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Decentralization and human development: findings and recommendations from a review of national human development reports
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006This 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.DocumentThe Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006The 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.DocumentChildren as informed participants in governance
Child Rights Information Network, 2006In 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.DocumentMeanings of citizenship in Latin America
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005This paper introduces the Latin American debate on the meanings of citizenship.DocumentTriumph, deficit or contestation?: deepening the "deepening democracy" debate
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006This paper focuses on emerging debates in the "deepening democracy" field.DocumentPolicy Engagement: how civil society can be more effective
Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2006This 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.DocumentCivil society's perspective on their involvement in PRSP monitoring: assessing constraints and potentials in Nicaragua
Alliance Sud, Swiss Alliance of Development Organisations, 2006Based 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.DocumentAntiretroviral globalism, biopolitics, and therapeutic citizenship
International Development Research Centre, 2004This chapter from the book Global Assemblages explores how AIDS is producing new forms of actors and subjects, such as therapeutic citizens.DocumentSuccessful governance reforms in two Indian States: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006This paper analyses governance reforms in two southern states in India’s federal system, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.DocumentThe people shall govern: a research report on public participation in policy processes
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006This 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.Pages
