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Local governance self assessment: guidelines for facilitators
Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009Local government promises to be more responsive to people's demands, more effective in service delivery and more accountable when citizens participate in local governance. This can be achieved through public meetings, grievance procedures, civil society group activities, opinion surveys, elections, and media involvement.DocumentStatelessness and the benefits of citizenship: a comparative study
Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2009Sixty years after the international community embedded the right to nationality in the human rights architecture, approximately twelve million people around the world remain stateless. What are the hurdles to overcoming statelessness and how has citizenship made a qualitative difference in the lives of formerly excluded groups?DocumentPaid work, women's empowerment and gender justice: critical pathways of social change
London School of Economics, 2008This paper explores the contradictions and contestations that characterise debates about the relationship between paid work and women's empowerment.DocumentDevelopment support monitor 2009: Africa in our hands
African Monitor, 2009Although Africa attracted $43 billion in private capital, $40 billion in remittances and $38 billion in aid in 2008 it still faces a considerable resource gap. Such financial support, some would argue, is needed to ensure progressive mobilisation of Africa’s domestic resources and, in turn, social and economic development.OrganisationAfrican Monitor
As a Pan-African body established in 2006, African Monitor aims to assess the link between:DocumentSAS2: a guide to collaborative inquiry and social engagement
International Development Research Centre, 2008Social issues should be addressed socially and in multi-stakeholder mode, not by private interest and experts alone in processes of knowledge production, planning and decision making. This guide is an important step in the creation and mobilisation of practical, authentic knowledge for social change.DocumentCivil society and the new aid architecture
Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, 2009This is a Summary Report of a Panel Discussion on 'Civil Society and the New Aid Architecture' and an Expert Workshop on 'Budget Support and Civil Society Participation' held in Vienna in January 2009. The Panel Discussion focuses on the ‘political' aspects of civil society engagement particularly the new roles emphasising supplementary social accountability measures.DocumentParticipatory approaches: a facilitator’s guide
Voluntary Service Overseas, 2004The benefits of participatory approaches can only be felt if all those involved have a common understanding and set of expectations. This guide, designed for volunteers, partner organisations and staff, is based on VSO’s experience on promoting participation. The authors hope that it will also prove useful to the wider development community.DocumentGood practices in participatory mapping: a review prepared for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2009Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local communities, highlighting important social, historical and cultural knowledge as well as presenting geographical feature information.DocumentAdvancing children’s rights: a guide for civil society organisations on how to engage with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 2009
Plan International, 2008Civil society organisations can play an important part and bring value to the work of the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) in its mission to promote and protect the rights of the child.Pages