'UIL has played an important role in the international Recognition, Validation and Accreditation of Non-formal and Informal Learning (RVA) agenda since 2004, when UNESCO’s General Conference entrusted UIL with conducting and disseminating research and practice on RVA, on an international scale.
The Synthesis Report on Recognition, Validation and Accreditation is a collation of the UIL (formerly UIE) survey of recognition, validation and certification policy, practice and challenges in 36 c more...
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At the 2005 World Summit in New York, leaders of UNDP and UNEP announced a major partnership to scale-up support for country-led efforts to integrate poverty-environment concerns into the mainstream of development planning and investment. Building on previous work by both organizations, the Poverty-Environment Initiative took shape as a joint UN programme committed to the challenging task of operationalizing the concepts and aspirations of the poverty-environment agenda. In the subsequent 3 year more...
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(UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative, March 2009)
This new primer provides guidance on presenting evidence about the economic, development and poverty reduction benefits of the environment to public sector decision-makers, so as to justify and promote “environmental investment.” This primer is designed to help interested countries and governments engaged in the environmental mainstreaming challenge to succeed in making their case, ensure that they have the evidence to back it up, and more...
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(UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative, April 2009)
Experience continues to show the vital contribution better environmental management can make to improving health, resilience to environmental risks, economic development and livelihood opportunities, especially for the poor. Poverty-Environment mainstreaming is one possible way. It aims to integrate the linkages between the environment and poverty reduction into government processes and institutions, thereby changing the very nature of its more...
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'This paper summarises the events of a workshop on institutional collaboration in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The workshop was held in Pakistan in March 2009, and discussed the participatory research in livelihoods that two Norwegian organisations conducted in Afghanistan. The paper states that this work has great potential for contributing further toward capacity and institution building in Afghanistan in several rural development sectors, including water and sanitation (WATSAN).'
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project of the World Bank reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2007, for six dimensions of governance:
* Voice and Accountability
* Political Stability and Absence of Violence
* Government Effectiveness
* Regulatory Quality
* Rule of Law
* Control of Corruption
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Many people are depressed about the state of global development, and especially about the failures of development in Africa. The per capita GDP of rich countries has diverged more and more from that of poor nations and it has become clear that it is hard to raise economic growth rates. However, there is good news: the Malthusian trap of population exceeding carrying capacity seems to have been avoided globally, and health and education status are improving faster than income. This work holds tha more...
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