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  The role of CSOs: training modules - MDG-based national development strategies

  Ghana Civil Society Resource Centre, 2007

  Civil society organisations (CSOs) provide one of the more formal channels for ensuing community concerns are heard and addressed. Practice has shown that CSOs can play a critical role in making sure a government’s development promises are fulfilled — and when they are not, that policy changes are made.
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  The role of sector no-lose targets in scaling up finance for climate change mitigation activities in developing countries

  Ecofys, 2008

  This paper discusses the role of Sector No-Lose Targets (SNLTs) in financing for climate change mitigation in developing countries. It focuses on the preparation of SNLT’s and particularly looks at policy measures and high level issues under SNLT, compliance and next steps forward.
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  Poverty, aid and corruption

  Transparency International, 2007

  For aid to be effective it must, in its first instance, be delivered to its intended recipients. Combating corruption, therefore, should be the first action of any aid transaction - in order to ensure development can be effected.
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  Progress of the world’s women 2008/2009: who answers to women? gender and accountability

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2008

  UNIFEM’s biennial flagship report argues that realising women’s rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals depends on strengthening accountability for commitments to women and gender equality.
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  Climate change impact and disaster vulnerabilities in the coastal areas of Bangladesh

  Equity and Justice Working Group, 2007

  Focusing on the coastal areas of Bangladesh, this report analyses the impact of disasters with specific reference to the effects of climate change. It also looks at the nature of the disasters that frequently occur and discusses efforts to mitigate their impact.
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  Mission improbable: does petroleum-related aid address corruption in resource-rich countries?

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2008

  Petroleum-related aid encompasses activities aiming to improve the development impact of petroleum resources, i.e. oil and gas. This study explores the petroleum-related aid activities of three bilateral donors – Norad, CIDA and USAID – with a view to assessing their likely effect on the ‘resource curse’ more generally, and on corruption specifically.
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  Balancing humanitarian and human rights needs in Darfur

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Humanitarian agencies responding to the suffering in Darfur have not only provided relief, but also spoken out on the politics of the crisis. In doing so, they have angered the Sudanese Government in Khartoum, which has come to see them as tools of Western interference. Humanitarian agencies risk compromising their commitment to neutrality and jeopardising operations in the field.
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  Reporting on violence against children: a thematic guide for non-governmental organisations reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

  Consortium for Street Children, 2008

  These guidelines are designed to help non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to include comprehensive information on the incidence of violence in their reports to the Committee.
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  Governing collaboration: making partnerships accountable for delivering development

  AccountAbility, 2008

  This report offers a framework for collaborative governance & accountability. The framework guides partnerships through four steps that enable partnership accountability and governance to drive superior performance: understand the governance requirements at each stage of the partnership design cycle
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  Cereal offenders: how the G8 has contributed to the global food crisis, and what they can do to stop it

  ActionAid International, 2008

  Three years after the G8 pledged to ‘make poverty history’, the current global food crisis has left close to a quarter of the world’s population lacking basic food security. In this policy brief, Actionaid calls on G8 leaders to take bold steps in Hokkaido to prevent world hunger spiralling further out of control.

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