- REDD+ Safeguards for Vietnam: Key Issues and the Way Forward
- T. Sikor / The Centre for People and Forests, 2012
- This brief discusses Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) safeguards in the context of Vietnam and makes recommendations for future action. It begins by outlining the Vietnamese context and the United N...
- The value of cultural theory for participatory processes in natural resource management
- A. Marjanke / Science Direct, 2012
- Participation is viewed as an important means for promoting the sustainable management of natural resources. However, it is not always successful. Conflicting values and power inequalities are all factors that can severely undermine p...
- Blurring the Boundaries: Citizenship Action Across States and Societies
- Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, IDS, 2011
- A ten-year research project has tried to re-think how we approach development by looking at nearly 150 examples from around the world of citizens taking action to influence the institutions that affect their lives. This project's summ...
- UN-REDD Viet Nam Programme: Piloting Participatory Carbon Monitoring
- 2011
- This policy brief outlines participatory carbon monitoring (PCM) pilots in Viet Nam. Developing countries undertaking REDD+ activities will need to provide evidence of “results-based action” in order to receive payments for ...
- Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership
- CARE International, 2011
- This policy brief, produced by Care International, outlines a bilateral Reduced Emissions form Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) pilot project – the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). The KFCP project ai...
- National Programme Document - Ecuador UN-REDD Programme
- D. Carrión 2011
- Document preparation for the implementation of REDD + mechanism in Ecuador. The UN REDD Programme in Ecuador presents six outcomes: (1) The design and implementation of a National Forest Monitoring System; (2) National implementation ...
- Cities on the Climate Change Initiative: Adaptation and mitigation to climate change strategy for Esmeraldas Canton
- T. Lozada Montero / United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2011
- The climate change strategy for the Esmeraldas Canton is a document that seeks to provide technical guidance to facilitate the design and implementation of policies and actions to combat the adverse impacts of climate change. It was d...
- Social accountability is an important feature of democratisation for transition countries in the Arab world
- J. Thindwa; M. Felicio; F. Bousquet / World Bank, 2011
- Social accountability (SA) is an approach to governance that involves citizens and civil society organisations (CSOs) in public decision-making and in holding governments accountable for its actions. This note deems that SA is, in ess...
- El proceso de Preparación para REDD+ en Mesoamérica: Actores, tendencias y temas críticos
- N. Cuellar / Programa Salvadoreño de investigación sobre desarrollo y medio mmbiente, 2011
- This report shows that the process of preparation for REDD in Mesoamerica is characterized for being relatively widespread, although there are enormous challenges regarding information, participation and consultation. In spite of the ...
- Vulnerabilidad y adaptación al cambio climático de los pobladores rurales de la planicie costera central de El Salvador
- M. Y. Aguilar 2007
- The purpose of this research was to develop, in conjunction with local stakeholders, a strategy on adaptation to climate change, based on an integrated assessment of the factors that determine the current climate vulnerability and fut...
- Cities on the Climate Change Initiative: Adaptation and mitigation to climate change strategy for Esmeraldas Canton
- T. Lozada Montero / United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2011
- The climate change strategy for the Esmeraldas Canton is a document that seeks to provide technical guidance to facilitate the design and implementation of policies and actions to combat the adverse impacts of climate change. It was d...
- Social accountability is an important feature of democratisation for transition countries in the Arab world
- J. Thindwa; M. Felicio; F. Bousquet / World Bank, 2011
- Social accountability (SA) is an approach to governance that involves citizens and civil society organisations (CSOs) in public decision-making and in holding governments accountable for its actions. This note deems that SA is, in ess...
- El proceso de Preparación para REDD+ en Mesoamérica: Actores, tendencias y temas críticos
- N. Cuellar / Programa Salvadoreño de investigación sobre desarrollo y medio mmbiente, 2011
- This report shows that the process of preparation for REDD in Mesoamerica is characterized for being relatively widespread, although there are enormous challenges regarding information, participation and consultation. In spite of the ...
- Vulnerabilidad y adaptación al cambio climático de los pobladores rurales de la planicie costera central de El Salvador
- M. Y. Aguilar 2007
- The purpose of this research was to develop, in conjunction with local stakeholders, a strategy on adaptation to climate change, based on an integrated assessment of the factors that determine the current climate vulnerability and fut...
- Integration in the spheres of social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
- C. Béné (ed); A. Newsham; A. de la Fuente / World Bank, 2012
- Awareness of the experiences of greater integration in social protection (SP), climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) has significantly increased in recent years. This document presents the discussions and r...
- Experiences of implementing climate change adaptation interventions in semi-arid Mozambique
- S. Midgley (ed); A. Dejene (ed); A. Mattick (ed) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- Southern Africa is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as droughts, floods and variable rainfall. Urgent action is required to strengthen resilience to respond to these threats. In response to this need, the Go...
- How political processes affect the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation strategies to water-related stress and hazards
- N. S. Pradhan (ed); V. R. Khadgi (ed); L. Schipper (ed) / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, 2012
- The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is predicted to be severely affected and socially vulnerable to climate change. This study delves into how political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation stra...
- Participatory Budgeting: Citizen Participation for Better Public Policies
- J. Oropeza / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011
- In the last two decades, Latin American countries have implemented participatory budgeting (PB) as a way to incorporate citizen perspective into budget designation, in order to increase public policies’ impact, enhance budget tr...
- Living on a Spike
- N Hossain / Oxfam, 2011
- The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 20...
- Stakeholder participation in agricultural research projects: a conceptual framework for reflection and decision-making
- A. Neef / Springerlink, 2010
- Recent discourse in the field of participatory agricultural research has focused on how to blend various forms and intensities of stakeholder participation with quality science, moving beyond the simple “farmer-first” ideo...
- Asociación de Investigación y Estudios Sociales / Association for Research and Social Studies, Guatemala (ASIES)
- Promoting scientific study and analysis of Guatemalan political, socioeconomic and cultural reality
- Policy Power tools
- Tools to influence policy in natural resource management
- South Asia Citizens Web
- Website hosting documents of interest to South Asia
- The African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS)
- Research, capacity building, and advocacy Institute
- Jean McNiff's web site
- Learning, sharing and creating new knowledge on action research
- Participation.Net
- Participation.net is a global, online space for sharing ideas about the participation of people in development, citizenship, governance and rights. It aims to give a voice to innovative ideas and views that will help to strengthen the involvement of marginalised people in decision-making, and to improve the performance and accountability of key institutions. Based at the Institute of Development...
- Participatory Epidemiology
- Participatory epidemiology website
- United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR)
- UN agency addresses and responds to disasters
- Ad Hoc Working Group on Youth and the MDGs
- Ad Hoc Working Group on Youth and the MDGs
- Montreal International Forum (FIM)
- NGO think tank aims to improve civil society influence on the UN and multilateral institutions
