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    Helping developing democracies to get better at delivering services to the poor: some early lessons from the public management and citizenship program, Brazil

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    This paper outlines the early lessons learned from the Public Management and Citizenship Program set up in Brazil in 1996. The programme is one of ten similar initiatives in the USA, China, Philippines, Africa and South America, which are all supported by the Ford Foundation. The aim is to identify, analyse and disseminate innovative practices amongst sub-national Brazilian governments (i.e.
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    Global democracy: civil society visions and strategies, G05 conference report

    Montreal International Forum / FIM-Forum for Democratic Global Governance, 2006
    This is a report on the proceedings from the Global Democracy: Civil Society Visions and Strategies (G05) Conference in Montreal, Canada (May 29-June 1, 2005).The report discusses the two main questions: in light of the shifting trends in global governance, what are civil society's proposals to build a more democratically governed world?
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    Making Philippine cities child friendly: voices of children in poor communities

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005
    This study analyses how the Philippines’ national Child Friendly Movement, which has engaged government, NGOs, civil society, children and UNICEF, has enhanced the capacity of local governments, communities and young people to fulfil the rights of the poorest children.The study uses participatory methodologies and reflects the viewpoint of children and the community.
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    Governance in the gullies: democratic responsiveness and leadership in Delhi’s slums

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005
    This study uses qualitative and quantitative analysis to examine the strategies developed by the urban poor in Delhi to access government services.
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    Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming?: experiences of popular participation in Bolivia

    Oxfam, 2005
    This article provides a critical analysis of an attempt to effectively mainstream gender into the political process in Bolivia. The Law of Popular Participation (LPP), which was implemented in Bolivia from 1994, is widely seen as the first significant attempt by policy makers in the region to mainstream gender into a national development initiative.
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    Subsidy or self-respect? Community led total sanitation: an update on recent developments

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper is an updated version of an IDS working paper focusing on processes of Community Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS - an approach which facilitates a process of empowering local communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines without the support of any external hardware subsidy.
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    The effects of unions on productivity: evidence from large coffee producers in Guatemala

    Centro de Investigaciones Económicas Nacionales, Universidad Francisco Marroquin-CIEN, Guatemala, 2003
    The main purpose of unions is to improve the welfare of their members, principally by raising wages above the competitive level. However, they are generally perceived by producers as negatively affecting firms and productivity.
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    In whose name?: political representation and civil organisations in Brazil

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Civil society actors are gaining increasing recognition, particularly for their perceived capacity to represent the needs and rights of those at grassroots level in a formal political context, and to thus act as intermediaries of the poor and vulnerable.
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    Women, political parties and social movements in South Asia

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    This UNRISD occasional paper - addressing issues regarding women, parties and movements in South Asia - was written for the preparation of the report, ‘Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world’.
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    Avante consulta!: effective consultation

    Policy Power tools, 2005
    This tool proposes a set of steps that aim to empower communities in local consultations intended to identify:who has the rights to manage natural resources in an area, andhow this management should be carried out and monitored.The tool has been written within the context of the policies regarding land and forestry rights in Mozambique.

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