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Expanding broadband and wireless telecommunications networks
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Holding voice conversations over the internet through wireless networks are beginning to give consumers, small companies and social activists a way of connecting to international networks. Telephony, chat, email, text messaging and video-conferencing improve trust and enhance commerce.DocumentWhatever the weather: media attitudes to reporting climate change
Panos Institute, London, 2006How climate change issues are reported in the media in developing countries is a theme which has, until now, received little attention.DocumentConducting conflict assessments: guidance notes
Department for International Development, UK, 2006This booklet offers DFID staff and partner agencies’ staff guidance notes for analysing conflicts, assessing the effects of aid on conflicts, and developing conflict sensitive policies and programmes.Based on DFID experience in conflict assessment, the authors offer a three step strategy to assessing the impacts of conflict on development programming and the impact of development programming onDocumentIndigenous and tribal peoples: an ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers
International Labour Organization, 2005Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally benefit much less than others from overall declines in poverty.DocumentAsia Tsunami response: rebuilding homes, communities, and lives
World Vision, 2006This report documents how World Vision is working to rebuild communities across five Tsunami affected countries in a community-driven, long-term recovery program.The document considers reconstruction efforts in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia and details the efforts made to construct new homes, provide for children and revive livelihoods in the areas.The report recognises tDocumentSouth Asian Yearbook of Trade & Development
Centre for Trade and Development, 2005This publication is a comprehensive collection of twelve research papers on trade- related topics relevant to the development concerns of South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka).DocumentHome truths: children's rights in institutional care in Sri Lanka
Save the Children, Sri Lanka, 2005The most appropriate place for the growth and development of a child is within the context of his or her family and community.DocumentPotentials and limits of community-based service delivery in post-conflict situations
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006In countries emerging from conflict, there is often urgent need to provide health, education, water and sanitation services. In the absence of a strong and effective state, aid agencies increasingly rely on community-based approaches (CBA). However it is necessary to recognise the limits of CBA in the larger context of state building objectives.DocumentTsunami response: a human rights assessment
ActionAid International, 2006This report from ActionAid outlines how one year after the Tsunami, despite the tremendous efforts of local, national and international agencies, the rehabilitation and reconstruction process is fraught with difficulties.