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    Turning rhetoric into action: building effective partnerships to combat extreme poverty and exclusion

    ATD Fourth World, 2008
    In order to tackle the persistent and increasing problem of poverty, it is necessary to concentrate on more than just economic growth or the improvement of social or welfare services. A partnership approach to tackling poverty is also needed. The best informed experts on poverty are those who face it on a daily basis.
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    Project management: handbook series for community-based organisations

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005
    Community-based organizations (CBOs) are not new to managing projects, but usually the approach is instinctive, driven by discussion, trial and error. This can lead to frustration for the parties involved.
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    Capacity 21 Kendelevu toolkit: A manual for trainers in participatory and sustainable development planning

    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2006
    Partnerships bring all the stakeholders in a community together to support sustainable development initiatives and to develop a common vision for the community. This toolkit provides methods for facilitators on participatory planning which can be used to assist communities to formulate and implement their community action plans.
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    Gender in agriculture sourcebook

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
    This extensive resource provides guidance for the development of rural agricultural strategies that effectively promote gender equality and women's empowerment and reduce poverty.   The Sourcebook is the outcome of a collaboration between the World Bank, The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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    The EMPOWERS approach to water governance: guidelines , methods and tools

    EMPOWERS Partnership Programme, 2007
    Water is an increasingly scarce and contested resource around the world, particularly in the Middle East. There is general agreement about the need to improve water governance - the process of making and implementing decisions about water.
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    Building national campaigns: activists, alliances, and how change happens 

    Oxfam, 2007
    Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multiple challenges.
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    From poverty to dignity: a learning manual on human rights based development

    Dignity International, 2007
    Human rights provide a moral, authoritative, and legal framework to tackle root causes of poverty, deep-seated structures of discrimination, and the processes of impoverishment from local to global levels. A human rights framework not only offers distinctive strengths but also specific tools for development work.
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    Toolkit to promote transparency in local governance

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2004
    Inadequate governance at the local level affects the poor in many ways, often enhancing exclusion. Lack of participation means that the poor often do not have a choice in determining their own development needs and priorities.
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    Rapid guide for missions: analysing local institutions and livelihoods

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    How can project planners better identify and understand the different types of formal and informal local institutions affecting rural livelihoods? How can project design incorporate these insights? This practical guide prepared by the FAO aims to assist field missions in better understanding how institutions affect the poor.
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    Network Capacity Analysis – a toolkit for assessing and building capacities for high quality responses to HIV: workshop facilitation guide

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2007
    Civil society networks play a vital role in supporting and developing key services required to respond to the HIV epidemic. Those networks that represent communities key to the dynamics of HIV transmission are particularly important, specifically in their involvement in decision making and programming around HIV.

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