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  The partnering toolbook

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2004

  This booklet provides an overview and guidelines for practitioners on building partnerships with other organisations involved in development.Topics discussed include:obstacles to partneringkey principles of establishing partnershipsassessing risks and rewards of partnerships for each organisationresource mappingpartnering agreementsgovernance and accountability
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  Taxation, aid and democracy: research programme 2000-2003

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This paper, based on research carried out in Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda, discusses taxation, aid and democracy in aid-dependent African countries.
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  International development frameworks, policies, priorities and implications: a basic guide for NGOs

  Oxfam, 2003

  This manual is designed to help development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to better understand the major influences shaping international development aid.
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  Learning in partnerships

  British Overseas NGOs for Development, 2004

  This paper aims to highlight some fundamental issues in learning and partnerships, in order to enable development practitioners to feel more confident about taking simple and practical steps towards becoming better learners, as organisations and in partnerships.Increasingly, NGOs are looking seriously at opportunities for learning in their work.
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  Independent evaluation of the influence of SDC’s human rights and rule of law guidance documents

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2004

  What impact do policy documents have on practice? How can policy guidance be made more effective? Relatively little is known amongst international donors about the key factors that affect how policy guidance can affect practice.
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  Rethinking participation: questions for civil society about the limits of participation in PRSPs

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This discussion paper aims to inform and provoke discussion among civil society organisations engaged in PRSP consultations.It argues that there are serious limitations and constraints to the process as it currently exists, and that the IMF and the World Bank’s focus on poverty is limited to ameliorating the social damage done by the negative impacts of their structural adjustment policies and
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  ALNAP annual review 2003: humanitarian action: improving monitoring to enhance accountability and learning (key messages)

  Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action, 2003

  This document summarises the central issues and recommendations of the ALNAP Annual Review 2003, which focuses on the current status of monitoring in the humanitarian sector, and on how monitoring can be strengthened to promote learning and more effective performance.Findings include:there is a renewed focus on monitoring which obeys to its ability to assess and reassess the relevance a
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  From civil strife to civic society: NGO-military cooperation in peace operations

  Centre for Security and Defence Studies, Carleton University, 2003

  This article examines the various factors impeding effective NGO-military cooperation, and offers suggestions for improvement of the relationship.
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  On relations between the NGOs of the north and Mozambican civil society

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper looks at changing relations between civil society, the state and international organisations in Mozambique.
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  NGOs, social change and the transformation of human relationships: a 21st-century civic agenda

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2002

  This paper explores the role of personal values in achieving social change. It argues that globalisation has shifted the balance of power from public to private interests, resulting in an emerging social order that excludes or oppresses certain groups of people. In order to achieve sustainable development a deeper change in power relations is necessary.

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