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Journal article

Building synergies in development research: is it time for the Mosaic Approach?

01/11/2008

14 pages long

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Overview

Development research has responded to a number of charges over the past few decades. For example, when traditional research was accused of being ‘top-down’;, the response was participatory research, linking the ‘receptors’; to the generators of research. As participatory processes were recognised as producing limited outcomes, the demand-led agenda was born. In response to the […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights: Putting people at the heart of climate change policy

09/09/2008

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: Chinese, English, French, Polish, Portuguese

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Climate finance

Overview

Climate change is set to undermine human rights on a massive scale. International human-rights law states that, ‘In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.’ But – as the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has documented in detail – rich countries’ continued excessive greenhouse-gas emissions are depriving millions […]

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Case study

How Change Happens in the Private Sector

14/06/2008

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper summarises the main factors that brought about change in two private companies, and their implications for civil society actors aiming to generate more pro-poor change in the private sector.

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Issue briefing

Business and the Millennium Development Goals: Your call to action

01/05/2008

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The MDGs were adopted in the context of increasing global insecurity, and poverty was perceived as a key factor fuelling it. The role of business, albeit important, was seen as no more than complementary to the obligation of the international community to meet the Goals. Consequently, the private sector was called upon primarily to ‘make […]

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Briefing note

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Sector in Peru

22/04/2008

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

“This document has been prepared by Social Capital Group on behalf of Oxfam América. In it we discuss the Social Corporate Responsibility (SCR from now on) of mining companies that are now operating in Peru. Our approach is essentially practical, based in the analysis of the social behavior of these corporations in their relation with […]

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Briefing note

Golden Rules

31/03/2008

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

Around the world, large-scale metals mining takes an enormous toll on the health of the environment and communities. Gold mining, in particular, is one of the dirtiest industries in the world.

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Journal article

Governance of the Amman water utility

01/02/2008

12 pages long

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Overview

In 1993 the World Bank assisted the Ministry of Water and Irrigation of Jordan in updating a review of the water sector, and thus began the process of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in service provision to improve the efficiency of the water sector and wastewater services. In this article, the privatisation of water and wastewater […]

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Journal article

Private health insurance in Uganda: bridging the gap in public health provision?

01/02/2008

4 pages long

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Overview

This article discusses two organisations currently providing voluntary private health insurance in Uganda and considers their contributions to bridging the gap in provision in the country’s public health sector. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Case study

Case Study on the Phelang Community Centre: Facilitating multi-sectoral collaboration in Limpopo, South Africa

11/10/2007

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Multi-sectoral collaboration is an effective strategy to achieve societal learning and change, through addressing large development issues including economic, social or infrastructure development. The strategy requires collaboration between government (the public sector or the state), businesses (the private sector) and civil society organisations. This case study aims to explore and understand multi-sectoral collaboration in the […]

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Research report

Hidden Treasure?

01/02/2007

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Extractives

Overview

In search of Mali’s gold-mining revenues

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