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IDLO-CISDL compendium of legal best practices on climate change policy
International Development Law Organisation, 2011This paper highlights the challenges that governments face in implementing their international climate change policy commitments and the means to addressing these challenges. The authors note that international action on climate change is a relatively new phenomenon and legal systems were designed prior to the establishment of the multilateral climate change regime.DocumentBeyond the BICs: identifying the ‘emerging middle powers’ and understanding their role in global poverty reduction
Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are playing a more prominent role in regional and global arenas.DocumentMapping of integrity and accountability in water activities and relevant capacities in the SADC region
Stockholm International Water Institute, 2008Enhancing governance in the water sector through improved integrity, accountability, and the application of anti-corruption measures constitute important tools for achieving poverty reduction and improving sustainable management of water resources. These form fundamental elements of the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).DocumentGMO governance in Africa
The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, The Open University, 2006This paper examines issues of legitimation and harmonisation of biosafety systems in GMO governance in Africa. It draws on case studies from emerging regulatory systems in Ethiopia and South Africa, which offer contrasting examples that evolved under different historical and socio-economic conditions.DocumentStrengthening the capacity of developing countries to prepare for and participate in negotiations on future actions under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol: the BASIC project final report
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007The role of large developing countries in combating climate change will become increasingly important as the world negotiates a post-2012 agreement on climate change. This report summarises the activities undertaken by the BASIC Project (Building and Strengthening Institutional Capacities on Climate Change in Brazil, India, China and South Africa).DocumentThe role of civil society organisations in promoting social justice and sound developmental policies in SADC
CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2007Based on three case studies from Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this study examines how civil society actors relate to the government and its policies at national levels. It aims to make a contribution to building closer cooperation between civil society and governments in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.DocumentUnpacking rights and wrongs: do human rights make a difference?: the case of water rights in India and South Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005This paper focuses on why poor and marginalised people still lack access to economic, social and cultural rights despite a fairly mainstream support to positive rights in mainstream development debates.DocumentNepad and civil society participation in the APRM
Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005This paper provides general information on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in order to facilitate active participation in its processes.DocumentThe impact of conditional cash transfers on human development outcomes: a review of evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico and some implications for policy debates in South and Southern Africa
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005This paper reflects on assessments of Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer scheme (called PROGRESA) and draws comparisons with South Africa's Child Support Grant (CSG).