- Declaration and plan of action for the development of rural radio in Africa (FAO)
- Communication for Development, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
- Manual on public participation in environmental decision making (REC)
- Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary, 1999
- Improving Girls' Education in Guatemala
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Evaluation of USAID project. Demonstrated that improving educational quality is the best approach to enhancing girls’ participation. With Agency support, private sector actors improved scholarship programs and gave visibility to ...
- Promoting Primary Education for Girls in Pakistan
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Evaluation of USAID programme aimed at improving women’s education. Girls’ enrollments more than tripled in Balochistan and more than doubled in North-West Frontier Province. Boys’ education also benefited. The program ...
- Promoting Education for Girls in Nepal
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1998
- Evaluation of USAID programme. Although their impact is difficult to isolate and measure, programs aimed at empowering and educating Nepalese women appear to enhance the education of both girls and boys. Concludes that ...
- Format for appraisal of microfinance institutions
- R.P. Christen; B. Helms; R. Rosenberg / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- This Appraisal Format facilitates a complete diagnosis of a micro-finance institutions operations - ranging from governance to funding methodology to financial performance. It assumes a high level of participation on the part of MFI s...
- Reducing wood consumption campaign (FOE)
- Friends of the Earth, 1999
- Who counts reality?: participatory monitoring and evaluation: a literature review
- M. Estrella; J. Gaventa / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- With more and more opportunities to promote broad-based participation in development, there is increased recognition that monitoring and evaluation should also be participatory. This paper presents a literature review of experiences i...
- How can participatory approaches improve the practice of veterinary epidemiology?
- A. Catley; J. Mariner / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
- This paper provides an overview of recent experiences with the use of participatory approaches and methods to understand livestock diseases in pastoral areas. These experiences include the emergence of participatory epidemiology as a ...
- Contact addresses for organizations publishing on participation (IDS)
- Participation abstracts and document collection, IDS, 1999
- Policy reform as collective action
- Omotunde E. G Johnson / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Potential output growth in emerging market countries : the case of Chile
- J. E. Roldios / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Two issues related to emerging market countries have recurred in recent years. The first is whether their past high rates of growth are sustainable in the medium run, and the second is whether these rates could lead to overheating pre...
- Scaling up Participatory Watershed Development in India: The Case of the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP)
- J. Farrington; C. Lobo / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- For several years prior to the full start-up of the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP), its architects were driven by one principal concern: that participatory watershed development should be replicable over wide area...
- Neglected Species, Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Difficult Areas: How should the Public Sector Respond?
- R. Blench / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Recent research on neglected crop and animal species suggests that there exists an important gap between the priorities of development and research agencies and the way small farmers, both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, treat s...
- The Role of Agricultural Education in Improving the Performance of Support Services for the Renewable Natural Resources Sector
- I. Wallace; E. Nilsson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Whilst recent research (mainly in sub-Saharan Africa) has indicated a number of successful innovations in agricultural education and training (AET), it has generally been unresponsive to changing patterns of demand for trainees, which...
- Desertification and drought - extent and consequences proposal for a participatory approach to combat desertification
- FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification, 1995
- Participation of developing countries in world trade: overview of major trends and underlying factors
- World Trade Organization, 1996
- This paper provides an overview of major trends in the participation of developing countries in world trade over the past two decades, followed by a brief examination of some of the key factors that were associated with trends for dif...
- Halting degradation of natural resources: is there a role for rural communities?
- J. M. Baland; J. P. Platteau / FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification, 1996
- Participatory Action Research : Getting the Job Done
- K. Seymour-Rolls; I. Hughes / Action Research on Web, 1999
- This paper seeks to: 1.Describe PAR using a conceptual framework - The Moments by Definition 2.Provide a working framework to undertake PAR - The Moments by Method : 3.Propose a research project utili...
- Community based conservation
- M.C.J. Cruz / American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
- This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be pa...
- BetterEvaluation
- BetterEvaluation is an international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing information about options (methods or tools) and approaches. It offers online tools and materials organised into tasks: Approaches, Themes and Resources.
- Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
- A non-profit, independent research, policy and outreach organisation working towards achieving sustainable development in the Amazon region
- Forestry Nepal
- Gateway to forestry information on Nepal.
- Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)
- Center for Participatory Research and Development is an independent, non-profit policy, research and implementation institute.
- Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)
- AIDA is a non-profit environmental law organisation that works across international borders to defend threatened ecosystems and the human communities that depend on them.
- Latin American Platform on Climate (LAPC)
- Latin American Platform on Climate (LAPC) is formed of 17 civil society organisations committed to finding answers to climate change challenges in the region.
- Centre for Social Markets, India (CSM)
- The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) promotes a progressive social and environmental agenda by harnessing the power and potential of markets, entrepreneurs and other economic actors to do good. CSM's mission is to change the culture of markets and other social institutions to advance social justice, human rights and sustainable development. Such a culture change will not be possible with...
- Practice In Participation
- Participatory portal for community-based practices
- INFOCON
- INFOCON aims to promote a better understanding of how Civil Society Organisations representing Transnational Communities can work on preventing and resolving conflicts in Europe and worldwide. Financed by the EU under the Seventh Framework Programme, this three-year research project was launched in April 2008.
- Localis (http://localis.org.uk/)
- Localis is an independent think-tank based in Westminster, dedicated to issues related to local government and localism. Since its formation it has produced research on a variety of issues including housing, the reform of regional government, innovation in services and local government finance.
