How can climate change considerations be incorporated into all stages of agricultural investment (farming, fisheries, livestock and forestry) programme cycles? This guide intends to raise awareness and understanding of the basics of climate change adaptation and mitigation in the agricultural sector. It advises using key information sources, methods and tools for climate change ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Climate change, disaster risk and the urban poor: Cities building resilience for a changing world.
High concentrations of people and economic assets, often in hazard-prone areas, means cities are vulnerable environments. The report analyses the vulnerabilities and risks of cities with a particular focus on the urban poor and the city's adaptive capacities. It explores how the urban poor are at risk from climate change and natural hazards, the role of basic services in ...» more
Food security and climate change
This report examines the impact of climate change on food security. It argues that climate change will have detrimental impacts on food security and agricultural systems: reducing the productivity of existing food systems; harming the livelihoods of those already vulnerable to food insecurity; and increasing the challenges of providing clean water. It offers a number of ...» more
Cities and children: The challenge of urbanisation in Tanzania
Cities are becoming home to a growing proportion of Africa’s children. In Tanzania, already one in four lives in an urban centre – and many more will in coming years. This study aims to provide policymakers and others with an understanding of the impact of current urbanisation trends on Tanzania’s urban poor, especially children. It suggests that cities provide an opportunity ...» more
Building resilience in a complex environment
The 2011 Horn of Africa food crisis demonstrated that building community resilience is more urgent than ever. This paper highlights the impact of CARE's four-year Regional Resilience Enhancement Against Drought Programme (RREAD), including finding the optimal balance of approaches that result in increased food and livelihood security. It suggests that building resilience must ...» more
Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
This report is one of the outcomes of the UN Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, adopted by the General Assembly in 2010. It is the first of its kind and marks the launch by UNODC of a series of global reports on trafficking in persons. The purpose of this report is to inform about human trafficking patterns and flows. For that, UNODC has based the analysis ...» more
Interventions to Reduce the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in African Countries
This paper aimed to review the empirical research on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in African countries, and the empirical research on contextual factors that may help explain the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of such interventions. The study used an integrative evidence approach, whereby analyses of ...» more
Thematic global evaluation of the Commission support to decentralisation processes
This Report presents the outcome of the “Thematic global evaluation of the Commission support to decentralisation processes”. The purpose of the evaluation was to identify relevant lessons and to provide recommendations to help ensure opportune and timely support to decentralisation processes.The evaluation covers EC aid delivery over the period 2000-2009 (within the context of ...» more
Access to Justice and Legal Pluralism in Fragile States: The Case of Women’s Rights
There has been a growing trend of interest in informal justice systems, primarily based on the idea that they are more accessible and supported by local communities. However, due to a lack of guidance and best practices on how to engage informal justice systems, many practitioners operate under the assumption that its advantages outweigh any failure to comply with human rights ...» more
The Impact of the CEDAW Convention: Paths to Equality
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations over thirty years ago. It has been an important tool used by national and international advocates for the equality of women, and the Committee established under the Convention has played a significant role in encouraging the implementation of the treaty. This paper ...» more
Mainstreaming Gender Equality: A Road to Results or a Road to Nowhere?
This report is an evaluation synthesis to examine experiences in mainstreaming gender equality across multilateral and bilateral donor organisations; and in so doing, to highlight trends (commonalities and differences) in findings, challenges faced, and good practices. This synthesis looked at 26 thematic and country evaluations, undertaken between 1990 and 2010, that focused ...» more
Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, 2012-2018
The National Action Plan sets out what Australia will do, at home and overseas, to integrate a gender perspective into its peace and security efforts, protect women and girls’ human rights, and promote their participation in conflict prevention, management and resolution. It also commits the Government to report every two years to the Australian Federal Parliament on the ...» more
Women’s health, men’s health, and gender and health: Implications of intersectionality
Intersectionality challenges practices that privilege any specific axis of inequality, such as race, class, or gender and emphasizes the potential of varied and fluid configurations of social locations and interacting social processes in the production of inequities. Although intersectionality is now recognized in the context of women’s health, men’s health, and gender and ...» more
Religion and Peacebuilding: Reflections on Current Challenges and Future Prospects
What role does religion play in peacebuilding? American and European nongovernmental organizations, agencies in the U.S. government, academia, and international organizations—sectors that once held religious issues at a distance or understood religion mainly as a driver of violence—increasingly engage religious communities and institutions as partners in creating peace. ...» more
Introducing Hybrid Peace Governance: Impact and Prospects of Liberal Peacebuilding
International efforts to promote peace and democratic institutions frequently clash with different understandings of the meaning and implications of these terms. International and domestic actors enter into a bargaining relationship whereby each actor attempts to promote its own values, norms, and practices. The end result is a condition of hybrid peace governance, in which ...» more
Peace dividends and beyond: Contributions of administrative and social services to peacebuilding
This multi-partner United Nations study seeks to determine whether the UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) should increase its support to administrative and social services, and if so, to what types of programming. The study reviews current thinking and practices among United Nations agencies, funds and programmes alongside some of their partners in the areas of administrative services ...» more
Losing the Ability to Dream: Afghan Perceptions of UK Aid
This report examines the effectiveness of official UK development assistance delivered to Afghanistan since 2001. Over 100 people were either interviewed or invited to participate in small workshops during August-September 2011 to gauge the way Afghans perceive the past, present and future prospects in their country, as well as the specific contribution of UK aid to ...» more
Against Stabilization
This paper is a critique of the concept and practice of stabilization as practiced by leading states from the global north in peace support interventions.It begins by noting how the concept of peace has been side-lined in recent years and has been supplanted by ‘stabilization’, ‘security’ and other concepts that are based on ideas of control. It then charts how the term ...» more
Coherent planning and prioritisation
A fundamental principle of development today is that the governments of partner countries should lead and guide planning and prioritisation exercises, rather than the donor country. However, countries in transition face particular challenges that limit government-led planning and prioritisation. This chapter asks how stricter and more realistic prioritisation can be achieved ...» more
State Fragility: Towards a Multi-Dimensional Empirical Typology
This paper proposes an approach to empirically identify country groupings that are each characterised by a distinct constellation of state fragility. It builds upon a theoretical framework that distinguishes three dimensions of statehood: authority, legitimacy and state capacity. The study argues that current approaches towards measuring fragility do not properly account for ...» more
