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    NGOs, gender mainstreaming and urban poor communities in Mumbai

    Oxfam, 2005
    This article argues that NGOs working at the community level can play an important role in supporting women to challenge customs and beliefs which perpetuate unequal gender relations.
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    Potentials and limits of community-based service delivery in post-conflict situations

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In 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.
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    Capacity development for policy advocacy: current thinking and approaches among agencies supporting civil society organisations

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    ODI’s Civil Society Partnerships Programme (CSPP) is designed to enable civil society organisations to use evidence and engage with policy processes more effectively, establishing partnerships with Southern NGOs.
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    Aid allocation criteria: results based frameworks and aid to difficult partnerships

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005
    This report describes the different factors that donors take into account when determining their allocations of aid to countries, with a special focus on those that do not achieve "good performer" status.
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    Enhancing the development capabilities of civil society organisations, with particular reference to Christian faith-based organisations (CFBOS)

    ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2005
    This paper considers a recent paradigm shift favouring the role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as recipients and implementers of development assistance. The author focuses on the capacities and performance of the diverse group of agencies termed Christian Faith-based Organisations (CFBOs).The document considers CFBOs relative strengths and weaknesses in pro-poor development activity.
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    Making European aid democratic

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    European Community (EC) development aid claims to be focused on poverty reduction, human rights, participation and democracy. But it is debatable how much civil society organisations influence the Country Strategy Papers that determine how this aid is distributed. 
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    Non-governmental organisations in development: adapt or perish

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Aid agencies are moving towards performance targets. Social movements are increasingly influential in the South. Government counter-terrorism measures are taking up resources. Non-governmental organisations working in international development face an unprecedented set of challenges and opportunities. They must adapt – to survive.
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    Time to focus on India’s poorly performing states

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Differences in wealth between Indian states are increasing and central government efforts to promote greater inter-state equity have been disappointing. Aid, investment and central government revenues have often gone to better-off states because needy states have been labelled ‘difficult’ places to work in.
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    Civil society and the OECD

    OECD Development Centre, 2005
    This Policy Briefing describes some of the many channels of communication that are open for productive dialogue between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and civil society, particularly around the topic of globalisation.
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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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