'This report reviews the status of the progress in small island developing states towards implementation of the Mauritius Strategy, with specific focus on agriculture and rural development. Furthermore, it also illuminates the continuing challenges which such states face while putting the strategy into practice.'

'Are you happy? provides a thumbnail guide to the history of new economics and the current work of the new economics foundation. It asks the biggest question facing humanity - do good lives have to cost the earth? - and finds that the answer lies in a new type of economics, economics as if people and the planet mattered.'
This is a New Economics Foundation's (nef's) paper, published in November 2006. PDF format, 31 pp. In English

'Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) first came to prominence in the UK around ten years ago as means of providing loans to people and enterprises excluded from mainstream finance.
The report, Reconsidering UK community development finance, released the 2007 annual conference of the Community Development Finance Association - the umbrella body for CDFIs - finds that the future of CDFIs is uncertain as government and policy-makers have begun to question whether CDFIs have meas more...

This handbook has been written to provide guidelines for developing process of awareness-raising. Theories, principles and techniques are offered in this manual based on the experiences of those who have developed practices that were successful and that met certain expectations. The manual provides guidelines for developing process of awareness-raising focusing on global efforts to promote awareness of Information Literacy. Published by Communication and Information (CI).

'This technical note is the product of a long process of consultation with a wide range of resource persons who have over the years been involved in the Danish support to Community Based Natural Resource Management. It gives a brief introduction to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and how this concept may be used as a development strategy. CBNRM has the triple objective of poverty reduction, natural resource conservation and good governance. This note is a contribution to an o more...

This report outlines key findings from surveys that explored factors that drive online experience as expressed by the three different subject groups – nonprofit organizations and cities, web designers and firms, and the general public. The survey’s major findings are includes in this report.

'This Practice Note provides UNDP staff and other development practitioners with a concise overview of the capacity challenges involved in local development as well as an easily adaptable five-step approach to address them. The note is not meant to be a comprehensive toolkit or guide but rather a review of different approaches to local development from a capacity development perspective based on best practices and lessons learned. The process of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) localisation, wh more...

Africa is plagued with pandemic, such as HIV and malaria. To restrict the spread of these diseases it is imperative to monitor the health of the population and provide timely treatments. However, the lack of infrastructure has limited that access to treatment and monitoring in certain areas. However, using information technology, Rwanda claims to overcome this problem.

'Microinsurance has emerged as an innovation aimed at providing health insurance protection to low-income people against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payments proportionate to the likelihood and cost of the risk involved. The approach places a stress on prevention and health education as first best interventions.'

'The ‘Working for Wetlands’ Programme undertakes wetlands restoration across South Africa. Its guiding principle is to restore degraded wetlands to enhance water supplies and conserve biodiversity for the benefit of society. Also, by employing the most disadvantaged to undertake this task (from six to twenty-four months), the pay, skills and experience obtained provide participants with the opportunity to escape poverty. Hence, the Programme selects its employees from among the long term un more...