Approaches to participation
- Using funding mechanisms to support accumulation of community assets
- R. Parhanse; I. Goldman / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2008
- Participatory approaches, decentralisation, and development of local capacity are now mainstream parts of the development toolkit. This policy briefing draws from emerging findings of a study about funding communities and demonstrates...
- How to scale up participatory methodologies: the example of CLTS
- A. Deak / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- When a process leads to positive change, it is desirable to instigate that process elsewhere. This paper proposes that ‘going to scale’ though, is multi-dimensional and complex. It examines the issues through Community-led...
- Involving women in fisheries and coastal resource management
- A. Soumare / Gender and Water Alliance, 2008
- During the last twenty years pressure on marine resources in Senegal has increased so significantly that fish have become scarce. Despite their involvement in the use of coastal and marine resources around the world, many women face b...
- Analysing an NGO- building capacity for quality responses to HIV/AIDS
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2004
- In many countries, community-based and non-governmental organisations have mobilised to respond to HIV/AIDS. As responses are scaled up, organisations are finding that they need to develop their own capacity to deliver and support the...
- Self organising for empowerment and social change
- J Ham / Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, 2007
- Self-organising can potentially be a very powerful tool for empowerment and social change but it can also be very challenging and complex. Self organised groups may face unique challenges and concerns, some of which may benefit from t...
- Are women participating more in Latin American politics?
- B, Llanos; K, Sample / International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2008
- This report reviews the current state of women’s participation in Latin American countries that have either maintained or adopted a representative and multi-party democratic system since 1978. It also examines the extent to whic...
- Evaluating action learning
- I. Goldman; R. Searle-Mbullu / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2008
- Action learning is about learning from actions and applying what is learnt back into the next experience, an ongoing process. This briefing presents lessons of how to use action learning to improve the development and implementation o...
- Assessing a rights based approach to development
- A. Kapur; N. Duvvury / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008
- Discussions among international donors and development agencies about how to reduce global poverty and increase overall well-being are particularly focused on realising human rights through a rightsbased approach. The following report...
- How can government spending be monitored?
- V. Ramkumar / International Budget Partnership, 2008
- The third in a series of guides covering financial budgeting and accountability, this paper offers an overview of government budget implementation processes and provides practical, tested tools that can be used by civil society o...
- Where is the Farmer First agenda twenty years on?
- Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007
- Over the past two decades, the Farmer First perspective has provided a powerful critique of the conventional organisation and application of agricultural R&D, with its emphasis on transfer of technology models. On 12-14 Dec, twent...
- Involving women in fisheries and coastal resource management
- A. Soumare / Gender and Water Alliance, 2008
- During the last twenty years pressure on marine resources in Senegal has increased so significantly that fish have become scarce. Despite their involvement in the use of coastal and marine resources around the world, many women face b...
- Analysing an NGO- building capacity for quality responses to HIV/AIDS
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2004
- In many countries, community-based and non-governmental organisations have mobilised to respond to HIV/AIDS. As responses are scaled up, organisations are finding that they need to develop their own capacity to deliver and support the...
- Self organising for empowerment and social change
- J Ham / Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, 2007
- Self-organising can potentially be a very powerful tool for empowerment and social change but it can also be very challenging and complex. Self organised groups may face unique challenges and concerns, some of which may benefit from t...
- Are women participating more in Latin American politics?
- B, Llanos; K, Sample / International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2008
- This report reviews the current state of women’s participation in Latin American countries that have either maintained or adopted a representative and multi-party democratic system since 1978. It also examines the extent to whic...
- Evaluating action learning
- I. Goldman; R. Searle-Mbullu / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2008
- Action learning is about learning from actions and applying what is learnt back into the next experience, an ongoing process. This briefing presents lessons of how to use action learning to improve the development and implementation o...
- Assessing a rights based approach to development
- A. Kapur; N. Duvvury / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008
- Discussions among international donors and development agencies about how to reduce global poverty and increase overall well-being are particularly focused on realising human rights through a rightsbased approach. The following report...
- How can government spending be monitored?
- V. Ramkumar / International Budget Partnership, 2008
- The third in a series of guides covering financial budgeting and accountability, this paper offers an overview of government budget implementation processes and provides practical, tested tools that can be used by civil society o...
- Where is the Farmer First agenda twenty years on?
- Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007
- Over the past two decades, the Farmer First perspective has provided a powerful critique of the conventional organisation and application of agricultural R&D, with its emphasis on transfer of technology models. On 12-14 Dec, twent...
- Local contexts influence the outcomes of participatory budgeting
- Warwick E. Murray; T. Wood / Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, University of Amsterdam, 2007
- This paper presents a comparative evaluation of participatory budgeting experience in the cities of Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte in Brazil with the objective of finding out how local circumstances or geographies can affect outcomes...
- Roma participation in programming
- Z. De Sas Kropiwnicki; F. Deans / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
- Are Roma included well enough in current approaches to monitoring and evaluation? This report provides a broad overview of the current monitoring and evaluation policy at the levels of standard setting and compliance, indicator settin...
- Practice In Participation
- Participatory portal for community-based practices
- The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)
- Sustainable development in Africa
- International Conference on Engaging Communities
- 2005 UN and Queensland government organised conference resulting in the Brisbane Declaration on Community Engagement.
