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    Seen and heard: involving children in responses to HIV and AIDS

    Panos Institute, London, 2009
    This document looks at the involvement of children, including young children, in responses to HIV and AIDS and examines issues around children's participation. It explores the challenges of enabling children to express their views and priorities effectively and suggests how they can best be supported through a range of appropriate media and communication approaches.
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    Defying the odds: lessons learnt from Men for Gender Equality Now

    African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2009
    How can we tackle gender based violence? In 2001, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) created an African network of male activists against gender-based violence.
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    The barefoot guide to working with organisations and social change

    The Barefoot Collective, 2009
    This is a practical do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways. The guide, with its supporting website, includes tried and tested concepts, approaches, stories and activities and was developed by a global team of collaborating practitioners and activists.
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    Governance and citizenship from below: Views of poor and excluded groups and their vision for a New Nepal

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2009
    Latent and violent unrest has plagued Nepal since the process of parliamentary politics was reintroduced in 1991 after 50 years of monarchical rule. This document focuses on grassroots experiences and understandings of governance and citizenship, and the implications of these for state building in post-conflict Nepal.
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    Changing their world: concepts and practices of women's movements

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
    What do we mean by women’s movements and what makes a movement feminist? Why are movements important and what are the differences between movements and organisations? What are the issues facing women’s and feminist movements today?
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    Brazilian experiences of participation and citizenship: a critical look

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Since the end of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the mid-1980s, democratic innovation has become the hallmark of this vibrant and populous country. Innovations in participatory governance, such as participatory budgeting and participatory sectoral policy councils and conferences have provided crucibles for new meanings and expressions of citizenship and democracy.
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    Hearing community voices: grassroots perceptions of an intervention to support health volunteers in South Africa

    Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, 2008
    With the scarcity of African health professionals, volunteers are earmarked for an increased role in HIV/AIDS management, with a growing number of projects relying on grassroots community members to provide home nursing care to those with AIDS – as part of the wider task-shifting agenda. Yet little is known about how best to facilitate such involvement.
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    Democratising engagement

    Demos, 2008
    Citizen engagement has become an essential part of modern government. Governments around the world are starting to realise that engaging their citizens more in shaping the decisions that affect their everyday lives improves legitimacy, as well as the quality of public services. This online pamphlet begins by looking at different ways of thinking about engaging citizens in governance.
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    Rude accountability in the unreformed state: informal pressures on frontline bureaucrats in Bangladesh

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    The massive expansion of social service provision in the 1990s in Bangladesh has meant the state is now a larger presence in the lives of the poor. The terms though of its interaction with those citizens remain largely unreformed, more strongly marked by the culture of patronage and deference
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    Transforming security and development in an unequal world: introduction

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Ruling administrations often determine security policy and direct its apparatus for the 'benefit of society'. But is security something to be grateful for, or a citizens’ right? Rather should security be determined by the concerns of ordinary citizens and so incorporate a range of perspectives to reflect the differing needs of the different sectors of society?

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