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  Aid beyond the wave: how effective has post tsunami reconstruction and rehabilitation been?

  Eldis News Weblog, 2006

  Aid agencies have responded to criticism over the tsunami aid effort with a plethora of reports outlining their response to the crisis. These have frequently considered common questions regarding aid distribution, reconstruction and rehabilitation over such a varied geographical and cultural landscape.
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  Does NGO aid go to the poor? empirical evidence from Europe

  International Monetary Fund, 2006

  This paper studies the aid allocation of European nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). Once population is controlled, poverty consistently appears as the main worldwide determinant of NGO aid allocation.
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  NGOs, gender mainstreaming and urban poor communities in Mumbai

  Oxfam, 2005

  This article argues that NGOs working at the community level can play an important role in supporting women to challenge customs and beliefs which perpetuate unequal gender relations.
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  Enhancing the development capabilities of civil society organisations, with particular reference to Christian faith-based organisations (CFBOS)

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2005

  This paper considers a recent paradigm shift favouring the role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as recipients and implementers of development assistance. The author focuses on the capacities and performance of the diverse group of agencies termed Christian Faith-based Organisations (CFBOs).The document considers CFBOs relative strengths and weaknesses in pro-poor development activity.
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  Civil society and the OECD

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  This Policy Briefing describes some of the many channels of communication that are open for productive dialogue between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and civil society, particularly around the topic of globalisation.
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  Subsidy or self-respect? Community led total sanitation: an update on recent developments

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper is an updated version of an IDS working paper focusing on processes of Community Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS - an approach which facilitates a process of empowering local communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines without the support of any external hardware subsidy.
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  Monitoring and evaluation aspects of capacity and capacity development

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2005

  This papers looks at the monitoring and evaluating of capacity and capacity development with special reference to developing countries.
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  Ringing the church bell: the role of churches in governance and public performance in Papua New Guinea

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2005

  This case study examines the role of the Christian churches as institutional actors within Papua New Guinea's (PNG) governance and service delivery landscape. It considers the considerable impact that the church has on development in the country.The report observes that some church activities in PNG are well incorporated into change strategies of individual organisations or networks.
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  In whose name?: political representation and civil organisations in Brazil

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  Civil society actors are gaining increasing recognition, particularly for their perceived capacity to represent the needs and rights of those at grassroots level in a formal political context, and to thus act as intermediaries of the poor and vulnerable.
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  Toward an understanding of the economics of charity: evidence from a field experiment

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005

  Based on a field experiment with 5000 randomly selected households, this study explores the economics of charity. It first of all develops a theoretical model which is then tested by the field study. The focus of the study is on the effectiveness of voluntary contribution schemes compared with lotteries.

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