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  Mid-term evaluation of the Clean Energy in Africa Programme of Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway)

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

  The Clean Energy in Africa programme is a five-year programme (2012-2016) where Naturvernforbundet is cooperating with the Pan-African organization Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement International (JVE) and Fórum de Energias e Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Moçambique (FEDESMO).
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  Mainstreaming anti-corruption initiatives: development of a water sector strategy in Mozambique

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014

  Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, yet the strategic prioritization of sector anti-corruption initiatives is still the exception. The National Water Directorate in Mozambique is one of the few public sector departments in the world known to have allocated its own resources to developing a sector-specific anti-corruption strategy.
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  Better land use, better future for all: partnering with civil society to enhance sustainable land management in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013

  Land degradation is a serious problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, where up to two-thirds of the productive land area is reported to be degraded to some extent.  Local communities suffer the most from the degradation of their land and they are therefore fundamental to the widespread adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) techniques.
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  Southern African Resource Watch (SARW)

  Advocacy and research organisation, aiming to monitor corporate and state conduct in the extraction and beneficiation of natural resources in Southern Africa region, in particular assessing to what ex
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  Synthetic biology in India: issues in risk, power and governance

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014

  Synthetic biology is an emerging technology that can facilitate ‘design’ and ‘creation’ of micro-organisms which may not be found in nature. Synthetic biology is considered as an amalgamation of principles of engineering and biology. Globally synthetic biology has advanced rapidly in the last decade; however, in India it is in nascent stages.
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  High level segment of the 6th session of the commission on sustainable development

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1998

  The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was set up following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.  The CSD meets annually in New York.  The Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development (DPCSD) in the United Nations Headquarters in New York serves as the secretariat for the CSD.  The C
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  Elephants over the cliff: explaining wildlife killings in Tanzania

  Elsevier, 2015

  Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other Africancountries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand for ivory. As we showin this case study, however, not all violence against elephants is driven by the ivory trade.
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  Technology Transfer in India: CBD, institutions, actors, typologies and perceptions. Sector: Herbal Medicines (biopharmaceuticals, botanicals and personal care products and cosmetics)

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  The Convention on Biologcal Diversity (CBD) recognises that both access to and transfer of technologies are essential for the attainment of its objectives. This report explores a number of issues related to technology transfer with a particular focus on India asking questions on: typologies, actors, and institutions, perceptions and mechanisms.
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  Power to protect? Participation in decentralized conservation management: the case of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  This report is based on a case study of participation in and decentralized management of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) in north-eastern Nepal.
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  Indigenous rights and biodiversity conservation: a case study of Ayubia national park

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000

  The ecological trend of greatest concern in Pakistan today is the continuing loss, fragmentation and degradation of natural and modified habitats. Ayubia National Park consists entirely of reserve forests, which spill out of the park area on the west and south sides.

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