- Market Based Instruments For Environmental Policymaking In Latin America And The Caribbean: Lessons From Eleven Countries
- R.M. Huber; J. Ruitenbeek; R. Serôa Da Motta / New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1998
- Study of market-based instruments, focusing on 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela) and a cross-section of iss...
- Empirically investigating relationships between real wealth and experimental cooperation in Colombia
- J.C. Cardenas / Global Development Network, 2000
- This paper explores how wealth and inequality can affect the effectiveness of self-governed solutions to commons dilemmas by constraining groups cooperation. The report lokks at a series of common-pool resource experiments cond...
- Reasons for resiliency: toward a sustainable recovery after Hurricane Mitch
- World Neighbors, 2000
- Report presents the methods and findings of an action research effort to measure and compare the impact of Hurricane Mitch on conventionally and agroecologically farmed lands in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The project included...
- Gender and Participation in Agricultural Development Planning
- Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 1999
- Based on documentation produced for a "Workshop on Gender and Participation in Agricultural Planning: Harvesting Best Practices", held in Rome on 8 -12 December, 1997. The workshop was organized by the FAO Women in Development Service...
- Notes on Consultancy and Research in Africa
- T. Mkandawire / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Contestation over Political Space: The State and Demobilisation of Party Politics in Kenya
- K. Kanyinga / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Appraises political liberalization and subsequent contestation over political space in Kenya. The discussion centres on how, from the colonial period, elite politics have precluded organization and crystallization of popular democracy...
- The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond
- Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the ori...
- Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects
- Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale wat...
- Urban governance: why gender matters
- J. Beall / Gender in Development Programme, UNDP, 1996
- Deals with the themes of participation and partnership in urban governance, a concept which refers to both government responsibility and civic engagement. It is informed by the premise that participation in political or organisational...
- Gendered governance: an agenda for change
- G. Ashworth / Gender in Development Programme, UNDP, 1996
- A gendered analysis of governance exposes the reality and severity of women's subordination. In so doing, it challenges power structures and encounters resistance. But it may also generate an agenda for change, which recognises that c...
- A new global partnership: eradicate poverty and transform economies through sustainable development
- 2013
- The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda's report sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 through sustainable development. In the report, the Panel calls for the new post-2015 goals to drive fi...
- Case studies exploring climate change impacts on indigenous peoples in Namibia and their adaptation strategies
- U. Dieckmann; W. Odendaal; J. Tarr; A. Schreij / Legal Assistance Centre, 2013
- Through two participatory case studies, this paper examines the impact of climate change on the indigenous peoples of Namibia. The objectives of the case studies are three-fold: to document how the indigenous peoples are affected by c...
- Community participation in water and sanitation programmes
- 2013
- Gram Vikas is a voluntary organisation working in the eastern state of Orissa in India since 1979. Through the process of MANTRA (Movement and Action Network for Transformation of Rural Areas), it has been implementing a water and san...
- Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces
- Zed Books, 2013
- This chapter from the book, 'Spaces for Change: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas' discusses the gendered construction of participation in local institutions created by the state in India to promote develo...
- Learning Document Series 11-13
- 2013
- This document series contains three development alternatives. The first alternative talks about formation of ‘participatory video’ team, what it takes to be ‘participatory’ and how to proceed in terms of research, ...
- Social change through the info lady experience
- 2012
- This paper looks at the formation of groups and sustainability through an innovative model of ICT-based rural women's entrepeneurship in Bangladesh, known as the Info Lady Model. It looks at the selection and training of these Info La...
- Higher education and community engagement: innovative practices and challenges across ASEAN and Asia
- S. Gill 2013
- This paper is expanded from selected presentations and discussions during the 2nd UKM-AUN Regional Forum on University Social Responsibility and Sustainability (USR&S), 9th – 11th May 2011. It serves as a resource of innovati...
- AsiaEngage Conference Report 2012
- 2012
- Following the Regional Conference on Higher-Education-Community-Industry Engagement held on the 7th to 9th of May 2012, a report was subsequently written to capture the important outcomes and issues which arose from the event. The rep...
- MGNREGA Consultation Report
- 2012
- This document is a report on state level MGNREGA consultation organised by Institute of Rural Research and Development at Gurgaon in June 2012. 100 people including government officials, elected panchayat representatives, villagers an...
- Beyond NGO engagement: community mobilisation and participation for sustained development
- 2012
- This paper sets out to trace the genesis of community participation and engagement in development programmes, interaction between development organisations and the community, and the subsequent sustained participation of these communi...
- 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.
