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    Developing local capacity for management of natural resource conflicts in Africa: a review of key issues, approaches, and outcomes

    FRAME, 2005
    This research paper critically evaluates the key issues and approaches in community-based natural resource conflict management. This assessment is done in light of USAID’s recent framework "Nature, Wealth, and Power" (NWP). The purpose of the framework is to provide a clearer understanding of challenges and options regarding natural resource conflicts and attempts to manage or resolve them.
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    Between resilience and resistance: promoting progressive culture in Africa

    ESA Centre for Earth Observation / ESRIN, 2004
    The report addresses the challenges and opportunities of civil society building (CSB) in Africa focusing on politics, economic and social mobilisation. The findings offer guidance to NGOs on how to better respond to sustainable development in Africa.
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    Revenues and governance in sub-saharan Africa: summary for the African Commission

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    In this submission to the UK Africa commission the author summarises, with a focus on policy implications, what he believes to be an emerging consensus about governance issues in Africa. He argues that donors must consider the long-term political and governance implications of the receiving country before intervening and consider how an intervention will affect sources of ‘state revenue’.
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    Coordination amongst donors required to tackle corruption

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Corruption damages political reform and affects economic growth and investment in developing countries. Poor communities are the ones most affected. Donors now place importance on the need for a coordinated approach to delivering aid, but have they been successful in combining aid assistance with anti-corruption programmes?
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    Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.
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    Aid beyond the wave: how effective has post tsunami reconstruction and rehabilitation been?

    Eldis News Weblog, 2006
    Aid agencies have responded to criticism over the tsunami aid effort with a plethora of reports outlining their response to the crisis. These have frequently considered common questions regarding aid distribution, reconstruction and rehabilitation over such a varied geographical and cultural landscape.
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    Security system reform and governance

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2005
    This document presents the Security System Reform (SSR) and governance recommendations of the OECD Development Assistance Committee.
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    Keeping an eye on the campaign: monitoring media coverage of the 16 days of activism: no violence against women and children campaign

    Media Monitoring Project, South Africa, 2005
    This report is an analysis of media coverage of the 2004 "16 days of Activism: No Violence Against Women" campaign in South Africa. The study also compares media coverage of gender-based violence and woman and child abuse over the last seven years. The authors also present MMP’s strategies for the campaign including their process for selecting companies as partners.
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    Governance and state effectiveness in Asia

    Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006
    Governance offers an opportunity to address existing and emerging challenges on growth and poverty reduction in Asia.
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    Does NGO aid go to the poor? empirical evidence from Europe

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    This paper studies the aid allocation of European nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). Once population is controlled, poverty consistently appears as the main worldwide determinant of NGO aid allocation.

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