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DOUBLE ISSUE - 50th special participatory learning and action
… by London WC1H 0DD, UK. Recherche et de Planification Participa- the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Tel: +44 (0)20 7388 2117 tive (MARP), and many others. The … Email: [email protected] the full participation of people in the and Development (IIED), Participatory Website: www.iied.org processes of …
Publication, 01 October 2004
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in the Great Hall of the People, uniformed in identical suits, red ties, and side-parts.
China’s leadership transition
… continuity . Hu’s speech duly rehearsed the slogans “peaceful development”, “creating a beautiful China”, and “socialism with Chinese … The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says the gap between urban and rural incomes has jumped 68% since 1985, creating one of the widest … work hard to build a beautiful country, and achieve lasting and sustainable development of the Chinese nation”. Environmental targets …
Insight, 27 November 2012
RRA 19 cover
RRA Notes 19: Training
… and sharing;  new learning environments for professionals and rural people to develop capacities; and  new institutional environments, … improved linkages within and between institutions.  The most sustainable solutions lie in the overlapping central sector of these … Andy Inglis and Janice Jiggins RRA training in a UK-based rural development course Mick Howes PRA exercise in an Indian village – a …
Article, 01 February 1994
Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge
… In thousands of rural communities from Bolivia to Bangladesh, traditional knowledge …
Article, 09 November 2009
Making sure the poor benefit from ecosystem services
… O’Brien, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for … development of a new 117 hectare mangrove forest, potentially made sustainable through carbon markets. Making carbon into a commodity can … pose an additional barrier to the efforts of individuals and poor rural communities to demarcate, and gain title to the land on which …
Insight, 08 February 2012
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
… communities Participatory urban appraisal? practitioners and urban development agents included in this special issue. Over the past 18 … the Human The papers are more about raising crucial Settlements and Sustainable Agriculture questions and identifying key issues than … this theme from both World Bank, do such methods make a urban and rural perspectives. In this overview, significant addition to the range …
Publication, 01 January 1994
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 21 Training village analysts: from PRA methods to process
Publication, 01 January 1994
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 12 Participatory shaping of institutional landscapes
Publication, 01 January 1996
A view from distance of dozens of buildings in close proximity on a hill
Karachi, informal settlements and COVID-19
… working as contract employees and day-wage labourers, back to rural areas, mostly to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan’s north-western … work programme to physically improve UC and establish sustainable health, education and IT related programmes which build on …
Insight, 06 May 2020
Surveying residents in the settlement of Tank Mohalla, Bangalore, India (Photo: CSTEPIN, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Local democracy as a substitute for data (and rather a good substitute too)
… who suffer deprivations as legitimation for the entire aid and development business. Data to measure and monitor the global goals and … have agreed to (or hopefully will agree to within the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is also an enthusiasm for … sample sizes are too small to show who within a nation's urban (or rural) population is facing deprivation, the nature of their needs or …
Insight, 16 January 2015