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Bogor 2012: Workshop Report
Asia and the Pacific, Land Governance, Report, UNDP ProducedThis workshop report presents the outcome of the Participatory Governance Assessments Knowledge Exchange Meeting 17-18 April 2012, Bogor - Indonesia. The UN-REDD Programme is currently piloting four PGA pilots (Ecuador, Nigeria, Vietnam and Indonesia) which are in different stages of preparation and implementation. In our dialogue with the PGA practitioners and stakeholders, they have expressed...
Realising rights, protecting forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation: Case studies from the Accra Caucus
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Land Governance, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyThe Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from 38 countries, formed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2008. The Caucus works to place the rights of indigenous and forest communities at the centre of...
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Land Governance, Report, Civil SocietyThis paper is a discourse on social exclusion in Nepal. It aims to identify statistically significant economic and social development differences between castes and ethnic groups. It reports on the changes in poverty levels and other human development indicators that have taken place during the conflict period. All indicators are disaggregated by caste and ethnic group,...
Program evaluation of agricultural input subsidies in Malawi using treatment effects: methods and practicability based on propensity scores
Africa, Land Governance, Public Administration, Report, Academic/Think TankThe study evaluates the impact of two agricultural input subsidies in Malawi during the 2003/04 and 2006/07 production periods on household income. The study employs quasi-experimental econometric techniques that use propensity score matching to control for selection bias on beneficiaries. A household model for each dataset is estimated together with Average Treatment Effects on the...
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Land Governance, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyFirst UN publication on the state of the world’s indigenous peoples reveals alarming statistics on poverty, health, education, employment, human rights, the environment and more. In the United States, a Native American is 600 times more likely to contract tuberculosis and 62 per cent more likely to commit suicide than the general population. In Australia, an indigenous...
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,...