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Integrating a Gender Dimension into Monitoring & Evaluation of Rural Development Projects
Framework, Governance and Gender, Land Governance, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe Toolkit for Integrating Gender into Monitoring and Evaluation has been developed to assist project task teams, borrowers and partners to recognize and address gender concerns in designing rural development sector projects, to monitor progress in gender integration during implementation, and to evaluate its impact in achieving overall rural well-being. The toolkit contains among other things...
The Pyramid a Diagnostic and Planning Tool for Good Forest Governance
Civil Society, Framework, Land Governance, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe objective of ’’The Pyramid’: a diagnostic and planning tool for good forest governance is to offer a framework to stimulate participatory assessment and target-setting in forest governance at country level. Wielded by well-facilitated multi-stakeholder processes, the tool can help fill the ‘forest governance gap’ between assessing and accelerating field level progress in sustainable forest...
Gender AwarePrograms and Women’s Roles in Agricultural Value Chains
Africa, Governance and Gender, Land Governance, Policy Document, Inter-Governmental Organization, GovernmentWomen comprise over half of the agriculture labor force and about two-thirds of the trade and commerce labor force in Liberia. Their role in agriculture is important, particularly in food crops, where they are reported to produce over half of the output; their production of cash crops is limited. Access to resources and markets is also significantly constrained—across the population—but women...
Gouvernance locale et biens publics au Niger
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Land Governance, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think Tank, Inter-Governmental OrganizationCe rapport est un des produits du groupe de recherche sur la « Gouvernance locale et les dirigeants locaux » du programme APP (Africa Power and Politics) qui comprend des études de recherche dans sept pays africains : Malawi, Niger, Ouganda, Rwanda, Sénégal, Sierra Leone et Tanzanie. Il propose une synthèse des résultats préliminaires...
Progress in Public Management in the Middle East and North Africa
Arab States, E-Governance, Governance and Gender, Land Governance, Political Parties, Public Administration, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationArab states have been actively reforming public management systems over the past five years. There are pockets of good practice that, if adopted by all countries in the region, would yield an enabling environment for economic growth and social development. The 300-page report includes country case studies and datasets for nine countries from the region and covers nine topics of public...
Doing Business 2010
Civil Society, Human Rights, Land Governance, Public Administration, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationSince 2004 Doing Business has been tracking regulatory reforms aimed at improving the ease of doing business. Despite the challenges presented by the financial crisis, the number of reforms hit a record level this year. Between June 2008 and May 2009, 287 reforms were recorded in 131 economies, 20% more than the year before. Reformers focused on making it easier to start and operate a business,...