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  Enhancing South-South and triangular cooperation: study of the current situation and existing good practices in policy, institutions, and operation of South-South and triangular cooperation

  United Nations Development Programme, 2009

  South-South and triangular cooperation has become a major subject of international development discussions. One of the key issues identified in such discussions is the lack of information on South-South and triangular cooperation implemented by different parties and the need to promote knowledge-sharing on the practices of South-South and triangular cooperation, especially existing good practice.
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  Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in developing countries: challenges and opportunities

  Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, 2010

  Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) were introduced by the Bali Action Plan in 2007 and they have since been interpreted in various ways by different countries and country groupings. A key question for the talks on NAMAs at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009 and beyond is whether the different positions can be reconciled.
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  From privatisation to corporatisation and the need for a counter-strategy

  Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2012

  This report explores the development from privatisation to corporatisation within neoliberal policy on urban water services in developing countries. The findings call for the water justice movement to update and adjust its strategy, in order to counter the neoliberal tactical shift towards corporatisation.
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  Radioactive Revenues: Financial Flows between Uranium Mining Companies and African Governments

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2011

  For African countries, the revenue derived from the uranium mining operations of multinational corporations is despite the high price of uranium minimal, uncertain and volatile. The financial agreements that these countries make with the uranium producers regarding their share in the profits are the primary reason for this state of affairs.
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  IDLO-CISDL compendium of legal best practices on climate change policy

  International Development Law Organisation, 2011

  This paper highlights the challenges that governments face in implementing their international climate change policy commitments and the means to addressing these challenges. The authors note that international action on climate change is a relatively new phenomenon and legal systems were designed prior to the establishment of the multilateral climate change regime.
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  South African Government Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA)
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  Low carbon growth plans: advancing good practice

  2009

  This working paper summarises output from Project Catalyst, an initiative of the ClimateWorks Foundation, aimed at providing analytical support for the UNFCCC negotiations on a post-Kyoto international climate agreement. It seeks to show how to spread best practice around the world effectively by learning from and building upon the experiences of first-generation low carbon growth plans (LCGPs).
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  Guide to ICT policy in IST-Africa partner countries

  IST-Africa Initiative, 2012

  This guide looks at the current status of National ICT policies in each of the current IST-Africa Initiative partner countries.  It identifies what has been achieved to date and provides insight into what implementation challenges remain.  Specifically, the report reflects analysis of existing National ICT plicies for: Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mozambique, N
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  Gender in the 2011 South African local government elections

  Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2011

  The 2011 local government elections that witnessed a decline in women’s representation at the very moment that South Africa should be redoubling its efforts to achieve gender parity underscores the need for a legislated quota for women in national and local elections.
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  ICTs in support of human rights, democracy and good governance

  International Telecommunication Union, 2002

  This paper analyses human rights and governance issues as they pertain to ICTs for the WSIS forum, with a focus on the role of those who protect human rights and foster good governance. The paper is a part of the Strategy and Policy Unit’s (SPU) background papers in preparation for the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003.

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