Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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World Bank, November 2005. Payoffs of successful e-development projects are huge and can produce dramatic returns across a range of sectors in countries poor and rich alike if the risks involved are managed properly. This report urges both developed and developing countries to learn from past l...
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IICD, 2005, 72 pp. This book highlights achievements in the use of ICTs in Latin America, in the hope that this experience will be useful to other countries and that successful approaches will be replicated and scaled up. The book highlights activities, outputs and impact of the programme, less...
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CIDSE/Caritas Internationalis, September 2004. This paper looks at whether the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach has been adopted by donors and low-income country governments is a genuine framework for policy-making. It finds that this is rarely the case.
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T. Willard et al., IISD, 2005, 220 pp. Researchers from six countries look at the emerging relationship between sustainable development and the information society. The potential of ICTs to contribute to a more sustainable world is limitless. The challenge is to bring the policy communities tog...
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UNDP, Oslo Governance Centre, 2005. The guide offers a snapshot of more than 300 civil society organizations (CSOs) working on democratic governance at the global and regional levels. It provides information on CSOs across UNDP’s seven priority democratic governance areas or service lines.
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Feb 2006UNDP, 2005. Emerging technology options could make a significant difference to network access, delivery of services and economic and social opportunities for poorer rural communities. They can drive down costs and make maximum use of community resources, enabling the emergence of new business/d...
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Feb 2006First Monday, November 2005. In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. Now new visual and social technologies are making it possible for people to make decisions and solve complex problems collectively. These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but als...
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Synopsis of Findings of the Africa Forum, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, September 2005. The Africa Forum is a sector-based network of managers and practitioners of PBAs in Agriculture and Rural Development. This year, over 140 people attended the forum, representing 19 African countries. Amongst o...
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Ad Hoc Working Group for Youth and the MDGs, April 2005. Investing in youth will provide the longest and most effective dividend towards meeting the MDGs by building the social capital needed to foster pragmatic development. There are specific ways in which youth and youth organizations can con...
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W.S. Reese et al., International Youth Foundation, 2001. This book looks at the growth in inter-sectoral partnering in recent years, and explores a number of case studies involving IYF and its global Partner network, as well as valuable lessons learned. Highlighted throughout are examples of IY...