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  Press coverage of climate change issues in Nigeria and implications for public participation opportunities

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013

  Nigeria faces a lot of environmental problems such as extensive gas flaring, deforestation, and desertification with serious consequences on climate change. How are these issues covered and framed by Nigerian newspapers?
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  Indigenous women's preferences for climate change adaptation and aquaculture development to build capacity in the Northern Territory

  National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, 2013

  Research was carried out on South Goulburn Island, Northern Territory, to improve understandings of local, Indigenous people’s dependency on marine resources, and of their perspectives on climate change, and aquaculture as a means towards adapting to climate change.
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  Lakshya: cash-flow game for rural households

  2013

  Evolving from an action research project conducted in the Vidarbha areas of Maharashtra, India, the need for a comprehensive yet simple participatory cash-flow toolkit was realised to help rural households in recognising patterns, shortfalls and strengths of their cash-flow profiles.
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  African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS)

  The AOSIS eCPD® division offers accessible further education (CPD) for professionals.
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  Adaptation toolkit: guidebook for community-based adaptation practitioners

  Energy, Environment and Development, 2013

  Senegal’s Energy, Environment and Development (ENDA), in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), have jointly developed a toolkit for undertaking climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning.
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  Unlocking the power of local knowledge: a novel framework to cost community-based adaptation to climate change

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012

  Current approaches to identify the costs and benefits of adaptation are primarily quantitative, using top-down methodologies that may grossly underestimate the true costs. This policy brief argues that global policies require credible evidence from the local level.
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  A new global partnership: eradicate poverty and transform economies through sustainable development

  2013

  The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda's report sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 through sustainable development.
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  Indigenous peoples and climate change in Africa

  Legal Assistance Centre, 2013

  Through two participatory case studies, this paper examines the impact of climate change on the indigenous peoples of Namibia.
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  Community participation in water and sanitation programmes

  2013

  Gram Vikas is a voluntary organisation working in the eastern state of Orissa in India since 1979. Through the process of MANTRA (Movement and Action Network for Transformation of Rural Areas), it has been implementing a water and sanitation programme across the state which stresses participatory planning and implementation.
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  Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces

  Zed Books, 2013

  This chapter from the book, 'Spaces for Change: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas' discusses the gendered construction of participation in local institutions created by the state in India to promote development and democracy.

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