Putting learning at the centre: adaptive development programming in practice
Why and how learning needs to be at the centre of adaptive development programming.
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New rules give donors too great an incentive to invest in the private sector
What counts as aid? As donors increasingly base their strategies on mobilising private investment, they need to provide greater clarity about what they're really spending.
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Population change in the rural developing world: making the transition
Across the world, rural areas are going through a demographic transition from high to low levels of fertility and mortality
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Resilience Scan: October-December 2015
This resilience scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the last quarter of 2015, focusing primarily on the context of developing countries.
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The triple transition of a slowing China, lower oil prices and a higher US dollar
This report considers how China’s economic developments, lower oil prices and a higher US dollar stand to impact 12 Sub Saharan African economies.
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Clamping down the greens
Chandigarh: Chandigarh, which is known for its lush greenery may lose much of it to iron clamps around trees. The clamps are suffocating the trees they were supposed to protect.
A few residents lodged
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Bizmen to plant 6,000 trees by September in Noida
City-based industrialists have decided to plant 6,000 saplings across the industrial sectors over the next six months.
"We have decided to undertake the green drive after a discussion with the district
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St. Lucia Launches 10-Year Strategy to Regulate Use of Forests
SAN JUAN – The government of St. Lucia announced Tuesday the launch of a 10-year plan to regulate the use and conservation of defined forest areas.
The key priorities for National Forest Strategy are
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Leonardo DiCaprio travels to Sumatra to support rainforest conservation efforts
The actor worked with local groups to at Mount Leuser National Park, where the ecosystem that helps regulate Earth’s climate faces developmental threats
Fresh off a best actor win at the 2016 Oscars
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Using political economy analysis in conflict, security and justice programmes
This guidance note provides a framework for implementers of conflict, security and justice programmes to conduct political economy analysis.
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Evaluating the impact of flexible development interventions
Evaluating the impact of development projects that aim to be flexible and responsive is a big ask. But not impossible.
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NGT notice over IIT campus in Jammu
The transfer of 159 hectares of land to establish an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Jammu district has come under the scanner of National Green Tribunal’s scanner which has sought the Government’s
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HP forest dept fights to impose NGT ban
The forest department, which generally takes care of tree covers and forest land, has quite a different job to do in Manali. Department officials have waged a war against all tourism activities in their
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Govt. to plant 15 lakh new trees, but old target remains
AAP is 30,000 trees short of its FY 2015-16 target to plant 13 lakh trees
The Delhi government is planning to set itself the ambitious goal of planting 15 lakh new trees in financial year 2016-17, even
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Ogun moves to check global warming with 1.5m tree seedlings
The Ogun State government has concluded arrangement to begin the distribution of 1.5 million tree seedlings to the state’s nine forest reserves in a strategic move to contain climate change.
The Commissioner
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Corporate sector help boost forest cover through CSR spending: minister
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Zahid Hamid, stressed the need for exploiting massive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) potential to address the country’s shrinking forest cover by large-scale
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Poland approves large-scale logging in Europe's last primeval forest
Greenpeace accuses government of ignoring scientists over fate of Białowieża woodland, home to 20,000 animal species and Europe’s tallest trees
Poland has approved large-scale logging in Europe’s last
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Forests and Fresh Water: Reviving Rwanda’s Gishwati Forest
Forest of Hope Association has increased Gishwati’s forest area from 886 to 1,484 hectares, implemented entrepreneurially-funded fencing to keep out cattle, and overseen a reduction in illegal exploitation of forest resources.
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Bringing taxation into social protection analysis and planning: guidance note
A Guidance Note to facilitate analysis of the poverty and inequality impact of government taxes and transfers and the implications of tax policy on social protection
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Bringing taxation into social protection analysis and planning
A Guidance Note to facilitate analysis of the poverty and inequality impact of government taxes and transfers and the implications of tax policy on social protection
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