Participation in development
- Community wildlife management in Tanzania
- F. Nelson / Drylands Programme, IIED, 2007
- As the country known around the world as the home of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater, few natural resources are more closely associated with Tanzania than its wildlife populations. By the 1980s, Tanzania’s wildlife managemen...
- Evaluating Indian self help groups
- R. B. Swain; A. Varghese / Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala, 2008
- In January 2008, Indian policymakers released a report on financial inclusion. This report reviewed various mechanisms including bank-correspondent models and traditional microfinance institutions. Of all the proposed delivery mechani...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- How community and faith-based organisations can conduct participatory monitoring and evaluation to improve HIV/AIDS interventions
- R. Degnan Kambou; M.K Adams; M. Kaul Shah; X. M.V Mahlalela / Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2006
- While monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can appear overwhelming and confusing, it should not be assumed that it can only be carried out by professional M&E experts. Organisations should be able, and be enabled,&nb...
- A critical overview of participation
- F. Bliss; S. Neumann / Institute for Development and Peace/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden, University of Duisburg, 2008
- Participation has become one of the most important buzzwords in the international development discourse since at least the middle of the 1990s. However the positive connotation of participation shared by almost all actors in the field...
- The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)
- Sustainable development in Africa
- 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...
- 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 ...
- How community and faith-based organisations can conduct participatory monitoring and evaluation to improve HIV/AIDS interventions
- R. Degnan Kambou; M.K Adams; M. Kaul Shah; X. M.V Mahlalela / Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2006
- While monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can appear overwhelming and confusing, it should not be assumed that it can only be carried out by professional M&E experts. Organisations should be able, and be enabled,&nb...
- A critical overview of participation
- F. Bliss; S. Neumann / Institute for Development and Peace/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden, University of Duisburg, 2008
- Participation has become one of the most important buzzwords in the international development discourse since at least the middle of the 1990s. However the positive connotation of participation shared by almost all actors in the field...
- Why are local people often resistant to conservation efforts?
- G. Holmes / Conservation and Society, 2007
- This paper presents a framework to understand how conservation is resisted, particularly in protected areas and national parks. Informed largely by James Scott’s concept of ‘everyday resistance’, the paper is ba...
- Evaluating participation in Tanzania
- Z.S. Masanyiwa; G.F. Kinyashi / Eldis Document Store, 2008
- Participation has now become an established orthodoxy in development thinking and practice. But what exactly is it and how best should be pursued in development interventions to improve the livelihoods of the poor remains contestable....
- 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 the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia an...
- Designing successful programmes to combat land degradation in Western Asia
- Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 2007
- This report looks at possible ways for policy-makers and decision-takers to combat and/or prevent land degradation in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) region, both generally and specifically in the following...
- Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)
- Center for Participatory Research and Development is an independent, non-profit policy, research and implementation institute.
- Practice In Participation
- Participatory portal for community-based practices
- Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG)
- Activists advocating policy dialogue and change in attitudes in Bangladesh
- The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)
- Sustainable development in Africa
- Committee for Asian Women (CAW)
- Women workers organisation
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
- International Conference on Engaging Communities
- 2005 UN and Queensland government organised conference resulting in the Brisbane Declaration on Community Engagement.
