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  Human rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002

  This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.
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  Local institutions, poverty and household welfare in Bolivia

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper seeks to establish the extent to which historical factors contribute toward formal governmental systems and their insertion into the overall social organizational context, in terms of basic service provision and poverty reduction.
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  Limits of conditionality in poverty reduction programs

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002

  The paper focuses on how to optimally design conditionality for poverty reduction when the objectives of the donor and those of the recipient are not perfectly aligned.The authors found 3 important resultsconditionality entails distortions and is responsible for an inefficient allocation of resourcesaid policies should be tailored according to the recipient government's preferences
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  The action of non-governmental organisations: between the state and civil society

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  The 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.
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  Louder voices: strengthening developing country participation in international ICT decision-making

  Panos Institute, London, 2002

  At its Genoa Summit in 2001, the G8 asked its Digital Opportunities Task Force (DOT Force) to draw up proposals promoting more effective, universal participation in international decision-making around information and communication technologies.In support of this objective DFID commissioned a study from the Commonwealth Telecommunications organisation and Panos London which had three main objec
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  Experiences on decentralisation of the Lao Swedish Forestry Programme

  Mekonginfo, 2001

  The paper presents experiences of decentralisation in the LSFP.
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  Strengthening the knowledge and information systems of the urban poor (KIS)

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002

  Poor 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?
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  Human Development Report 2002: deepening democracy in a fragmented world

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2002

  The Report urges a new emphasis on “deepening democracy” at the local, national and international level.
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  Advocacy tools and guidelines: promoting policy change

  CARE International, 2001

  This manual is a training guide designed to familiarise program managers with key advocacy concepts and techniques.The paper looks at the ways to contextualise policies, or the lack of them, in order to develop the most appropriate strategies to influence policy decision-makers.
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  Financing for development: finding the money to eliminate world poverty

  International Development Committee, UK, 2002

  UK government commitee finds that meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will require an additional US$50 billion in aid per year, a doubling of current aid levels.

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