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    Containing conflict: a donor perspective

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What can donors do to strengthen the capacity of a society to manage tensions and disputes without resorting to violence? What governance interventions might improve a state’s capacity to contain conflict? How can we better understand the role corruption and natural resource spoiling plays in managing and generating conflict?
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    Combined harvesters - are partnerships myth or reality?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Farmers are using new technology but is anyone asking their views? Partnerships, set up between farmers’ organisations and agricultural research institution are proving the value of research that responds to the needs and the demands of the people.
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    Rhetoric or reality? Joint management of natural resources in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Policies promoting joint management (between the state and the users) of natural resources such as forests or water are increasing in India and elsewhere: decentralised administration has advantages that are tempting. However, joint management, implying as it does a redistribution of power, is profoundly political.
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    The politics of poverty: is pro-poor politics possible?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Politics is widely viewed as inherently problematic, and political analysis invoked mainly to try to explain development policy failures. But can political analysis tell us whether governments are likely to be pro- poor? And why are pro-poor outcomes often so difficult to achieve?
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    People power? Managing natural resources in Mali

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Mali’s natural resources were entirely state- controlled pre-1990. Mismanagement increased the impact of drought leading to the degradation of the country’s natural resources. Can the people do better than the state in protecting their resources? Indeed, do local organisations have the capacity to manage the local environment?
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    Growing competition. Allocating funds to improve agricultural research

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many agricultural research systems have performed unimpressively, prompting re- thinking about funding mechanisms. CATFs - or competitive agricultural technology funds - have been adopted in a number of countries in an attempt to make agricultural research and development more efficient, effective, relevant and accountable.
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    Reaching a watershed? Local government reform and water management in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Recent guidelines issued by central government for watershed development in India fit awkwardly with local government or Panchayati Raj. While decentralisation of development planning and implementation are key objectives at both levels, the roles of the proposed Watershed Committees overlap - and potentially compete - with those of the local government.
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    Matching measures. How local authorities and NGOs can collaborate better in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    State authority has been more and more devolved to local and intermediate levels in most African countries since the late 1980s. How has this trend affected relations between nongovernmental organisations and the officials whose job is to run Africa? Can development NGOs stick to old habits despite these rapidly changing power structures?
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    Lessons from Sri Lanka: new ways to improve local government performance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is there a right way to strengthen local government performance? A University of Birmingham study examined contemporary approaches to this challenging task, highlighting the 1985-1995 World Bank Municipal Management Programme in Sri Lanka as a case in point.
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    Countries of West Africa's Sahel: states in transition to a full market economy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The image of the Sahel and of West Africa as it tends to be seen from the outside is dominated by crises: economic crises, food crises, environmental degradation and crises in public services such as education. Growing numbers of observers have come to see crisis as a permanent state, even as a form of historical regression, in West Africa's recent past.

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