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  The PRSP initiative: multilateral policy change and the role of research

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper argues that a key factor behind the acceptance of the PRSP initiative was the level of ownership felt for the idea.
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  Online mobilization and publishing for African civil society

  Information Technology and International Cooperation Programme, SSRC, 2003

  African civil society organizations have begun slowly to appropriate the Internet. Some of them have experienced on line mobilization and publishing. What are the challenges they meet in disseminating information through Internet ? What is the contribution of “social tech organizations” in these online activities? What audience is reached with what impact ?
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  Why cooperate?: a multi-disciplinary study of collective action

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper takes a broad, multi-disciplinary approach to answering the question: why cooperate?
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  CBNRM Net: knowledge management and networking for the global CBNRM community of practice

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2002

  The paper looks at the growing importance of knowledge networking (especially electronic networking), theoretical models of networks and their particular importance in the NGO sector.Using the experience of the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, the paper assesses some of the issues currently facing the global NGO sector, more specifically civil society and NGOs in the South.
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  Aligning needs and means: on culture, ICT and knowledge management in development cooperation

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2001

  The paper discusses building a global online community of practice for people working on community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), namely CBNRM Net.
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  CBNRM Net: from managing natural resources to managing ecosystems, knowledge and people

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2004

  This paper looks at how environmental online communication (EOC) could move beyond an emphasis on information to focus on knowledge (and to management of such knowledge) that can be instrumental in achieving the goals of more equitable and sustainable natural resource management. Using the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net) as a case study, it offers an assessment
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  Network perspectives in the evaluation of development interventions: more than a metaphor

  Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service, 2003

  This paper argues for the use of a network perspective in representing and evaluating aid interventions. The author argues that how the intentions of aid activities are represented has implications for how their progress and impact can be assessed.Using the logical framework, the paper puts forward five main arguments and case examples in favour of a network perspective as the best approach.
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  Sharing knowledge: innovations and remaining challenges

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2003

  This report evaluates how successful the World Bank has been at becoming the ‘global knowledge bank’ it committed to being in 1996.The review finds that over these first six years, the Bank has made progress in establishing the tools and activities to support its knowledge initiative.
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  Strategic communication for development projects: a toolkit for task team leaders

  World Bank Publications, 2003

  This toolkit is designed to help World Bank task managers plan and supervise the implementation of communications activities in population, health and nutrition (PHN) projects. It thus builds on information, education and communication (IEC) literature by linking IEC to PHN activities through the idea of behaviour change.
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  Knowledge and learning in online networks in development: a social capital perspective

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2003

  The paper examines whether the concept of social capital can be applied to facilitate our understanding of online networks in development.

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