Participation in development
- 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...
- Including children and young people in CIDA programmes
- Capacity Development Web Site, Canadian International Development Agency, 2007
- To demonstrate the potential for children and young people's participation in its programming, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) launched a series of pilot projects integrating participation of children and young pe...
- 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...
- Community-based climate adaptation: a guide to selecting appropriate technologies for communities in need
- S. Thorne; B. Kantor; I. Hossain / SouthSouthNorth, 2007
- Adaptation to the impacts of climate change will require considerable innovation and cooperation, and technology could hold the key to this process. However, in much of the developing world, technologies fail to operate optimally beca...
- How are indigenous people being affected by climate change mitigation efforts?
- The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2008
- In this paper, the authors summarise the effects of climate change on indigenous peoples, review mitigation and adaptation measures, and analyse the impacts of these measures on indigenous peoples. This paper includes case studies of ...
- Protecting pastoralists' livelihoods: lessons from Ngorongoro, Tanzania
- N. Kipuri; C. Sørensen / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- Recent years have seen pastoralist communities in Tanzania becoming increasingly impoverished and vulnerable, due to livestock diseases, drought, fluctuating market prices and unfavourable policies. This paper discusses strategi...
- Towards food sovereignty: reclaiming autonomous food systems
- International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- Throughout the world, social movements are the driving force behind a new food sovereignty policy framework, which aims to guarantee and protect people’s space, ability and right to define their own models of production, food di...
- Including children and young people in CIDA programmes
- Capacity Development Web Site, Canadian International Development Agency, 2007
- To demonstrate the potential for children and young people's participation in its programming, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) launched a series of pilot projects integrating participation of children and young pe...
- 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...
- Community-based climate adaptation: a guide to selecting appropriate technologies for communities in need
- S. Thorne; B. Kantor; I. Hossain / SouthSouthNorth, 2007
- Adaptation to the impacts of climate change will require considerable innovation and cooperation, and technology could hold the key to this process. However, in much of the developing world, technologies fail to operate optimally beca...
- How are indigenous people being affected by climate change mitigation efforts?
- The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2008
- In this paper, the authors summarise the effects of climate change on indigenous peoples, review mitigation and adaptation measures, and analyse the impacts of these measures on indigenous peoples. This paper includes case studies of ...
- Protecting pastoralists' livelihoods: lessons from Ngorongoro, Tanzania
- N. Kipuri; C. Sørensen / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- Recent years have seen pastoralist communities in Tanzania becoming increasingly impoverished and vulnerable, due to livestock diseases, drought, fluctuating market prices and unfavourable policies. This paper discusses strategi...
- Towards food sovereignty: reclaiming autonomous food systems
- International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- Throughout the world, social movements are the driving force behind a new food sovereignty policy framework, which aims to guarantee and protect people’s space, ability and right to define their own models of production, food di...
- 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...
- An alternative plan to save the world from ecological crisis
- L. Brown / Earth Policy Institute, 2008
- This publication argues that the roots of the current environmental dilemmas lie in the enormous growth of the human enterprise over the last century. The author presents an alternative plan to save civilisation, which is ambitious no...
- How are conservation policies shaped by neoliberalism?: a collection of critical essays
- J. Igoe (ed); D. Brockington (ed) / Conservation and Society, 2008
- The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This la...
- How can South Pacific communities participate in climate change adaptation?
- WWF South Pacific programme, 2007
- The South Pacific region is among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. With an almost complete reliance on natural resources for subsistence living and economic development, the changes occurring in sea levels, weathe...
- 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.
