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  Listening to farmers: Participatory assessment of policy reform in Zambia’s agriculture sector

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998

  Short summary of case for using participatory evaluation methods
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  New technologies and the global race for knowledge

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmenbut achieving that potential depends on how technology is used.
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  UNDP Human Development Report 1999

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  Focuses on issues of inter-dependence and globalisation. Considers how markets have been allowed to dominate the process, and the benefits and opportunities have not been shared equitably. Argues that while many millions of people are being further marginalized by their lack of access to new technologies, including the Internet, growing inequalities are not inevitable.
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  Tree Planting in Indonesia: Trends, Impacts and Directions

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1998

  The aims of the project were as a follows: to identify tree planting activities currently prominent in Indonesiato seek reasons for their ascendancy, with specific reference to influential actors capable of favouring certain activities and holding back others; of particular interest were the activities of regional government agencies which were hypothesised to be more instrumental tha
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  Self-Governance and Forest Resources

  Center for International Forestry Research, 1999

  Outline of theory on community-based institutions and IFPRI’s ongoing efforts to test empirically the theory’s relevance for forest management.Destruction or degradation of forest resources is most likely to occur in open-access forests where those involved, or external authorities, have not established effective governance.
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  Knowledge and Information for Food Security in Africa: from traditional Media to the Internet

  Communication for Development (ComDev), FAO, 1998

  Draws on experiences with a range of communication technologies in Africa - from traditional media to the Internet - to examine the important role of knowledge and information for food security.
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  Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996

  One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.
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  Structural Policies for the International Competitiveness in Manufacturing: the Case of Cameroon

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  Presents the main developments in the manufacturing industry in Cameroon, based on firm-level data covering the 1980-95 period. The emphasis is on structural factors of competitiveness. A production function and an export function are estimated in order to study the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) and export performance.
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  Participatory Evaluation? Yeah, That's Fine, but We Want a Conventional Report!: A Case Study of the Perils of Designing and Implementing a Participatory Evaluation

  Action Evaluation Project, ARIA Group, 1997

  Experiences with a participatory NGO evaluation in Uganda. Highlights the difference in expectations of evaluator and the evaluated
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  Participatory evaluation in programmes involving governance decentralisation: A methodological note

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 1996

  In the last twenty years or so the changing aims and settings of development assistance have rendered obsolete conventional approaches to the planning and management of development activities.

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