Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Powercube : understanding power for social change

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: Powercube.net
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  • Keywords: social development, social justice, popular participation, governance
Powercube.net is a resource for understanding power relations in efforts to bring about social change. Powercube.net contains practical and conceptual materials to help us think about how to respond to power relations within organisations and in wider social and political spaces.

African centre for citizenship & democracy

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: University of the Western Cape. School of government
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  • Keywords: local government, democracy, civil society, community participation, south africa, southern africa
The African Centre on Citizenship and Democracy (ACCEDE) studies the factors and policy environments which support or inhibit the development of a more inclusive citizenship in the region and continent. It replaces the Centre for Southern African Studies.

Natural resources and environment = Ressources naturelles et environnement = Recursos naturales y medio ambiente

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: Food and agriculture organization of the United nations (FAO)
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  • Keywords: natural resources, land tenure, land rights, water management, agricultural development, forest management, climatic change
These web pages provide key information related to land, water and genetic resources, and the access to and tenure of these resources. They also address the challenges and opportunities of bioenergy, agriculture, fisheries, and forestry in the light of climate change.

Project browser

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: Canadian international development agency (CIDA)
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  • Keywords: decentralization in government, local government, popular participation, civil society, development assistance, canada
The \"project browser\" of the Canadian International Development Agency allows all projects to be browsed within the democratic governance sector, including those concerned with decentralization and support to sub-national government, democratic participation and civil society, and public finance.

Policy & practice blog : the latest news, stories, reports, opnion and analysis from Oxfam policy & practice staff around the world : subject: governance

| 2011-
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  • Publisher: Oxfam GB
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  • Keywords: nongovernmental organizations, civil society, women, popular participation, governance
Oxfam Policy & Practice staff blogs on governance issues and gives the latest news, stories, reports, opinion and analysis from around the world.
 

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