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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Capacity building in aid and debt, Research to policy

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  A call to action for the UN millennium declaration: we the peoples: 2003

  World Federation of United Nations Associations, 2003

  This report is based on an e-survey of more than 300 organizations in over 80 countries and a number of other civil society events and sources. It presents a a sketch of civil society organizations engaging with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
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  Institutional learning and change in the CGIAR

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This report summarizes papers presented and the discussions that took place at the workshop on Institutional Learning and Change in the CGIAR.
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  Research for poverty reduction: DFID Research Policy Paper

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This report acknowledges the high quality of much current practice and proposes to build on the best of what is currently done.
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  Advocacy tools and guidelines: promoting policy change

  CARE International, 2001

  This manual is a training guide designed to familiarise program managers with key advocacy concepts and techniques.The paper looks at the ways to contextualise policies, or the lack of them, in order to develop the most appropriate strategies to influence policy decision-makers.
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  Dealing with media: a practical guide

  EU/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia, 2002

  This is a basic guide outlining reasons and methods for Southern NGOs to engage with the media.
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  Comparative study of the impacts of donor-initiated programmes on research capacity in the south

  Demanding Innovation: articulating policies for demand-led research and research capacity building in the South [seminar], 2001

  This paper examines Multi-annual, Multidisciplinary Research Programmes (MMRPs) instigated by the Netherlands in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The MMRPs were developed in response to a perceived need for a shift in the key responsibilities in donor funded research (eg in agenda and priority setting,the conduct of the research and financial accounting) from the North to the South.
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  A Social Network Approach to Analyzing Research Systems: A Study of Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala, India

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1997

  Describes a social network approach to analyzing science and technology systems, taking into account the primary sectors involved in agriculture and natural resource management. It outlines a methodology for producing an inventory of the set of relationships that actually occur rather than purely formal, “on paper” linkages, which may or may not be operational.
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  Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Governance Programming

  Institute on Governance, 1999

  Review of experience of projects aimed at developing governance and policy-forming capacity in Africa (particularly World Bank experience).Finds that governance failures in SSA are often attributable in whole or in part to:governments’ unwillingness to make themselves accountable to the citizens they are supposed to servethe inability of citizens and of the organizations and institu
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  Information and knowledge management: challenges for capacity builders

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2000

  The paper explores ways to improve information capacity building activities in developing countries. Focusing on the capacity building process, it presents some principles and key questions for actors in this area.Capacity building for the information sector can be very different to in other sectors.
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  How the quality of institutions affects technological deepening in developing countries

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper assesses the effect of institutional quality on R&D expenditures in developing countries. The paper finds that the risk of expropriation and the rule of law are correlated with R&D expenditures.

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