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  Institutions for international freshwater management

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This report describes selected bi- and multilateral institutions for the management of international river basins, lakes, and aquifers.
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  Social protection and pro-poor agricultural growth: what scope for synergies?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2004

  Social protection (SP) and livelihood promotion have conventionally been handled by different departments within governments and donor organisations.
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  Haiti: participation: from words to action: small-scale irrigation schemes rehabilitation project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2003

  This document presents the findings of the evaluation of an IFAD seven-year project in Haiti. The project carried out rehabilitation work on the irrigation schemes attached to small plots of land, put in place local structures for management and maintenance and upgraded rural production techniques.
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  Wild resources theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001

  This paper provides background information on access to natural resources in Southern Africa. Case studies are used from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, to explore customary rights and de facto access to a wide range of wild resources, in particular those of greatest importance to the rural poor.
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  Water theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  The key concern of this paper is with the implications of changes in institutions and policy in the water sector for poor communities, households and individuals. Three case studies are used, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, to illustrate changes in decentralisation, the involvement of stakeholders in decision making, and the role of the private sector.
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  Citizens juries: a radical alternative for social research

  University of Surrey, 2003

  This paper discusses how citizen’s juries can offer an alternative for social research. The paper describes the jury process, its impacts and future challenges.The paper argues that citizen’s juries have the potential to be a tool of social justice and legitimise non specialist knowledge as much as a method of participatory research.
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  The politics of water: a Southern African example

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This report examines the political contradictions embedded in water reform processes across different levels in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. It argues that implementing ideas on water reform often borrowed from extremely different contexts is not an automatic and unproblematic process, but involves complex local political negotiation.
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  Caught in the act: new stakeholders, decentralisation and water management processes in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This study focuses on the experience of water resource governance in one main river basin in Zimbabwe, the Save.
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  Land reform and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper examines the experiences of implementation of land reform policies in the Eastern Cape through a series of case studies.It looks at how attempts at redistribution, restitution and land tenure reform have resulted in a variety of models and approaches.
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  Rural development, institutional change and livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a case study of Mdudwa Village

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at the case of Mdudwa village in the Eastern Cape to explore the processes and impacts of democratic decentralisation.

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