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Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice
L Turquet / UN Women, 2011
What are the legal frameworks in place to ensure women’s rights and access to justice? How do these laws translate into equality in practice? What interventions are needed to make justice a real...
Tools for conducting participatory discussions on gender equity in Bangladesh
AFM. Amir Uddin;A. Khanom;M. Boss;et al. / Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009
These guidelines have been prepared as a tool for conducting participatory discussion and analysis on the social position and condition of men and women within the context of the Union Parishad (UP...
Assessing local governance in Bangladesh
M. Boss;N. Hasan;P. Tripura / Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009
Local government promises to be more responsive to people's demands, more effective in service delivery and more accountable when citizens participate in local governance. This can be achieved...
Enthusiasm for peace in Nepal
N. Jones;B. Bhatta;G. Gill / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2009
Latent and violent unrest has plagued Nepal since the process of parliamentary politics was reintroduced in 1991 after 50 years of monarchical rule. This document focuses on grassroots experiences ...
Engaging citizens in governance
A. Cornwall / Demos, 2008
Citizen engagement has become an essential part of modern government. Governments around the world are starting to realise that engaging their citizens more in shaping the decisions that affect the...
Informal accountability in Bangladesh
N. Hossain / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2009
The massive expansion of social service provision in the 1990s in Bangladesh has meant the state is now a larger presence in the lives of the poor. The terms though of its interaction with those citiz...
Community based planning and the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) in South Africa
I. Goldman;S. Chimbuya;K. Muthala / Khanya-aicd, 2005
Community-based planning (CBP) is a specific form of ward planning involving all people in a ward which has been designed to promote community action and make the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) ...
Participatory health research
C. Mbwili-Muleya;M. Lungu;I. Kabuba / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2008
In 2006 a team representing Zambia Equity Gauge and Lusaka District Health Board carried out a pilot project using a participatory reflection and action (PRA) approach in two districts of Zambia. T...
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, mak...
Achieving participatory governance in South East Asia
One World Action, 2008
Achieving democracy, accountability and participatory governance are complex and long term processes. The Citizen’s Participation in Local Governance (CPLG) is a project implemented across th...

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