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  Decentralization, Local Governance and The Democratic Transition in Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis

  African Studies Quarterly, 1997

  This paper reports the results of a 1995-1996 comparative analysis of local government in the context of current political reforms in South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland in an effort to arrive at the preconditions for efficient and effective local institutions of collective choice and of service delivery.
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  Organisational Roles in Farmer Participatory Research and Extension: Lessons from the Last Decade

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Experience over the last decade suggests that participatory approaches to technical change are falling into two broad camps: public sector approaches are generally part of a client orientation strategy and rarely aim to do more than enhance the functions of technology design and delivery. By contrast, NGO approaches generally aim for the empowerment of weaker groups.
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  Traditional African values and their use in implementing Agenda 21

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1995

  This article argues that efforts to achieve the promotion of sustainable development within the framework of Agenda 21 should be based on reexamining and applying indigenous knowledge and techniques, as opposed to the wholesale importation of Westernized methods and ideas. The aim should be to attain the optimum combination of the best practices from traditional and modern knowledge.
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  IDA 12: A Chance to Deliver on World Bank Promises

  Oxfam, 1988
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  Assessment of group-based savings/credit scheme in rural Pakistan

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998

  This report is the result of a consultancy undertaken between 25.09 and 11.12.97 concerning a detailed study of the savings-credit component of the FAO participatory rural development project "Involvement of the rural poor in development through self-help groups in the rural Punjab" (GCP/PAK/079/NET) implemented by the Faisalabad Agricultural University Pakistan, in collaboration with the Agricult
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  Searching for Impact and Methods: NGO Evaluation Synthesis Study

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1997

  A major component of this part of the study is a summary of the impact of NGO development interventions drawn from studies commissioned by ten major donors. This review encompasses 60 separate reports of 240 projects undertaken in 26 developing countries.
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  The HIV Epidemic and Sustainable Human Development

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
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  The Internet as a Research and Learning Tool: a Review of its Use for the Study of Local Government and Decentralisation in Latin America

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998

  The use of Internet as a research and learning tool is a recent phenomena. Latin American Studies in general, but the area of local government and decentralisation, specifically, may benefit a great deal by using these new approaches. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about the unlimited possibilities for innovation, by using Internet in the mentioned areas.
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  Injecting drug use and AIDS in developing countries: determinants and issues for policy consideration

  AIDS Economics, World Bank, 1996

  Given the extent of HIV transmission associated with drug use, it is important to examine determinants of drug use and related behaviors in developing countries where this is currently a problem, and where this may become a problem in the future. This paper will provide a review of literature on injecting drug use and HIV in developing countries.
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  Rethinking Policy Options for Watershed Management by Local Communities: Combining Equity, Efficiency and Ecological-Economic Viability

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Argues for certain basic re-thinking in the policy options for viable watershed management by combining local knowledge with the formal science through rejuvenated or revitalized traditional institutions. Part one reviews the policy environment in the light of some of the recent reports in India which have a major bearing on watershed development programs.

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