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Khadgi; L. Schipper</author>            <description>The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is predicted to be severely affected and socially vulnerable to climate change. This study delves into how political processes ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61434</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61434</guid>            <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 16:55:17 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Participatory Budgeting: Citizen Participation for Better Public Policies</title>            <author>J. Oropeza</author>            <description>In the last two decades, Latin American countries have implemented participatory budgeting (PB) as a way to incorporate citizen perspective into budget ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61417</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61417</guid>            <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:07:21 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Living on a Spike</title>            <author>N Hossain</author>            <description>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 ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61413</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61413</guid>            <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:06:55 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Guidelines for incorporating free, prior and informed consent into REDD+ projects</title>            <author>P. Anderson</author>            <description>The right for indigenous people to give or withhold their free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) has recently been strengthened through the adoption ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60960</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60960</guid>            <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:33:59 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Stakeholder participation in agricultural research projects: a conceptual framework for reflection and decision-making</title>            <author>A. Neef</author>            <description>Recent discourse in the field of participatory agricultural research has focused on how to blend various forms and intensities of stakeholder participation ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61314</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61314</guid>            <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:06:26 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>How People Face Evictions: Lessons from people-led initiatives</title>            <author>Y. Cabannes</author>            <description>Forced and market-driven evictions are increasing dramatically worldwide, with devastating effects on millions of children, women and men across the globe. ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61296</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61296</guid>            <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 09:06:04 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>ILO Participatory Gender Audit: relevance and use for the United Nations and its agencies</title>            <author></author>            <description>The ILO has designed a tool - the Participatory Gender Audit (PGA) - that lends itself particularly well to providing a comprehensive picture of any given ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61274</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61274</guid>            <pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 09:06:58 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Community Centers for Community Development: A Case Study of Dhaka City</title>            <author>F Yasmin</author>            <description>Like the developed countries city corporations and municipalities of Bangladesh too bear the responsibility of providing community facilities to the urban ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61251</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=61251</guid>            <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 09:08:14 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Gender mainstreaming in emergency management: facilitator notes</title>            <author>E. Enarson</author>            <description>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 ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60967</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60967</guid>            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:07:16 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>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.</title>            <author>S. Nelson; M. Chaudhury; H. Tranberg</author>            <description>Together, both women and men play a significant role in safeguarding food security. It is important to understand their respective roles and responsibilities ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60740</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60740</guid>            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:33:14 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>How water management practices must adapt in the Americas</title>            <author></author>            <description>This solutions document, a product of the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change Adaptation in the Americas (comprised of 21 different ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60880</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60880</guid>            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:07:17 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Fire Hazard Management of Dhaka City: Addressing Issues Relating to Institutional Capacity and Public Perception</title>            <author>M M Islam</author>            <description>City dwellers has been increased due to reckless building construction and nonconformation of Fire Protection Act, 2003. Dhaka City has been experiencing ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60848</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60848</guid>            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:04:15 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>A Guideline for Environmentally and Socially Responsible Business Practices in the Financial Sector</title>            <author>A Raihan</author>            <description>Environmentally and socially responsible businesses are closely related to corporate governance which in turn concentrates in providing a balance between ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60654</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60654</guid>            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:04:48 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Women&apos;s empowerment in India: an analytical overview</title>            <author>R. Upadhyay</author>            <description>Women&apos;s empowerment in India is heavily dependent on many different variables that include geographical location (urban/rural), educational status, social ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60304</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60304</guid>            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:01:53 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Diversity and female political participation: views on and from the Arab world</title>            <author></author>            <description>Equality, respect for human rights, and protection of citizens&apos; rights by the government are mutually enhancing features of good governance. They are ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60288</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=60288</guid>            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:02:26 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Participatory Video for Monitoring and Evaluation of Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change</title>            <author>A. Lemaire</author>            <description>This case study highlights the learning from participatory video workshops set up to monitor and evaluate (M&amp;amp;E;) action research projects run by Community ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=59983</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=59983</guid>            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:42:02 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>What are the challenges facing the development of African media?