- Understanding feminist movements
- S. Batliwala / Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
- How can an understanding of feminist movements in the current global context be achieved? This document presents 10 case studies from different regions of the world that have mobilized women to make a difference. Examples co...
- Enhancing accountability and engaging citizens in Brazil
- A. Cornwall; J. Romano; A. Shankland / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- Since the end of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the mid-1980s, democratic innovation has become the hallmark of this vibrant and populous country. Innovations in participatory governance, such as participatory budgeting and p...
- Supporting volunteer health workers in South Africa
- C. Campbell (ed); A. Gibbs (ed); S. Maimane (ed) / Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, 2008
- With the scarcity of African health professionals, volunteers are earmarked for an increased role in HIV/AIDS management, with a growing number of projects relying on grassroots community members to provide home nursing care to those ...
- Engaging citizens in governance
- A. Cornwall / Demos, 2008
- Citizen engagement has become an essential part of modern government. Governments around the world are starting to realise that engaging their citizens more in shaping the decisions that affect their everyday lives improves legitimacy...
- 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...
- Guide to advocacy campaigning using mobile phones
- M. Stein / MobileActive.org, 2007
- Speed is often critical in an advocacy campaign and mobile phones allow the rapid dissemination of messages to a network of supporters with specific calls for action. In the developing world, where internet access can be slow or limit...
- Improving development assistance support to local organisations
- D. Satterthwaite; G. Sauter / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- This publication is one in a series of case studies that reviews the experiences of local organisations in development and environmental management . It also examines the different kinds of external funding that best supported their e...
- Poverty reduction in a time of conflict: experiences fom Nepal
- N.N. Joshi; K. Dahal / Rural Reconstruction Nepal, 2009
- Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, recently witnessed a decade-long Maoist insurgency. Public service delivery became irregular, infrastructure fell into disarray and poor people’s livelihoods were disrupted. With...
- Strengthening multi-stakeholder funding mechanisms for agricultural R&D
- W. Heemskerk (ed); B. Wennink (ed) / Royal Tropical Institute, 2005
- This bulletin focuses on experiences in Tanzania and Benin with stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural research and development. This paper discusses how the reorganisation of funding mechanisms for agricultural innova...
- Tool for promoting treatment preparedness in HIV/AIDS communities
- S. Page; B. Gbaguidi; F. Nyakanda 2009
- Community learning processes are crucial to increasing resilience to HIV/AIDS in Africa’s remote rural areas. This paper describes experiences of using the “How to Live Positively” discovery-learning process to empow...
- Can participation reduce corruption?
- A. L. Jameel / Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, 2008
- What is the best way to control and measure corruption? This paper outlines a method devised by the author which measures corruption and uses it to evaluate alternative strategies to reduce corruption on an Indonesian road-building pr...
- CSOs, transparency and information: a tool for democratic ownership and accountability?
- C. Neligan; A. Iversen / GuideStar International, 2008
- This article argues that although the Paris Declaration is an important step in establishing an international consensus on aid, its ability to make aid work in the long term is questionable without the availability of publically avail...
- The court’s role in changing the political system
- Dembowski H. / Asia House, 2001
- This book deals with the concepts of good governance and related issues concerning the relationship between state and society, and specifically the viability of representative democracy. The question debated in current deve...
- How can civil society effectively monitor the security sector?
- E. Cole (ed); K. Eppert (ed); K. Kinzelbach (ed) / Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2008
- Governments tend to keep a tight reign on the security sector. Under pretexts of national security - especially in recourse to a ‘war on terror’ - the state’s security apparatus, and actions, are frequently closed to...
- Maximising the impact fo people's right to be heard
- C. Blaiser / Oxfam, 2009
- This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation in policy making and accountability. Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby ...
- Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS (MandE News)
- Internet based news service focusing on innovations in monitoring and evaluation methods that are relevant to development projects with social development objectives. Contents include: Coming Events Work in Progress New Documents Books Noted Editorial Current issue plus archives available on WWW. See also the Open Forum for reader's postings of information requests and M&E...
- Participation Group, IDS
- Group working in support of participatory approaches to development, an active part of an informal network of people and groups working on participatory questions around the globe. Based at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. WWW site includes: directory of world-wide participation networks; bibliography (with abstracts) of documents held in t...
- International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)
- IASCP is devoted to the study of institutions for the management of environmental resources (such as forests, oceans and land) held or used collectively by communities. The WWW site provides a wealth of information for scholars of common pool resources in diverse disciplines. It also seeks to allow an exchange of scholarship between members, researchers, students and other CPR practitioners. Publi...
- Indknow
- Discussion list carrying notices about publications, projects, ideas and questions of individuals and groups working to understand, validate and apply indigenous knowledge systems and traditional ecological knowledge. The list is facilitated by the Center for Indigenous Environment and Development (CIED), Seattle, Washington, USA; the Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Dev...
- Centre for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development (CIKARD)
- CIKARD is based at Iowa Univesity and focuses on preserving and using the knowledge of farmers and rural people around the globe to facilitate participatory and sustainable approaches to development. Its goal is to record indigenous knowledge and make it available to local communities, development professionals, scientists and scholars. CIKARD concentrates on four areas: indigenous innovations, k...
- Communities Online
- UK based site, initiated by International Association for Community Networking and Partnerships for Tomorrow, as an independent partnership to promote the use of the Internet and new information technology in community building. Partly funded by UK Government's IT Partnership Initiative, 'IT For All'. Main activity is the Communities Online Forum WWW site which includes mailing lists, news, a...
- Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network, FAO - SLU (FTP - FTPP)
- community forestry network
- Communication for Development, FAO SD Dimensions
- WWW site (part of FAO's Sustainable Development Dimensions programme: see separate entry). Provides information on FAO programme, publications and project in the development communication field. Includes: full text of policy on Internet development for rural development; rural radio policy; news items; summaries of FAO publications; list in publications/audio-visual tools form FAO; descriptions of...
- People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions
- WWW site maintained by the the FAO's Sustainable Development Department. Presents news, summary and full text materials on FAO programmes/policies related to participation.
- Capacity 21, UNDP
- Capacity 21 (in cooperation with UNDP and its Sustainable Development Networking Programme) aims to assist developing countries to build their capacity to integrate the principles of Agenda 21 (UNCED) into national development. It stresses multi-sector approaches, participation by all members of society, and the creation of a body of experience/expertise in capacity building and sustainable develo...
