- 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...
- How People Face Evictions: Lessons from people-led initiatives
- Y. Cabannes / Development Planning Unit, University College London [UCL], 2010
- Forced and market-driven evictions are increasing dramatically worldwide, with devastating effects on millions of children, women and men across the globe. Despite this negative trend, however, many people-led initiatives have been su...
- ILO Participatory Gender Audit: relevance and use for the United Nations and its agencies
- International Labour Organization, 2012
- The ILO has designed a tool – the Participatory Gender Audit (PGA) – that lends itself particularly well to providing a comprehensive picture of any given organization’s progress in gender mainstreaming. This publicatio...
- Community Centers for Community Development: A Case Study of Dhaka City
- F Yasmin 2008
- Like the developed countries city corporations and municipalities of Bangladesh too bear the responsibility of providing community facilities to the urban mass. Among various facilities, community center is one of the prime civic faci...
- Realising the Right to Development in Bangladesh: Progress and Challenges
- S R Osmani / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2010
- By signing and ratifying various human rights instruments, the State of Bangladesh has committed itself to pursuing socio-economic policies in a way that would promote its people’s right to development, understood as integrated ...
- How People Face Evictions: Lessons from people-led initiatives
- Y. Cabannes / Development Planning Unit, University College London [UCL], 2010
- Forced and market-driven evictions are increasing dramatically worldwide, with devastating effects on millions of children, women and men across the globe. Despite this negative trend, however, many people-led initiatives have been su...
- ILO Participatory Gender Audit: relevance and use for the United Nations and its agencies
- International Labour Organization, 2012
- The ILO has designed a tool – the Participatory Gender Audit (PGA) – that lends itself particularly well to providing a comprehensive picture of any given organization’s progress in gender mainstreaming. This publicatio...
- Community Centers for Community Development: A Case Study of Dhaka City
- F Yasmin 2008
- Like the developed countries city corporations and municipalities of Bangladesh too bear the responsibility of providing community facilities to the urban mass. Among various facilities, community center is one of the prime civic faci...
- Realising the Right to Development in Bangladesh: Progress and Challenges
- S R Osmani / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2010
- By signing and ratifying various human rights instruments, the State of Bangladesh has committed itself to pursuing socio-economic policies in a way that would promote its people’s right to development, understood as integrated ...
- Gender mainstreaming in emergency management: facilitator notes
- E. Enarson 2012
- This manual supports a half- day workshop, but is easily adapted to shorter or longer periods. It can also be used as a self-study guide. It is designed to be highly participatory, with a range of suggested activities that invite dial...
- Guidelines for incorporating free, prior and informed consent into REDD+ projects
- P. Anderson / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2011
- The right for indigenous people to give or withhold their free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) has recently been strengthened through the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. These guideli...
- How water management practices must adapt in the Americas
- Water and Climate Change in the Americas, 2012
- This solutions document, a product of the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change Adaptation in the Americas (comprised of 21 different agencies), seeks to address the ways in which water management practices must cha...
- Fire Hazard Management of Dhaka City: Addressing Issues Relating to Institutional Capacity and Public Perception
- M.M. Islam 2008
- City dwellers has been increased due to reckless building construction and nonconformation of Fire Protection Act, 2003. Dhaka City has been experiencing many fire accidents at present and in most cases lack of proper precautionary me...
- A training guide that promotes gender-responsive and socially-sensitive climate change research and development in the agriculture and food security sectors through participatory approaches.
- S. Nelson (ed); M. Chaudhury (ed); H. Tranberg (ed) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- Together, both women and men play a significant role in safeguarding food security. It is important to understand their respective roles and responsibilities to ensure that they benefit equally from climate-smart agriculture practices...
- A Guideline for Environmentally and Socially Responsible Business Practices in the Financial Sector
- A Raihan / Development Research Network, 2007
- Environmentally and socially responsible businesses are closely related to corporate governance which in turn concentrates in providing a balance between economic and social goals to promote and support the proficient use of resources...
- Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)
- Asian Pacific coalition to empower women in politics and decision-making
- Heinrich Boell Foundation
- Political foundation associated with the German Green Party
- Community Problem Solving Network
- Web project teachers community problem-solving skills
- Sustaining Local Food Systems: Agricultural Diversity and Livelihoods Programme (IIED)
- IIED Livelihoods and agricultural biodiversity programme
- Himal South Asian
- Current news from South Asia
- Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS)
- Indian research centre specialising in gender-based research
- Care International - rights based approach resource centre
- Access to training on rights based approaches
- Zed Books
- Co-operative book publishers focusing on development issues
- Strategies for Hope
- Series of practical HIV/AIDS publications aimed at NGOs and community groups
- Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC)
- Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific
