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  Participatory communication: a key to rural learning systems

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2003

  Access to knowledge and information is a vital component in enabling the poor to participate fully in social change. This paper is an attempt to focus on some issues in the vast field of communication and education for development.
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  Communication for development: a medium for innovation in natural resource management

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2004

  This document presents, through stories and examples, the experience of many people and projects worldwide where communication methods and approaches have been applied to address natural resource management problems.Drawing on experiences in Africa, Asia and North America, the paper outlines differing working definitions of natural resource management, with particular emphasis on the role of co
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  Successful communication: a toolkit for researchers and civil society organisations

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2005

  This toolkit is for researchers and practitioners who wish to communicate to policymakers. The tools are therefore specifically geared towards the needs of researchers and practitioners in civil society organisations (CSOs), including development NGOs, research institutes, think tanks, universities and networks.
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  The link between research programmes and bilateral and multilateral development policies sub-Saharan Africa

  Global Development Network, 2004

  Sub-Saharan African countries have realised in recent years the centrality of higher education as a means to achieve development. Indeed through enhancing the production of knowledge and know-how, research becomes an engine of endogenous and sustainable development.
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  Board governance and independent evaluation: lessons and implications for GEF from modes of interaction between boards and evaluation units of international organizations

  Uma Lele, Personal Website, 2005

  The purpose of this comparative review is to identify lessons from the ways in which the evaluation units of international organisations interact with the managing boards of those organisations.
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  Freedom and responsibility: representative on freedom of the media

  Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2005

  This document outlines the global position of the media in 2004. Arguing that media is the very essence of the contemporary connotations of knowledge, the report outlines how the role of the media reflects democracy and freedom within society.The reports focuses on the growth of the internet which has increased the availability and volume of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ content.
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  Choosing the right projects: designing selection processes for North-South research partnership programmes

  Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries, 2005

  This manual aims to help readers to design, revise, and implement project selection processes in North-South research partnership (NSRP) programmes.
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  Converting policy research into policy decisions: the role of communication and the media

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  Policymaking for poverty reduction and food security in many developing countries is rather ad hoc and does not fully use research-based information. Why is this?
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  Contributing to the scientific literature: citation analysis of CIFOR publications

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2005

  This paper documents a citation-counting exercise, listing the amount of times that CIFOR work was referenced in journal articles. The study examined a total of 1437 publications over the period from 1993 to mid-2004.The main findings are:of the 1437 publications, 24% have been cited.
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  Knowledge generation for poverty reduction within donor organizations

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2005

  Effective poverty reduction relies on knowledge of poverty and poverty reduction. It also depends on the kinds of knowledge that emerge from, and inform, the activities of donor organisations. This paper draws upon evidence from the World Bank's programme in Indonesia to illustrate this point.

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