- Tanzanian Local Administration: A Vehicle for Democratic Development?
- P. Seppälä / Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998
- Argues that the role of local government administratorsis a crucial one. If the administrators are well motivated, the administration is able to function properly, even when the resources are limited. If the administrators are not giv...
- The Information Society and Development: the Role of the European Union
- Information Society Project Office, EU, 1997
- Recent trends towards the information society potentially concern most human activities, including learning, communication, work and leisure. This applies equally to the developing countries, notwithstanding the diversity of their mar...
- Hardship in the midst of plenty [Homelessness in developed countries]
- P. Alston / The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
- Throughout history, homelessness has been a haunting human fear. In every century, disasters, whether the result of human actions or of nature, have left behind troops of wanderers: men, women and children with no space to claim as th...
- The Progress of Nations Report 1998
- The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
- Points out that society has largely overlooked the vulnerabilities of adolescence in developing countries -- and that young people, who make up one sixth of the people on earth, need the support of their elders if they are to fulfil t...
- National social statistical profiles, 1997
- The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
- Birth registration: civil rights and league tables
- Unity Dow / The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
- A birth certificate is a child's proof of identity and represents the first acknowledgement of his or her significance to the country. Proof of birth is needed for a number of services, and it offers a degree of legal protection. But ...
- Immunization: Going the extra mile
- R.H. Henderson / The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
- Immunization is the greatest public health success story in history. Between 1980 and 1990, a massive effort raised coverage rates world wide from 5 per cent to 80 per cent. But just as a new generation of vaccines is about to come on...
- Behavior Change [in relation to AIDS/HIV]: A Summary of Four Major Theories
- Family Health International, 1996
- How does behavior change occur? This question probably has as many answers as there are diverse populations and cultures. Every HIV prevention program, however, is based on those answers -- theories about why people change their behav...
- Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia
- S Paulson; ME Gisbert; M Quiton / Family Health International, 1996
- Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design...
- The Impact of Family Planning and Reproductive Health on Women's Lives: A Conceptual Framework
- K Hardee; P Ulin; S Pfannenschmidt; C Visness / Family Health International, 1996
- The framework examines women's use and non-use of family planning, their pregnancy and childbearing experiences, their experiences with family planning programs, and their experiences with other reproductive health services. Also, the...
- Political ecologies of scale: The multi-tiered co-management of Zimbabwean wildlife resources. [Campfire Programme]
- Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
- [This document is hosted by Resource Africa]
- From liability to asset: Wildlife in the Omay Communal Land of Zimbabwe. [Campfire Programme]
- R. Taylor / Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
- [This document is hosted by Resource Africa]
- UNICEF statistical tables on child / social welfare
- United Nations Children's Fund, 1999
- Country level statistical data on major child welfare issues, including life expectancy, crude birth and death rates, infant mortality rates, child growth rates, ORT usage, maternal mortality, fertility rate, GNP, education (enrollmen...
- Riverlink: directory of NGOs in river and watershed issues
- International Rivers Network, 1999
- Riverworks is a directory of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), activists and experts working on river and watershed issues around the world. It is constantly updated and printed upon request. Riverworks is produced by Internation...
- Human Population, Biodiversity and Protected Areas: Science and Policy Issues
- V. Dompka / American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997
- Proceedings from a 1995 meeting, including overview papers, case studies from Kenya, India, Indonesia, Colombia, Ecuador and the United States, and specific recommendations.
- Building China's Information Technology Industry: Tariff Policy and China's Accession to the WTO
- M. Borrus; S.S. Cohen / Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1997
- A major issue that remains open both with respect to China's participation in the ITA and its accession to the WTO is the speed of tariff liberalization that China will commit to in these negotiations. We argue in this paper that, at ...
- 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...
- 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.
