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  Decentralised governance of natural resources: part 1: manual and guidelines for practitioners

  Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2006

  This publication aims to promote learning from experience, to enable practitioners to improve on current and future efforts to mainstream and integrate governance of natural resources into a decentralised governance processes.
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  Regulating the commons in Mauritania: local agreements as a tool for sustainable natural resource management

  International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2006

  Natural resource management is Mauritania is a complex pluri-legal affair, with tribal law, colonial French law and modern state law coexisting and often contradicting. One approach of dealing with these codes, and at the same time, the various stakeholders, is to establish local agreements (LAs).
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  Public administration and democratic governance: governments serving citizens

  United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance, 2006

  This set of papers explores a wide range of topics for improving governance and public administration including the challenges facing governments in the 21st century including: globalisationmeans of fostering democracy and development through e-governmentpartnerships among citizens, businesses and governments for development and democracyinnovation and quality in government
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  Why are there so few black-owned firms in Africa? preliminary results from enterprise survey data

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2007

  Much of the growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade has come from extractive industries, rather than from private, entrepreneurial activity.
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  Decentralization and human development: findings and recommendations from a review of national human development reports

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006

  This study looks at some of the many ideas and approaches used by the Human Development Reports (HDRs) to address decentralisation in specific countries and communities from a human development perspective.
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  Decentralization and service delivery

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005

  Dissatisfied with centralised approaches to delivering local public services, a large number of countries are decentralising responsibility for these services to lower- level, locally elected governments, with mixed results.
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  The Comprehensive Peace Agreement: a summary booklet

  PACT Sudan, 2006

  This report summarises the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in relation to southern Sudan.
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  Democratization in Mali: putting history to work

  United States Institute of Peace, 2006

  This report outlines the driving forces behind Mali’s democratisation by taking a historical perspective. The paper argues that the foundation of Mali’s democracy is built on inter ethnic tolerance, highlighting how Islam can play a constructive role in this process.
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  Well-being and caste in Uttar Pradesh: why UP is not like Tamil Nadu

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006

  The mobilisation of the lower classes has lead to a significant improvement in social indicators in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Meanwhile in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the lower classes have only experienced a symbolic increase in power.
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  Effective decentralisation: a research scoping study—final report

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This report sets out a research agenda on the practice and impact of decentralisation highlighting pertinent structural, fiscal, administrative, legal and regulatory factors.

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