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  Community-led Micro-Planning: Building Capacity of Local Leaders for Participatory Planning in Bhutan, 8 –10 February 2017, Tsirang Dzongkhag, Bhutan

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017

  Bottom-up participatory planning is an ongoing practice within and outside government planning processes in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Community-led micro-planning begins at the grassroots level. Ideally it influences higher level planning and represents grassroots population in the decision-making process.
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  Changing elites, institutions and environmental governance

  Springerlink, 2016

  The topic of elites has always been controversial in Latin American social sciences. Elites have been studied indirectly as landowners, capitalists, business-leaders or politicians, and have also been approached directly using concepts and theory from elite studies.
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  Deciding over nature: corruption and environmental impact assessments

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2016

  Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are a core aspect of environmental decision-making in most countries. Despite massive potential for public harms resulting from corrupt decision-making linked to EIAs, research on this topic is still very limited.
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  Lack of consultation. Stakeholders’ perspectives on local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016

  Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase local job and business opportunities. This brief presents the main findings from a study of the stakeholders’ assessment of the LCPs the Tanzanian Government has developed.
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  Panama Papers and the looting of Africa

  2016

  On the 3rd of April 2016 the German Newspaper Sud Deutsche Zeitung in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) made an unprecedented release of documents from a database of the Panama based offshor e law firm Mossack Fonseca which is the world’s fourth largest offshore services law firm.
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  Whose waters? Large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon.
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  The Complex Politics of Water and Power in Zimbabwe: IWRM in the Catchment Councils of Manyame, Mazowe and Sanyati (1993-2001) - file

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  In the mid - nineties Zimbabwe formed participatory institutions known as catchment a nd sub - catchment councils based on river basins to govern and manage its waters. These councils were initially funded by a range of donors anticipating that they could become self - funding over time through the sale of water.
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  Surges and ebbs: national politics and international influence in the formulation and implementation of IWRM in Zimbabwe

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  In  the  1990s, the  Government  of  Zimbabwe  undertook  water  reforms  to  redress  racially  defined inequitable access to agricultural water.
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  Emergence, interpretations and translations of IWRM in South Africa

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  South  Africa is  often  regarded  to  be  at  the  forefront  of  water  reform,  based  on  Integrated  Water Resources Management (IWRM) ideas. This paper explores how the idea of IWRM emerged in South Africa, its key debates and interpretations and how it has been translated.
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  Introduction to the special Issue: Flows and practices: the politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Southern Africa

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  For the past two decades, IWRM has been actively promoted by water experts as well as multilateral and bilateral donors  who have considered it to be a crucial way to address global  water management problems.

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