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  Sharing knowledge: innovations and remaining challenges

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2003

  This report evaluates how successful the World Bank has been at becoming the ‘global knowledge bank’ it committed to being in 1996.The review finds that over these first six years, the Bank has made progress in establishing the tools and activities to support its knowledge initiative.
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  Learning to make policy: comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank aid

  Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2003

  This report discusses the findings and outcomes of a three-year research project on how four donor agencies’ learning and knowledge strategies inform their policy-making. This research resulted in the first book-length academic study of the architecture of knowledge in agencies, and makes an original contribution to aid theory.
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  Nkhalango!: a social forestry model: expereinces from Blantyre city fuelwood project in southern Malawi

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This book records the successes and failures from the Blantyre City Fuel Wood Project (BCFP) in Southern Malawi. It focuses on the transfer of responsibilities for plantations and indigenous forests to newly created village institutions set up to manage these assets sustainably.It presents a model of best practice, NKHALANGO!
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  Digital empowerment: a strategy for ICT for Development (ICT4D) for DESO

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This report outlines the strategy of the Sida Department of Democracy and Social Development (DESO) for integrating ICT as a tool for democracy and social development, from a rights-based perspective. DESO will primarily focus on activities and processes surrounding ICTs, rather than technical issues.
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  Trickle-down, trickle-up or puddle?: participatory value chains analysis for pro-poor enterprise development

  Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service, 2003

  This paper provides a practical guide to value chains analysis, and how it can be used as part of participatory processes for strategic learning and ongoing accountability within and between enterprise sectors.
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  Enhancing local capacity to manage conflicts: Malian women take centre stage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Have we neglected the gender dimensions of conflict over natural resources (NR)? Are women’s capacities to analyse and resolve NR disputes sufficiently recognised? Can women’s rights to participate in NR management be affirmed in a way that is not confrontational? How could women be integrated into peace-making and reconciliation initiatives?
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  Ending the handout mentality: putting participation into emergency responses

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are aid agencies mistaken in thinking that conflicts are not the norm? During complex political emergencies, aid agencies prioritise tackling food insecurity but do they also reflect on the developmental consequences of the way they provide food aid? Could the humanitarian community do more to involve aid recipients and to build local capacity in the midst of conflict?
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  GATS negotiations must focus on services liberalization: the case of SADC

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper argues that for trade liberalization in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region to have any meaning it is important that services liberalization keep pace with trade liberalization.
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  Capacity development in Ghana’s plant genetic resources centre: an evaluation

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2003

  This study evaluated capacity development results and processes at the Plant Genetic Resources Centre (PGRC) in Ghana and examined the roles of various external agents in that development, particularly the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and the Genetic Resources Network for West and Central Africa (GRENEWECA).
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  Themeatic evaluation of the integration of gender in EC development co-operation with Third World countries

  European Union, 2003

  This paper evaluated the integration of gender across sectors and policies within EC development co-operation, responding, in part, to a commitment made in the 1998 EC Regulation on integrating gender issues into development co-operation.Findings include:while there are strong policy commitments on gender in EC development co-operation, they will only become operational in 2003, and the

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