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Discussion paper

Towards a characterisation of adaptive capacity: A framework for analysing adaptive capacity at the local level

01/12/2010

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8 pages long

Languages: English

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Interest is growing in supporting vulnerable people and communities to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, and there is a general assumption that there are close links between development and adaptation. Yet our understanding of the impacts that development interventions have on adaptive capacity at the local level remains limited. Most development interventions […]

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Journal article

Linking evidence with user voice for pro-poor policy: lessons from East Africa

01/11/2010

15 pages long

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Many agricultural research and development projects seek to achieve pro-poor outcomes through policy change. However, policy processes are complex, and a strategic approach to enhancing impact at policy level is often not applied. This article describes two case studies of actual policy change – on dairy marketing in Kenya, and on urban agriculture in Kampala […]

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Journal article

Institutional change: the unanticipated consequences of action

01/11/2010

12 pages long

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This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the largely unintended consequences of project actions, this article argues for viewing change as a complex social phenomenon based […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Civil Society Development and Access to Health Care, Georgia

10/10/2010

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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The ‘Effective Civil Society Development and Improved Access to Quality Healthcare for Poor People in Georgia’ project aimed to strengthen and broaden the existing NGO coalition ‘Future without Poverty’ and monitor ongoing health care reforms. This included reporting possible negative effects to the responsible authorities and main health service providers and pressing for improvements. This […]

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Journal article

Wanted! ‘Strong publics’ for uncertain times: the Active Citizenship in Central America project

01/08/2010

15 pages long

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This article places the experiences of the Active Citizenship in Central America project, led by Dublin City University, within wider discussions on the role of civil society in building democracy and furthering development. The article examines project development and content and assesses its effectiveness, using a framework derived from Nancy Fraser’s (1993) concept of ‘weak’ […]

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Journal article

Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2010

14 pages long

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Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for […]

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Book

Speaking Out: Case studies on how poor people influence decision-making

09/11/2009

1 documents

176 pages long

Languages: English

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Many poor people around the world are denied the opportunity to have their say. Politics generally works well for those in power, but those in poverty are often excluded from forums that directly affect their welfare and so are unable to hold decision-makers to account. Speaking Out describes different ways to strengthen the participation of […]

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Book

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case studies on learning for action

09/11/2009

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

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Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to influence the processes and institutions which shape their lives. The under-representation of women’s voices in decision-making and agenda-setting at all levels mean that their interests […]

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Research report

Civil Society and UNITAID: An introduction

13/10/2009

4 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Access to medicines is a major challenge for people in developing countries. With the right medicines, diseases such as HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria are treatable. Yet for millions of poor people, affordable medicines remain out of reach. UNITAID was established in 2006 as a new public health financing mechanism and a South-North […]

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Journal article

Moved to act: communication supporting HIV social movements to achieve inclusive social change

01/06/2009

13 pages long

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Moved to act: communication supporting HIV social movements to achieve inclusive social change

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Social movements have generated interest in development circles since the mid-1990s as relatively independent expressions of civil society, mobilising people to set their own development priorities and agendas for issues as diverse as water privatisation, neo-liberal trade policies, the rights of women and indigenous peoples, and access to HIV anti-retroviral treatment. In the case of […]

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