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  Broadening the debate : the Tharaka participatory action research project

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996

  Can we distinguish different types of indigenous knowledge? What are the main characteristics of such types? What is the meaning of sustainable development seen in this light? And how does this affect the research approach used? After a theoretical elaboration on different types of knowledge, this article presents a tentative answer to all these questions.
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  DAC Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Development Cooperation

  OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines, 1998

  The topics covered are of particular relevance to the design and implementation of locally-owned strategies for sustainable, people-centered development. They range from broad policy issues to more specific sectoral themes. They make specific recommendations for donors, and also recognise the roles of others.
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  Water resources managment: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

  List of important document (with abstract) and related WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Civil society: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998

  Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Water policy issues

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997

  This paper discusses the principles underlying sound water policies, examples of good practice in applying those principles, and suggestions for the approaches that could be followed by the Department for International Development (DFID) in the future. In a paper of this length, some knowledge of the factual situation and problems of the water sector in developing countries will be assumed.
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  Private Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997

  This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to help inform DFID, together with other stakeholders, on the role and potential of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in its broadest sense and to provide suggestions on what approaches might be appropriate to DFID's programmes and those of others in lo
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  Bangladesh: Strategies for Enhancing the Role of Women in Development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 1990
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  Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction: A collaborative European Research Project: Objectives and Methodology for Phase II Recipient Country Case Studies

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  Phase I of the study has been a series of individual donor studies undertaken in donor capitals. Phase II offers scope to explore in recipient country contexts, the perspectives of recipients and donors and their interaction as well as the comparative experience and outcomes of several EU donors in the same recipient country context - all related to poverty reduction (PR).
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  Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa project

  Centre for Development Cooperation Services, Free University, Amsterdam, 1999

  Research project using participatory methods to improve the effectiveness of indigenous and modern soil and water conservation practices through a process of joint experimentation involving farmers, researchers, extension and NGO staff. Countries covered are Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
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  Internet as a Tool for Social Development

  Information Technologies and Social Development Project, UNRISD, 1997

  Explores the potential role of the Internet in promoting sustainable and equitable development in Third World countries. Possibilities of using the Internet in a way that will benefit society at large and vulnerable groups in particular are analyzed within the wider framework of actual needs and existing facilities of these communities.

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