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Citizen participation, green NGOs and political agenda
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000This paper aims to update and analyze the performance of the main environmental NGOs, evaluating the problems they face today.DocumentCan local institutions reduce poverty?: rural decentralization in Burkina Faso
World Bank, 2001This paper argues that in Burkina Faso certain high-performing local institutions contribute to equitable economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization.DocumentQuality participation in poverty reduction strategies: experiences from Malawi, Bolivia and Rwanda
Christian Aid, 2002This research, commissioned by Christian Aid in Bolivia, Rwanda and Malawi, aims to assess the quality of people’s participation in the process of producing Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), by looking at who participated in the process, how people’s expectations influenced the outcome, the impact of the political context, and the role of the structure of the participatory processThe rDocumentThe action of non-governmental organisations: between the state and civil society
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000The study investigates the mutual influences generated by encounters between governments and organisations of civil society, in order to understand the extent to which these contacts involve transformations in both governemnts and the civil society.DocumentUnions and civil society in contemporary Argentina
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 1999Faced with economic, political and social changes and pressing internal divisions, the union movement in Argentina is now presented with the dillemma of whether to work as social intermediary or as opposition to the new Alianza government elected in 1999.DocumentThe human rights movement, citizen participation organizations, and the process of building civil society and rule of law in Argentina
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000The paper challenges the 'adversarial' approach to democracy in the pluralist model, in which political preferences are negotiated between different factions in a 'win or lose' game that leaves no space for building social consensus.DocumentExperiences on decentralisation of the Lao Swedish Forestry Programme
Mekonginfo, 2001The paper presents experiences of decentralisation in the LSFP.DocumentStrengthening the knowledge and information systems of the urban poor (KIS)
Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002Poor men and women living in urban informal settlements do need knowledge and information to cope with risks and improve their livelihoods, but they sometimes find it hard to access. How do the urban poor obtain information and develop knowledge? Do they get what they require and is it appropriate?DocumentParticipation, policy and urban poverty
CARE International, 2001This report summarises the findings of research to assess whether poor city residents have benefited from Commitment C of the Habitat Agenda, concerning participation and enablement.The barriers to participation of city dwellers found included:the lack of opportunity to engage in any aspect of city governmenta lack of timethe perception of city dwellers that government services