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  Decentralization and human development: findings and recommendations from a review of national human development reports

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006

  This study looks at some of the many ideas and approaches used by the Human Development Reports (HDRs) to address decentralisation in specific countries and communities from a human development perspective.
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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  Children as informed participants in governance

  Child Rights Information Network, 2006

  In the recent past some progressive researchers have provided the space for children to ‘participate’ more intimately in the research process by giving them the role of information providers, key informants or data collectors. The impact of such research has been more beneficial to children and the resulting policies more constructive.
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  Meanings of citizenship in Latin America

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper introduces the Latin American debate on the meanings of citizenship.
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  Triumph, deficit or contestation?: deepening the "deepening democracy" debate

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This paper focuses on emerging debates in the "deepening democracy" field.
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  Policy Engagement: how civil society can be more effective

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2006

  This paper outlines how civil society organisations (CSOs) can engage more effectively in government policy processes.The first part of this report shows why and how better use of evidence by CSOs is part of the solution to increasing the policy influence and pro-poor impact of their work.
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  Civil society's perspective on their involvement in PRSP monitoring: assessing constraints and potentials in Nicaragua

  Alliance Sud, Swiss Alliance of Development Organisations, 2006

  Based on perception of civil society representatives in Nicaragua, this study assesses constraints and potentials of civil society involvement in poverty reduction strategy (PRS) monitoring processes in Nicaragua.
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  Antiretroviral globalism, biopolitics, and therapeutic citizenship

  International Development Research Centre, 2004

  This chapter from the book Global Assemblages explores how AIDS is producing new forms of actors and subjects, such as therapeutic citizens.
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  Successful governance reforms in two Indian States: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This paper analyses governance reforms in two southern states in India’s federal system, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
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  The people shall govern: a research report on public participation in policy processes

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006

  This research paper critically investigates some of South Africa’s post-apartheid policy-making processes, in order to assess the extent to which ordinary citizens have been empowered to understand policies and articulate their opinions, needs and aspirations in relation to these policies.

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