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Participatory approaches to integrated risk management
A. Holloway; R. Roomaney / PreventionWeb, 2008
Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range of municipal and development professio...
Countering the economic crisis in the Asia Pacific region
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2009
Responding to the current economic and financial crisis, which is severely affecting global trade, is an unprecedented challenge for policy makers of the Asia-Pacific region. The severity and speed of the downturn was largely unp...
Facilitating justice and peace negotiations
P. Hayner / The International Center for Transitional Justice, 2009
Questions of justice and accountability for past crimes can be a central point of contention in peace negotiations. This report provides guidance on grappling with justice issues in peace negotiations. The author addresses the pa...
How to protect traditional knowledge
World Intellectual Property Organization, 2009
Indigenous and local communities cherish traditional knowledge (TK) as a part of their cultural identities. The work of the WIPO Intergovernmental committee on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and fol...
What are the core policies that can prevent children and young people engaging in risky behaviour?
W. Cunningham; L. M. Cohan; S. Naudeau / World Bank, 2009
Young people constitute a disproportionately large part of the world’s poor, representing nearly nearly 60 percent of the poor in developing countries. This policy toolkit on youth at risk in middle-income countries ex...
Adverse health consequences of wars and natural disasters
F. Checchi; M. Gayer; R.F. Grais; E.J. Mills / Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2007
A considerable proportion of humanity is currently living in crisis conditions. This paper by the Humnitarian Practice Network argues that never before has it been clearer what interventions must be implemented to mitigate the adverse...
A guide to budgets for civil society organisations working in education
V Perry / Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2009
By analysing education financing, citizens can understand budget priorities and the factors that influence education expenditure. Budget analysis has been used in many countries to lobby governments to prioritise education in public s...
Community based planning and the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) in South Africa
I. Goldman; S. Chimbuya; K. Muthala / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2005
Community-based planning (CBP) is a specific form of ward planning involving all people in a ward which has been designed to promote community action and make the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) of a municipal area more people-centr...
How to monitor and evaluate national avian influenza programmes
E. Eckert; N. Hoffman; A. Hyslop / MEASURE Evaluation, 2008
As the world enters its sixth year of responding to the challenges posed by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the international community has recognized the need to move from an emergency mindset to a mid- to long-term perspec...
An educators guide to Crimes of War
J. Waldman / Human Rights Education Associates, 2007
Despite the advanced state of development of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, the world continues to witness heinous crimes of war. The development of these schools of legal thought has required a hig...
Items 21 to 30 of 73

Items 21 to 30 of 73

Participatory approaches to integrated risk management
A. Holloway; R. Roomaney / PreventionWeb, 2008
Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range of municipal and development professio...
Countering the economic crisis in the Asia Pacific region
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2009
Responding to the current economic and financial crisis, which is severely affecting global trade, is an unprecedented challenge for policy makers of the Asia-Pacific region. The severity and speed of the downturn was largely unp...
Facilitating justice and peace negotiations
P. Hayner / The International Center for Transitional Justice, 2009
Questions of justice and accountability for past crimes can be a central point of contention in peace negotiations. This report provides guidance on grappling with justice issues in peace negotiations. The author addresses the pa...
How to protect traditional knowledge
World Intellectual Property Organization, 2009
Indigenous and local communities cherish traditional knowledge (TK) as a part of their cultural identities. The work of the WIPO Intergovernmental committee on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and fol...
What are the core policies that can prevent children and young people engaging in risky behaviour?
W. Cunningham; L. M. Cohan; S. Naudeau / World Bank, 2009
Young people constitute a disproportionately large part of the world’s poor, representing nearly nearly 60 percent of the poor in developing countries. This policy toolkit on youth at risk in middle-income countries ex...
Adverse health consequences of wars and natural disasters
F. Checchi; M. Gayer; R.F. Grais; E.J. Mills / Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2007
A considerable proportion of humanity is currently living in crisis conditions. This paper by the Humnitarian Practice Network argues that never before has it been clearer what interventions must be implemented to mitigate the adverse...
A guide to budgets for civil society organisations working in education
V Perry / Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2009
By analysing education financing, citizens can understand budget priorities and the factors that influence education expenditure. Budget analysis has been used in many countries to lobby governments to prioritise education in public s...
Community based planning and the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) in South Africa
I. Goldman; S. Chimbuya; K. Muthala / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2005
Community-based planning (CBP) is a specific form of ward planning involving all people in a ward which has been designed to promote community action and make the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) of a municipal area more people-centr...
How to monitor and evaluate national avian influenza programmes
E. Eckert; N. Hoffman; A. Hyslop / MEASURE Evaluation, 2008
As the world enters its sixth year of responding to the challenges posed by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the international community has recognized the need to move from an emergency mindset to a mid- to long-term perspec...
An educators guide to Crimes of War
J. Waldman / Human Rights Education Associates, 2007
Despite the advanced state of development of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, the world continues to witness heinous crimes of war. The development of these schools of legal thought has required a hig...
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