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  Projects for the poor and excluded: lessons from Community Development Programme in Nepal

  Rural Reconstruction Nepal, 2009

  Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, recently witnessed a decade-long Maoist insurgency. Public service delivery became irregular, infrastructure fell into disarray and poor people’s livelihoods were disrupted.
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  GuideStar International (GSI)

  GuideStar International (GSI), a UK-registered charity, is aiming to build a global network of websites with detailed reports on countries’ civil society organisations (CSOs) to make them mor
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  Stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural innovation: cases from Sub-Saharan Africa

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2005

  This bulletin focuses on experiences in Tanzania and Benin with stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural research and development. This paper discusses how the reorganisation of funding mechanisms for agricultural innovation, with stakeholder management, could combine greater efficiency.
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  Controlling corruption: auditing versus community participation

  Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, 2008

  What is the best way to control and measure corruption? This paper outlines a method devised by the author which measures corruption and uses it to evaluate alternative strategies to reduce corruption on an Indonesian road-building project. Two types of strategies were tried: encouraging community participation and increasing the probability of audits.
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  Learning to Live Positively: a key development tool for promoting “treatment preparedness” amongst HIV/AIDS-affected rural communities in Africa

  2009

  Community learning processes are crucial to increasing resilience to HIV/AIDS in Africa’s remote rural areas.
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  The Paris Declaration: how CSO transparency and information can increase democratic ownership and accountability

  GuideStar International, 2008

  This article argues that although the Paris Declaration is an important step in establishing an international consensus on aid, its ability to make aid work in the long term is questionable without the availability of publically available, reliable, qualitative and quantitative information on civil society organisations (CSOs).This type of transparency and accountability it is argued, will serv
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  Taking the State to court

  Asia House, 2001

  This book deals with the concepts of good governance and related issues concerning the relationship between state and society, and specifically the viability of representative democracy.
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  Speaking out: how the voices of poor people are shaping the future

  Oxfam, 2009

  This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation  in policy making and accountability. Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby for changes in their situation include:
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  Public oversight of the security sector: a handbook for civil society organizations

  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2008

  Governments tend to keep a tight reign on the security sector. Under pretexts of national security - especially in recourse to a ‘war on terror’ - the state’s security apparatus, and actions, are frequently closed to public scrutiny.
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  Impact of Stepping Stones on incidence of HIV and HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial

  British Medical Journal, 2008

  Stepping Stones, a 50 hour programme, aims to improve sexual health by using participatory learning approaches to build knowledge, risk awareness, and communication skills and to stimulate critical reflection.

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