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  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention

  Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994

  Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English
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  The Internet as a Research and Learning Tool: a Review of its Use for the Study of Local Government and Decentralisation in Latin America

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998

  The use of Internet as a research and learning tool is a recent phenomena. Latin American Studies in general, but the area of local government and decentralisation, specifically, may benefit a great deal by using these new approaches. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about the unlimited possibilities for innovation, by using Internet in the mentioned areas.
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  An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department
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  Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), World Bank

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999

  Report synthesizes the results of individual evaluations completed during the previous calendar year; It provides an overview of the Bank's portfolio performance
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  Participatory Organizational Evaluation Tool (POET)

  Communication Initiative, 1998

  Tool and procees to (a) measure and profile organizational capacities and consensus levels in seven critical areas, and assess, over time, the impact of these activities on organizational capacity (benchmarking).
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  Poverty and Environment: Turning the Poor into Agents of Environmental Regeneration

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  The poor adapt and learn to live with poverty in a variety of ways. They also try to cope with shocks from events such as droughts, floods and loss of employment. Environmental resources play a vital role in their survival strategies. As the poor depend on environmental resources, one can expect them to have a stake in their preservation. Much of the damage done to natural resources is by others.
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  Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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  Assessing the Need to Manage Conflict in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Considers the role of ‘conflict management assessment’ in community-based natural resource projects. The importance of conducting an assessment of the potential for conflict and its management in relation to a project intervention is stressed, and an assessment framework described.
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  Toward Distinguishing Empowerment Evaluation and Placing It In A Larger Context

  American Evaluation Association, 1997

  Critique of Fetterman's empowerment evaluation methodology Fostering self-determination is the defining focus of empowerment evaluation and the heart of its explicit political and social change agenda.
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  Learning What Works: A 20 year Retrospective View on International Water and Sanitation Cooperation

  UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 1998

  Traces the developments which have guided thinking and action in the water and sanitation sector since the UNDP-World Bank Water and Sanitation Program's inception in 1978, and analyzes how the Program has affected -- and been affected by -- these developments.The book is divided into three sections.

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