- Empowerment as an approach to poverty
- G. Sen / Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1999
- This paper seeks to clarify the role of empowerment in anti-poverty policies by addressing the following questions: what is empowerment and how does it relate to participation and botom-up approaches? why is empowerment a useful conce...
- Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory
- Y. Karmokolias / International Finance Corporation, 1999
- Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exce...
- The Alexandria Business Association Small and Microenterprise Project, Egypt
- T. Dichter / Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1988
- This case study is designed to go behind the financial data (which show that ABA is indeed moving to financial sustainability) and place the project within the culture of the microfinance world as presently constituted. In so doing, i...
- Electronic Learning Guidebook on Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM)
- World Bank Institute, World Bank, 1998
- Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) refers to the involvement of irrigation users in all aspects of irrigation management, and at all levels. This electronic learning guidebook is a self-paced learning tool for acquiring knowled...
- Where is Local Government Going in Latin America?: a comparative perspective
- A. Nickson / International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
- A major process of decentralisation has been under way in Latin America since the mid-1980s. The reasons for it have been extensively debated. The main features of this process, including greater formal political autonomy for and fina...
- Mexican Local Government in Transition, Fleeting Changes or Permanent Transformation?
- Enrique Cabrero Mendoza / International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
- In recent years, several innovation processes have taken place within Mexican Local Government: in the leadership style of mayors, in social participation mechanisms, in intergovernmental relations, and in public management systems. T...
- The Importance of the Local Government in the Management of the Costal Line in Chile: The case of the Sixth Region
- A. Sanchez; R. Vidal / International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
- Paper on the legal and policy issues relating to the integrated management of the coastal area of Chile.
- Children are the most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
- M. Lyons / HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
- The impact of HIV/AIDS extends beyond those living with the virus, as each infection produces consequences which affect the lives of the family, friends and communities surrounding an infected person. The overall impact of the epidemi...
- Participation and Sustainability: Partners in Conflict?: The Case of the East Usambara Catchment Forestry Project (EUCFP), Tanzania
- E.T. Mallya / Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998
- Discusses the concepts of participation and sustainability and how we see them in the context of the EUCFP
- Donors and Poverty in Lindi and Mtwara, Tanzania
- N.N. Luanda / Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998
- The paper sets out to make some preliminary observations on donor, especially Finnish, attempts at alleviating poverty in Lindi and Mtwara regions. It makes a case for the need for research and practical thought about poverty. The pap...
- The Habitat Agenda: Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 1999
- A New Role for Men: Partners for Women's Empowerment
- United Nations Population Fund, 1999
- This booklet calls for men to assume their responsibilities as fathers and play a decisive role as supportive parents and husbands. Broader men's involvement in fatherhood is a key to empowering women and to improving the bond between...
- Participation, "process" and management: lessons for development in the history of organisation development
- B. Cooke / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999
- Participatory and process driven social interventions have a history that dates back to before 1945. Hitherto this history has been presented within management theory as that of Organisation Development (OD). An alternative history of...
- Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares
- Doris J. Jansen; Andrew Rukovo / OECD Development Centre, 1992
- The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural poli...
- The lesson from Mahenye: Rural poverty, democracy and wildlife conservation [Campfire Programme]
- M. Murphree / Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
- [This document is hosted by Resource Africa]
- Share and share alike? Equity in CAMPFIRE
- S. Thomas / Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
- [This document is hosted by Resource Africa]
- Lacking confidence? A gender-sensitive analysis of CAMPFIRE in Masoka village.
- N. Nabane / Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
- [This document is hosted on Resource Africa]
- The legacy of dualism in decision-making within CAMPFIRE
- S. Thomas / Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
- [This document is hosted by Resource Africa]
- Two views from CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe's Hurungwe District: Training & motivation. Who benefits & who doesn't
- C. Bird; S. Metcalfe / Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
- [This document is hosted by Resource Africa]
- Was Mrs Mutendi only joking? Access to timber in Zimbabwe's communal areas. [Campfire Programme]
- C. Bird; C. Clarke; J Moyo; JM Moyo; P. Nyakunu; S. Thomas / Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
- 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.
