'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.'
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This training manual and the accompanying training program have been prepared to meet the needs of partners for improved guidance and training during the production of Global Environment Outlook (GEO) and other associated integrated assessment reports. Although the skills and methods outlined here closely reflect those developed for GEO, they were designed to be applicable to all integrated environment assessment reports at the national and regional levels, as well as in other contexts
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'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
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'The rise of social entrepreneurship has resulted in an increasing number of businesses seeking to maximise both social and financial returns. Like traditional businesses, social enterprises need equity capital to grow and achieve their strategic objectives. nef's research indicates that traditional equity markets pose a challenge to many social purpose businesses because of their single-minded focus on profit maximisation, short term perspective, and speculative nature, which does not value s more...
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'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...
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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).
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This Safety Report provides more detailed information on the methods available for the evaluation of uncertainties in deterministic safety analysis of Nuclear Power Plants and practical guidance in the use of these methods.
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