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    Reconnecting Serbia through regional cooperation

    Stanley Foundation, 2002
    This paper is part of a Stanley Foundation’s Euro-Atlantic Initiatives project to examine ways of promoting “habits of cooperation” in Southeastern Europe.
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    Capacity building by human rights organisations: challenges and strategies

    Columbia University Library, 2002
    This paper argues that capacity building is crucial in providing resources and training to strengthen the frontline of the human rights movement, and to connect local struggles to a global movement towards the promotion and protection of human rights.The rise of democracy and growth of local human rights organisations has prompted international human rights organisations to rethink previous str
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    Integrating vertical programmes into sector wide approaches: experiences and lessons

    HLSP Institute, UK, 2001
    Does the transition to sector wide approaches (SWAps) in the health sector risk reducing the impact of previously successful initiatives covered by vertical health programmes?
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    Programme support and public finance management: a new role for bilateral donors in poverty strategy work

    SIDA Studies, 2002
    Development assistance provided by international donors must be administered effectively if it is to achieve a lasting reduction in poverty. This study, produced by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), highlights the importance of setting up good public finance management systems in recipient countries so this goal can be met.
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    Structural adjustment, civil society and national cohesion in Africa

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    National cohesion and how the perceived roles and transformation of civil society under Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) have impacted on the chronic problem of statehood in Africa is an often neglected aspect of the politics of adjustment, but confronted in this paper.The first section presents an overview of the concept of civil society in the World Bank's perspective of SAP.
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    Policy advocacy: the case of Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA)

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA) has been singled out in this case study because it has demonstrated an impressive capacity in policy advocacy in Tanzania. Its policy advocacy strategy focuses on women and children rights in social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Tanzania's societal public.
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    Civil society and governance in a regional and community context

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2001
    The role of civil society and governance as contributors to greater equity between and within communities is the focus of this paper. Civil society, of course, performs other meritorious functions for host communities but the emphasis here is reserved for its contribution in reducing social disparities by taking care of its own and the stranger.
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    Political aid and the making and re-making of civil society

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    In the last two decades or so, nearly all northern governments and agencies have increasingly directed their activities to problems relating to the institutional restructuring of the state and widening the space for private markets.
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    The emergence of Chinese civil society and its signficance to governance

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    In Chinese history, civil society was contained within the political state. The emergence of a relatively independent civil society is therefore a product of modern China.
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    Civil society and governance case study of land distribution programme to Kol tribals in Chitrakot district Uttar Pradesh

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The Kol tribals of Chitrakoot district live a life of abject poverty, exploitation and almost complete subjugation to the feudal landowners, locally known as Dadus. A local civil society organisation, the Akhil Bhartiya Samaj Sewa Sansthan (ABSSS) has adopted a multi-pronged approach to simultaneously address three sets of issues which it felt were crucial for improving the lot of the Kols.

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