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Environment and Poverty
Pumping PovertyThis report, Pumping Poverty, finds that UK government aid is being spent on supporting energy projects, which benefit UK, and US oil companies, but which do little to help the countries where they are based. The research shows that the Department for International Development's (DFID's) policies on oil development are incoherent; they fail the people they are designed to help and compromise the department's mission to alleviate poverty and undermine UK efforts to fight climate change. The report written and published by Friends of the Earth, Plan B and Platform Research, was launched Thursday 17 March as G8 environment ministers meet in Derby to discuss the impact of climate change on Africa.
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Behind Agrarian Crisis
The conventional notion of agrarian distress being part of the broader
landscape of underdeveloped agriculture and backwardness no longer fits the
emerging evidences from rural India.
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Livelihoods
Women self-help groups boost local governance
participation
Opinions
http://www.cseindia.org/programme/pov-env/debate20041208.htm
Forests
ILO's comprehensive report on forest cooperatives in India
NREGA
Download the NREGA Act [Last Update September, 2006]
Panchayat Raj
Panchayat raj round tables
Fifth Roundtable of Minister In charge of Panchayat Raj – Srinagar (JK), 28-29 First Roundtable of Ministers-in-Charge on Panchayati Raj -Kolkata, [July 24-25, 2004] Analysis: 4 th Roundtable (Haryana Panchayat amendments) Fourth Roundtable of Minister In charge of Panchayat Raj- Chandigarh, 7-8 [October 2004]
Third Roundtable of Ministers in-charge on Panchayati
Raj - Raipur,
[September 23-24, 2004]
[August 28–29, 2004]
Policy
Unveiling gross national happinessThe Bhutanese King has unveiled its first ever-governing draft for public debate. The draft, which state a constitutional monarchy vows to protect environment through citizen’s participation and cultural ethos.
Download (.pdf) Tackling disasters: Are we prepared?
This report assesses community preparedness for disasters and discusses its indicators. The points are illustrated with the help of several case studies
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Special
What is people's assessment of the MDGs?
Action policy aid report
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