- African Monitor
- As a Pan-African body established in 2006, African Monitor aims to assess the link between: The adequacy and appropriateness of the development processes and commitments The extent to which specific development pledges by African governments and their international partners are being kept The extent to which the implementation of development commitmen...
- Supporting the creation and mobilisation of practial knowledge for social change
- J.M. Chevalier; D.J. Buckles / International Development Research Centre, 2008
- Social issues should be addressed socially and in multi-stakeholder mode, not by private interest and experts alone in processes of knowledge production, planning and decision making. This guide is an important step in the creation an...
- Supporting southern CSOs in their engagement with aid issues
- F. Schmidjell (ed); L. Leyser (ed); J. Mang (ed) / Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, 2009
- This is a Summary Report of a Panel Discussion on 'Civil Society and the New Aid Architecture' and an Expert Workshop on 'Budget Support and Civil Society Participation' held in Vienna in January 2009. The Panel Discussion focuses on ...
- How to facilitate participatory processes with multiple stakeholders
- D. Bradley; H. Schneider / Voluntary Service Overseas, 2004
- The benefits of participatory approaches can only be felt if all those involved have a common understanding and set of expectations. This guide, designed for volunteers, partner organisations and staff, is based on VSO’s experie...
- Reviewing participatory mapping - what works and what doesn't
- J. Corbett / International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2009
- Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local communities, highlighting important soci...
- Engaging with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 2009
- F. Sheahan / Plan International, 2008
- Civil society organisations can play an important part and bring value to the work of the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) in its mission to promote and protect the rights of the child. For a...
- Involving men to tackle gender based violence
- A. Eriksson / African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2009
- How can we tackle gender based violence? In 2001, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) created an African network of male activists against gender-based violence. The project “Men for Gender E...
- Children's participation in responses to HIV and AIDS
- R. Vincent / Panos Institute, London, 2009
- This document looks at the involvement of children, including young children, in responses to HIV and AIDS and examines issues around children's participation. It explores the challenges of enabling children to express their views and...
- Learning about and facilitating organisational change
- The Barefoot Collective, 2009
- This is a practical do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways. The guide, with its supporting website, includes tried and tested c...
- Enthusiasm for peace in Nepal
- N. Jones; B. Bhatta; G. Gill / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2009
- Latent and violent unrest has plagued Nepal since the process of parliamentary politics was reintroduced in 1991 after 50 years of monarchical rule. This document focuses on grassroots experiences and understandings of governance and ...
- Informal accountability in Bangladesh
- N. Hossain / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
- The massive expansion of social service provision in the 1990s in Bangladesh has meant the state is now a larger presence in the lives of the poor. The terms though of its interaction with those citizens remain largely unreformed, mor...
- Re-defining security: reflecting the differing needs of different sectors of society
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
- Ruling administrations often determine security policy and direct its apparatus for the 'benefit of society'. But is security something to be grateful for, or a citizens’ right? Rather should security be determined by the concer...
- 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...
- Is participatory conservation a solution for protected areas?
- T. Haller; M. Galvin / NCCR North South, 2009
- This book is a synthesis of papers on sustainable conservation in protected areas (PA). It presents a series of papers that provide comprehensive information on 13 PAs: 4 in Latin America, 5 in Africa, 3 in Asia and 1 in Switzerland. ...
- Children as risk communicators and agents of change in DRR programmes: El Salvador and the Philippines
- T. Tanner; T. Mitchell; K. Haynes / Children in a Changing Climate, 2009
- This paper explores children’s voices in disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy spaces and their capacity to communicate disaster risk to their parents and larger community. It challenges the traditional development approaches whi...
- Impact of decentralisation on governance and citizen participation in Tanzania
- A. Chaligha / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2008
- This report analyses data on local autonomy and citizen participation from six case councils in Tanzania, for the period 2000-2004.The data covers citizen’s perceptions of their involvement in the planning process; the perceptio...
- Civil society participation in Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
- K. Bird; S. Busse; E. Mendizabal / Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, United Nations Development Programme, 2007
- Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is widely used as an analytical tool in policy-making processes. However, there is a concern about the lack of involvement of civil society in the design, formulation and implementation of PSI...
- Challenges of constitution making: the case of Nepal
- Y. Ghai (ed); J. Cottrell (ed) / International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2008
- This document serves as a guide to constitution making in Nepal. It provides a brief history of past constitutions in Nepal, including an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the 1990 Constitution, to enable a better understa...
- How effective is civil society engagement in PRSP process?
- Z. Curran / Overseas Development Institute, 2005
- This synthesis study looks at civil society’s participation in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process. Taking the examples of Bolivia and Tanzania, the study looks in more detail at the evidence used by Civil Societ...
- Does political participation enhance happiness?
- R. Weitz-Shapiro (ed); M.S. Winters (ed) / Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2008
- This paper discusses the results of a study in Latin America on the relationship between political participation and well-being. It reviews the theoretical literature on procedural utility and the broad psychological benefits of polit...
- Community Development Foundation, UK (CDF)
- UK based NGO aiming to strengthen communities by ensuring the effective participation of imespeople in the decision making processes which affect their lives. WWW includes full text reports
- Partnerships Online
- Two related UK organisations working on using the Internet to change organisations, build partnerships and benefit communities. WWW sites documents experience [UK bias], has full text manuals on community involvement and training materials.
- Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative, World Bank (SAPRI)
- Programme aiming at a participatory evaluation of adjustment with NGOs, Citizen Groups, The World Bank, and Governments in Bangladesh, Ecuador, Ghana, Hungary, Mali, Uganda and Zimbabwe. WWW site has overview of programme, reports on its methodology, summaries of workshop conclusions, bibliography on structural adjustment, country level reports.
- International & Cross-Cultural Evaluation Topical Interest Group (I&CCE)
- Provides evaluation professionals who are interested in developing country and cross-cultural issues with an opportunity to share their experiences with each other. Affiliated to the American Evaluation Association. WWW site includes listing of job opportunities in the sector. Also operates a discussion list called XC-eval
- Participatory Research and Adaptive Natural Resource Management, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
- New Zealand organisation working cooperatively with land managers, communities and policy makers to help the identification and introduction of more sustainable resource management practices. WWW site includes background materials on their Integrated Systems for Knowledge Management (ISKM) model (developed by Allen and Bosch) and links to related sites.
- Institute of Health Promotion Research, University of British Columbia
- Focusses on research, education and communitypartnerships in health promotion
- Action Research on Web (AROW)
- WWW site from the University of Sydney. Includes information on its distance-education (online) course on action research and a collection of full-text papers.
- Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE)
- CAMPFIRE is an exploration of rural development and conservation in Africa. It seeks to restructure the control of Zimbabwe's countryside, giving people alternative ways of using their natural resources. CAMPFIRE, designed and managed entirely by Africans, emerged in the mid-1980's with the recognition that as long as wildlife remained the property of the state no one would invest in it as a re...
- International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)
- IIRR is a nonprofit, nongovernment organization devoted to improving the quality of life of the rural poor in the developing nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1960, IIRR grew out of the revolutionary, grass-roots development movement founded by Dr. Y. C. James Yen in the 1920s in China. Beginning with a series of massive, highly successful literacy campaigns for peasants, D...
- Sociological Research Online
- Full text electronic journal, available (free) on WWW. Sociological Research Online publishes high quality applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates. WWW site lists articles by volume and broad topic. Includes links to related WWW sites
