- 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 ...
- Measuring a HIV and HSV2 prevention programme in South Africa
- R. Jewkes; M. Nduna; J. Levin / British Medical Journal, 2008
- Stepping Stones, a 50 hour programme, aims to improve sexual health by using participatory learning approaches to build knowledge, risk awareness, and communication skills and to stimulate critical reflection. This article in the Brit...
- Community Based Adaptation Exchange (CBA-X)
- Facilitating Community Based Adaptation exchange
- How can civil society promote peacebuilding in intractable conflicts?
- N. Mikhelidze; N. Pirozzi / Microcon, 2008
- Civil society can feel impotent in the midst of intransigent conflicts whose processes are dominated by top-level political actors. This is especially so where political space is limited by a dominating political administration; where...
- Community based planning and the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) in South Africa
- I. Goldman; S. Chimbuya; K. Muthala / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2005
- Community-based planning (CBP) is a specific form of ward planning involving all people in a ward which has been designed to promote community action and make the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) of a municipal area more people-centr...
- Community based maleria control
- P. Opiyo (ed); W.R. Mukabana (ed); I. Kiche (ed) / Malaria Journal, BioMed Central, 2007
- Malaria imposes a huge burden upon the health and economic development of tropical nations and has been identified as a major obstacle towards achieving several of the health-related Millennium Development Goals. This document outline...
- Can development philanthropy engender indigenous development?
- R.E. Daubon / Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2007
- The recent rise of the Gates Foundation as a major donor of overseas aid has focused attention on the role of private institutions in development. Traditionally solely a funder of programmes – rather than institutions i.e. &lsqu...
- How does climate change affect children in Nepal?
- D. Gautam; K. Oswald / Children in a Changing Climate, 2008
- How to involve marginalised people in health and development communication programmes
- M. Tapia; A. Brasington; L. Van Lith / International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2007
- Participation in health and development communication programmes can strengthen the voice of ordinary citizens and ensure their involvement in decisions that affect them, their families, and their communities. Those directly affected ...
- Applying a rights-based approach in CSO programming
- J. Kirkemann Boesen; T. Martin / The Danish Institute for Human Rights, 2007
- Rights-based development starts from the ethical position that all people are entitled to a certain standard in terms of material and spiritual wellbeing. It takes the side of people who suffer injustice by acknowledging their equal w...
- A training course on participatory forest management
- S Worah / Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
- Participatory and inclusive approaches to forest and Protected Area management are not new. They have been advocated by various groups including NGOs, academics and forest resource users for over two decades. However, the interpretati...
- Participatory Impact assessment for livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector
- A. Catley; J. Burns; D. Abebe; O. Suji / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
- The ability to define and measure humanitarian impact is essential to providing operational agencies with the tools to systematically evaluate the relative efficacy of various types of interventions. Institutionalising good practice i...
- The Chinese environmental movement: a comparative study of two cities
- L. Xie; P. Hob / Conservation and Society, 2008
- This article analyses the characteristics of the Chinese environmental movement in terms of their organisational development and strategies. A comparative study of two Chinese cases - Shanghai and Xiangfan - is conducted to illustrate...
- A partnership approach to tackling poverty
- S. Welford; J. Nelson; T. Viard / ATD Fourth World, 2008
- In order to tackle the persistent and increasing problem of poverty, it is necessary to concentrate on more than just economic growth or the improvement of social or welfare services. A partnership approach to tackling pover...
- Partnerships for sustainable development – a facilitation toolkit
- F. Lelo; A. Masika; S. Wasao; W. Shah / Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2006
- Partnerships bring all the stakeholders in a community together to support sustainable development initiatives and to develop a common vision for the community. This toolkit provides methods for facilitators on participatory planning ...
- How to implement participatory water monitoring
- The Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, 2008
- Participatory monitoring is one established and accepted way for the public to make informed decisions. Through the collection of data that is credible to multiple parties, participatory monitoring can become an essential instrument f...
- PRA Discussion List
- Discussion list, based at University of Guelph, on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and participatory community development. Includes any form of intentional change initiated and owned by community members. List is also archived on the PARnet WWW from 1994-1995 (see separate entry).
- Cornell Participatory Action Research Network (CPARN)
- Cornell University organises a Participatory Action Research network. Its function is to facilitate "the cooperative development and application of social research methods that accomplish both appropriate social change and the generation of new social knowledge for the benefit of all participants. PAR is a research methodology that acknowledges and capitalises on its role in affecting social chang...
- Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide (IKDM)
- Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor (IK&DM) was a journal that served the international development community and all scientists who share a professional interest in indigenous knowledge systems and practices (IKSP). The Monitor, produced by Nuffic-CIRAN in cooperation with the indigenous knowledge resource centres in various parts of the world, has two sections: articles and communicatio...
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- UK based NGO conducting research programmes on a range of sustainable development and environmental issues
- ActionAid International
- Aiming to overcome poverty and secure lasting improvements in the quality of peoples' lives
