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    The WTO and Civil Society

    Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
    In line with a general trend in contemporary global governance, the World Trade Organization has been developing increased links with civil society groups. If conducted well, these contacts can make important contributions towards greater effectiveness and democracy in the global trade regime. If handled poorly, however, the relations can undermine policy and undercut democracy.
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    Social Exclusion, Social Isolation and the Distribution of Income

    Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
    It is worth distinguishing social exclusion from social isolation, defining social isolation as the phenomenon of non-participation (of an individual or group) in a society’ s mainstream institutions, while reserving ‘ social exclusion’ for the subset of cases in which social isolation occurs for reasons that are beyond the control of those subject to it.
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    Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects

    Overseas Development Institute, 1998
    In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.
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    The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond

    Overseas Development Institute, 1998
    In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.
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    Contestation over Political Space: The State and Demobilisation of Party Politics in Kenya

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Appraises political liberalization and subsequent contestation over political space in Kenya. The discussion centres on how, from the colonial period, elite politics have precluded organization and crystallization of popular democracy.The paper specifically examines the historicity of political factionalism and attendant decline of multi-partyism.
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    Hitosa Water Supply Project, Ethiopia

    Wateraid, 1997
    Describes a large scale community-managed gravity water supply scheme in Ethiopia
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    WAMMA: empowerment in practice [water project in Tanzania]

    Wateraid, 1997
    Description of how an evolutionary government/NGO partnership has helped villages in Dadoma Region, Tanzania to attain sustainable water and sanitation services.
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    Gendered governance: an agenda for change

    Gender in Development Programme, UNDP, 1996
    A gendered analysis of governance exposes the reality and severity of women's subordination. In so doing, it challenges power structures and encounters resistance.
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    Urban governance: why gender matters

    Gender in Development Programme, UNDP, 1996
    Deals with the themes of participation and partnership in urban governance, a concept which refers to both government responsibility and civic engagement. It is informed by the premise that participation in political or organisational processes in the city is related to command over the resources of the city.
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    Ethical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People

    Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
    Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.

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