- Stanhope Centre
- The Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research is a London-based forum for open dialogue and scholarship related to media law and policy around the world. A significant emphasis is on engaging graduate students on these issues. The Stanhope Centre seeks to bring together scholars, experts, lawyers and graduate students in a variety of academic disciplines in London and internationally, in...
- Implementing sustainable public procurement
- M. Kjöllerström / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2008
- This brief examines the reasons behind the current drive towards sustainable public procurement (SPP), and the barriers that have to be overcome in order to implement it. It also looks at the key benefits and methods involved in SPP a...
- Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG)
- Activists advocating policy dialogue and change in attitudes in Bangladesh
- Training trainers in data collection and participatory research
- A. Shillingford / Caribbean Development Bank, 2006
- Developing training which combines development and empowerment with research can be challenging. According to the author of this manual, this is the situation in the Caribbean, where attempts are being made to do both using Parti...
- Using participatory agricultural research approaches to create client-responsive, impact-oriented institutions
- Aden A. Aw-Hassan / Development in Practice, 2008
- The popularity of participatory research approaches is largely driven by the expected benefits from bridging the gap between formal agricultural science institutions and local farm communities, making agricultural research more releva...
- Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
- Delia Grace; Tom Randolph; Janice Olawoye; Erastus Kang'ethe / Development in Practice, 2008
- Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-valu...
- Literature review of value of participatory research
- Nina Lilja; Mauricio Bellon / Development in Practice, 2008
- This article reviews, through reference to the published literature, some key questions about participatory research: When should participatory research be used? How should participatory research be applied? ...
- Developing countries must join forces to particiapte in global trade governance to reduce global inequalities
- V.P.B. Yu / South Centre, 2008
- This paper from the South Centre is concerned with the widening development gap in the setting of new international policy regimes and a changing global economic environment. Global income inequality matters for economic and social st...
- Participation in Rio de Janeiro
- U.M. Butler; M. Princeswal / LSE Research Online, 2008
- Recently there has been increased enthusiasm for the participation of children and young people in various sectors of society. This has resulted in an emerging critique of the use and abuse of terms such as ‘participation&r...
- How does aid and foreign policy impact on civil society in Afghanistan?
- J. Howell; J. Lind / Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 2008
- Afghanistan has become the first theatre in which the USA’s seemingly contradictory goals of the War on Terror and the promotion of liberal democracy and free markets are being played out to their full. This paper examines the i...
- Steps to becoming climate neutral
- A Kirby / Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
- This guide advises how to live a greener and cleaner life. Its particular focus is on carbon neutrality. The guide aims to explain in practical terms how individuals, corporations, cities and countries can start to change. ...
- Improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health
- United Nations Population Fund, 2007
- Involving communities in development is good practice, because community members know their own needs and understand issues that influence their health. For more than 35 years, community involvement has been seen as essential to the s...
- Bee-keeping in Southern Ethiopia: development interventions must recognise indigenous knoweldge
- A. Shiferaw; B. Dindamo; K. Berhe; A. Tegegne; D. Hoekstra / International Livestock Research Institute, 2008
- Honey is one of the priority commodities of the Alaba special woreda (district) of Southern Ethiopia. While indigenous knowledge provides the cultural basis for bee-keeping in the woreda, efforts are also now being made to boost honey...
- Community based disaster preparedness in the Philippines
- K. Falk (ed); L. Nørgaard (ed); J. MacLean (ed) / ProVention Consortium, 2005
- During the past decade less people have died in natural disasters, but more and more lives and livelihoods are affected by the negative consequences of them. The increase is steep, triggered by more frequent extreme weather conditions...
- How to promote youth participation through stakeholder collaboration
- A. Erich / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2008
- The majority of the world population is young and lives in poor countries. These young people face multiple challenges like unemployment, the erosion of family settings, the impact of risky sexual behaviour, and the effects of s...
- How have China's development policies impacted Tibeten pastoralists?
- M. Foggin / Plateau Perspectives, 2008
- Tibetan grasslands constitute one of the most important grazing ecosystems in the world and encompass the source areas of many major Asian rivers. While a variety of government policies have been applied in recent years to protect the...
- Understanding participatory approaches to aid targeting
- D. Maxwell; J. Burns / Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, 2008
- With a focus on Southern Sudan, this paper examines community participation through the food aid program cycle, both retrospectively (during the war) and currently. It aims to investigate the participation of recipient community in th...
- Barriers to effective citizenship in Bangladesh
- Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
- In the Bengali- speaking nation of Bangladesh today are a small number of Urdu speakers. Many have been there for generations having migrated from the State of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal in Indian colonial times. This short ...
- Climate change and sub-Saharan Africa: points of vulnerability and potential for adaptation
- H. Connor; L. Mqadi; P. Mukheibir / HELIO International, 2007
- Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to climate change. There is an urgent nee...
- Participatory conservation in protected areas: lessons learnt from 13 case studies
- M. Galvin (ed); T. Haller (ed) / NCCR North South, 2008
- This document compares findings from in-depth research on protected area (PA) management in Latin America Africa, Asia and Europe. It describes how PAs have been managed over the last 50-100 years and considers the ecological, social ...
- 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.
