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Forests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.DocumentCan all cash transfers reduce inequality?
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.DocumentHospital governance in Latin America: results from a four nation survey
Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2007This World Bank discussion paper reports on a survey of hospital governance in Latin America involving nearly 400 hospitals in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.DocumentLatin America: the downside of the GM revolution
Center for International Policy, 2007The author argues that nowhere in the world have the effects of GM crops been felt as intensely as in South America. Although the soy boom is lauded as a success story by landowners, agribusiness, biotechnology corporations, and South American governments, the article claims this has come at an enormous environmental and social cost.DocumentCutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.DocumentEducation for all by 2015: the good news
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Since 2000 enormous steps have been made towards achieving universal enrolment at primary education level. More girls are in school than ever before. Aid has supported effective national efforts in many countries. There is a ‘Dakar effect’ – evidence that working towards common education goals can strengthen countries to change individual lives.DocumentMAC HIV and AIDS global survey
MAC AIDS Fund, 2007This study from the MAC AIDS Fund looks into the attitudes of 4,510 people in nine countries around the issue of HIV and AIDS. The results show a poor level of education about the HIV and AIDS epidemic; more than 40 percent of those interviewed across the nine countries do not believe that AIDS is always fatal.DocumentWomen’s literacy training using ICTs
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007About 18 percent of adults worldwide remain illiterate, the majority of them women and mostly from the poor sectors of society. How common is the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for women’s literacy training and what strategies can help ensure a project is successful?DocumentAdvocating for Abortion Access: Eleven Country Studies
Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2001What factors influence a country's legal position on abortion? This publication isDocumentMaking government budgets more accessible and equitable
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Involvement in the budget process in poor countries has traditionally been limited to a select group of political actors. But this has changed over the last decade with legislators, civil society groups and the media playing a more active role. What impact is broader engagement having?Pages