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rssRealising the Potential of Civil Society-led South-South Development Cooperation
Author: Moilwa, T.
Publication date: 2015
Civil Society Organisations from the BRICS countries and Mexico are now leading a huge range of South-South Development Cooperation (SSDC) initiatives. These organisations have a significant role to play in the post-2015 development cooperation landscape.
Inclusion, Resilience, Change: ADB’s Strategy 2020 at Mid-Term
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publication date: 2014
The midterm review of Strategy 2020 provides the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a precious opportunity to draw on its vast experience over the first 5 years of the strategy's implementation.
Gender justice and climate justice: community-based strategies to increase women’s political agency in watershed management in times of climate change
Authors: Figueiredo, P. & ; Perkins, P.E.
Publication date: 2011
This paper discusses South-North initiatives and models for community-based environmental and climate change education which are using the democratic opening provided by watershed-based governance structures to broaden grassroots participation, especially of women, in political processes.
Women’s participation in green growth – a potential fully realised?
Author: von Hagen, M. & Willems, J.
Publication date: 2012
This study analyses opportunities and challenges for women’s participation in green growth in developing countries. The purpose of the study is threefold:
- to shed more light on the gender dimension of green growth, especially in the context of private sector development and thus fill a knowledge gap in the green growth discourse
- to validate women’s contributions to green growth and sustainable private sector development
- to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality
Youth participation in governance and monitoring of the post-2015 framework
Author: Davis, A., de la Harpe Bergh, G. & Lundy, A.
Publication date: 2014
This paper argues that young people, the majority of whom live in developing countries, should be included as key stakeholders in the post-2015 agenda - not only within the goals and targets of the framework, but also in post-2015 monitoring and accountability mechanisms.
Capacity, complexity and consulting: lessons from managing capacity development projects
Author: Datta, A., Shaxson, L. & Pellini, A.
Publication date: 2012
In the past few years, the ODI’s Research and Policy in Development Programme has increasingly collaborated with or managed large multiyear projects where it has been responsible for helping local institutions and organisations to build their capacity to use knowledge to improve policies and practices.
Setting aside the issue of knowledge-to-policy links, this paper serves to 1) reflect on what capacity is and how it develops; 2) identify implications of this for approaches used to promote capacity improvement processes; and 3) assess what this means for funding
practices.
Dynamic systems and the challenge of sustainability
Author: Scoones, I. et alii. (for STEPS Centre)
Publication date: 2007
Dynamism, uncertainty and complexity dominate today’s world. Yet many policy interventions ignore this, and so often fail. What is missing is a rigorous and systematic approach to addressing dynamics, one that encompasses an understanding of complex system dynamics and provides a useable guide to action. This paper is a first attempt by the STEPS Centre to address this challenge.
Engaging BRICS: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society
Author: John, L. (study supported by Oxfam India)
Publication date: 2012
This paper explores ideas and insights for civil society engagement with the BRICS agenda, based largely on interviews held with 34 representatives of the development sector, academia and media within BRICS countries and outside.
Key Components of Systems Change
Authors: Kendrick, M.J. et alii.
Publication date: 2006
This paper is the first in a series of three papers on unlocking the code of effective systems change. In this paper, the authors attempt to create an overall framework for the discussion of systems change and to give a summary of the concepts discussed in all three papers.
In addition, this paper includes several specific recommendations that can be applied now by any grantee, state, or program to enhance prospects of achieving enduring change in home- and community-based services.
Partnerships in Development Practice: Evidence from multi-stakeholder ICT4D partnership practice in Africa
Author: Unwin, T.
Publication date: 2005
The central aim of this paper is to problematise the notion of partnership in development practice, with particular emphasis on partnerships in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). It seeks to challenge taken for granted ideas concerning such partnerships, and it argues that those involved in such initiatives need to have in place formal concepts about their structure, organisation and intention.
