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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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    An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department
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    Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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    Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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    Guidelines for Participatory Nutrition Projects

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1995
    Guidelines to help development staff working at community level to promote the design and implementation of participatory nutrition projects.Designed for use by professional staff from different technical and institutional backgrounds, who have had formal technical training or education, and who either work at the community level or are responsible for community development activities.
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    Participatory Impact Monitoring (PIM)

    German Appropriate Technology Exchange, 1996
    Short, simply written pamphlets explaining methods and justifications for participatory monitoringSeries includes: Group based impact monitoringNGO-Based impact monitoringApplication examples
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    Toward Distinguishing Empowerment Evaluation and Placing It In A Larger Context

    American Evaluation Association, 1997
    Critique of Fetterman's empowerment evaluation methodology Fostering self-determination is the defining focus of empowerment evaluation and the heart of its explicit political and social change agenda.
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    Community based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up

    Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
    This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.
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    PVO/NGO tools for household and business impact assessment: report of a planning meeting (Edgcomb / AIMS)

    microLINKS,, 1999
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    Corruption : the issues

    OECD Development Centre, 1997
    Corruption comes in many varieties. In different countries it has different determining factors, forms and impacts on development. In any given context, effective policy design calls for an accurate understanding of how corruption functions in that context.

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