</title>            <author>Berger G.</author>            <description>The 1991 Windhoek Declaration on Press Freedom was a landmark document which set the stage for the development of the African media. The Declaration ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=59411</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=59411</guid>            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:34:10 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Protecting human rights: how can national human rights institutions and civil society work more effectively together?</title>            <author>J. Kishan; S. Awori; Z. Abugov</author>            <description>The realisation of human rights relies on several factors. Most important, however, is the consistent determination of governments to respect human ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=59282</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=59282</guid>            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:30:07 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Are Malawians involved in key decision making processes?</title>            <author>B Chisinga</author>            <description>There is little doubt that one of the most momentous policy events within the development community at the beginning of the previous decade was the return ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58460</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58460</guid>            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:55:28 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Does Malawi have a capacity to respond to and Manage HIV/AIDS?</title>            <author>N. Kadowe; R. Kamanga</author>            <description>UNDP in collaboration with the Government of Malawi formulated a Programme Support Document (PSD) for a five-year programme from 2002 to 2006 for Capacity ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58515</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58515</guid>            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:13 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Progress of the World&apos;s Women: In Pursuit of Justice</title>            <author>L Turquet</author>            <description>What are the legal frameworks in place to ensure women&apos;s rights and access to justice? How do these laws translate into equality in practice? What ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58784</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58784</guid>            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:55:20 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Investigating the quality of Civil Society participation in the PRSP process in Malawi</title>            <author>W. Chirwa; R. James</author>            <description>Malawi is not simply government-owned, but developed in cooperation with other stakeholders, and particularly those directly affected by or working to ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58574</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58574</guid>            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:34:36 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>A review of the poorly performing policy and institutional framework of the fisheries sector in Malawi</title>            <author>B. Chinsinga</author>            <description>This paper presents issues for consideration in the development of a proposal for possible funding to address the policy and institutional framework for ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58579</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58579</guid>            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:33:28 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Community participation in Malawian development</title>            <author>L. Manyozo</author>            <description>The introduction of multiparty politics in 1993 in Malawi resulted in political and social reforms, which centred on media diversity, freedom ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58424</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58424</guid>            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:29:06 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Community involvement in government decision-making processes in Malawi</title>            <author>B. Chinsinga; H. Kayuni</author>            <description>This situation analysis of community development in Malawi is a product of the fieldwork that was carried out in nine districts across the country as ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58352</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=58352</guid>            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:09:10 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Does the development policy of Bangladesh actually conform to the demands of the right to development?</title>            <author>S.R. Osmani</author>            <description>By signing and ratifying various human rights instruments, the State of Bangladesh has committed itself to pursuing socio-economic policies in a way that ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=57929</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=57929</guid>            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:48:31 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>What influences people&apos;s voting behaviour in Malawi?</title>            <author>N. Lawton</author>            <description>Malawi became a sovereign state on July 6th 1964. Its first president was Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who ruled the country from independence until ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=57964</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=57964</guid>            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:57:44 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Understanding farmers&apos; concerns about the participatory process encourages sustained technology adoption in Zimbabwe</title>            <author>T. Pedzisa; I. Minde; S. Twomlow</author>            <description>Participatory technology development has been used for quite some time, but little is known about how farmers perceive participatory methods and processes. ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=57580</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=57580</guid>            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:59:27 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>How responsive is local governance to citizens&apos; needs in sub-Saharan Africa?</title>            <author>M. Bratton</author>            <description>The daily lives of Africans remain relatively untouched by the agents and institutions of a central state. Ordinary people are more likely to ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=57079</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=57079</guid>            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:53:25 GMT</pubDate>        </item>        <item>            <title>Strengthening the institutional engagement of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa programme in East Africa</title>            <author>E. Kituyi</author>            <description>Commissioned by IDRC and DFID in order to strengthen institutional engagement of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme, this study ...</description>            <link>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=56694</link>            <guid>http://www.eldis.org/go/display&amp;type=Document&amp;id=56694</guid>            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:08:55 GMT</pubDate>        </item>    </channel></rss>

