- 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...
- Eldis Community
- The Eldis Community is a free on-line community where people can meet others involved in international development, discuss important issues and share useful resources. Membership and group creation is free: the service is financially supported by the Eldis donor group. On joining the Eldis Community, you can create your own profile, and thereby get yo...
- 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...
- What motivates individuals to become engaged in working for the public good?
- Development in Practice, 2008
- The question of what motivates individuals to become engaged in working for the public good is obviously central to the whole range of activities included in the term ‘development’. Yet the spark that ignites such voluntar...
- Special issue of Development in Practice covering participatory research and gender analysis
- Development in Practice, 2008
- This issue of the journal has a special focus on “Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis” , and aims to add value to the discussion of methodological, practical, philosophical, political, and instituti...
- How has 9/11affected donor policy and civil society?
- J. Howell; J. Lind / Development Studies Institute, LSE, 2008
- Through case studies of select bilateral development agencies (USAID, AusAID, DFID and SIDA), this paper explores changing policy and practice on civil society since 9/11. It identifies some emerging patterns and points out distinctio...
- Making the most of community based worker systems for effective service delivery
- P. Mbullu / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2007
- Many communities in Africa are largely dependent on services provided by local people rather than by external agencies, including government. Such services include traditional birth attendants, traditional healers, farmer to farmer ex...
- The way to successful community forestry in the Amazon
- G. Medina; B. Pokorny; B. Campbell / Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
- The opportunities to profit from commercialising forest products promise to improve livelihoods in the rural Amazon, but only if local communities have ownership over the ways in which their resources are exploited. This policy brief ...
- Has emissions trading been a success? A governance perspective
- M. Braun; T. Santarius / Wuppertal Institute, 2008
- Emissions trading has forged ahead as a climate policy instrument at several policy levels. The aim of the paper is to critically examine whether the rise in emissions trading policy instrument may be described as a ‘succes...
- Lessons from participatory monitoring programmes in tropical forests throughout the world
- K. Evans; M., R. Guariguata / Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
- In the past decade, understandings of the importance and role of monitoring in tropical forest management have changed significantly. Increasingly, participatory monitoring, via the involvement of local people, has come to be seen as ...
- Community wildlife management in Tanzania
- F. Nelson / Drylands Programme, IIED, 2007
- As the country known around the world as the home of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater, few natural resources are more closely associated with Tanzania than its wildlife populations. By the 1980s, Tanzania’s wildlife managemen...
- Enabling forest communities in Ghana to participate in benefits from timber
- D.M. Ayine / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- In Ghana, legislation requires logging firms to commit a portion of their financial resources towards the provision of social amenities to local forest communities. Logging firms must perform this legal obligation by signing and imple...
- Evaluating Indian self help groups
- R. B. Swain; A. Varghese / Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala, 2008
- In January 2008, Indian policymakers released a report on financial inclusion. This report reviewed various mechanisms including bank-correspondent models and traditional microfinance institutions. Of all the proposed delivery mechani...
- What lessons can the Brazilian health system offer?
- A. Cornwall / ID21 Health News, 2008
- Brazil’s Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a universal, rights-based national health system, uses innovative methods to involve ordinary citizens in shaping policy and holding the government accountable for delivery. T...
- How are major cities in East Asia responding to climate change?
- World Bank, 2008
- This primer is a guide for local governments in East Asia to help them understand the concepts and consequences of climate change and how climate change consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities. It describes what is ...
- 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.
