advocacy
'Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Training of Trainers Manual on Advocacy Strategies for Community-based Organisations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas', and its companion 'Resource Manual', were developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the HKH region. The manuals are intended to provide useful guides for conducting regional and local-level training on...
Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Training of Trainers Manual on Advocacy Strategies for Community-based Organisations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, and its companion Resource Manual, were developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the HKH region. The manuals are intended to provide useful guides for conducting regional and local-level training on...
During 2006, InfoAndina led a meeting of the Andean Initiative (AI) of the Mountain Partnership (MP) held in Lima. This meeting was attended by representatives from the Initiative’s member countries, as well as from the Main Groups. The meeting was jointly called by InfoAndina and the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Department, with the financial support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat...
Within the framework of the collaboration between the Mountain Partnership and the Mountain Forum a stocktaking exercise has been carried out in the period 2007- 2008 by the African Mountain Forum (AMF) and the Mountain Forum Secretariat (MFS). This report gives the background for the exercise; it outlines the process and activities undertaken and specifies the results.
During the...
ICIMOD is the first International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. It was established to serve the HKH through an ambitious mandate that gave it the responsibility to mobilize knowledge and disseminate it, along with skills necessary for its use. The acquisition and dissemination of relevant knowledge related to mountain development in the Hindu Kush–Himalayas is ICIMOD’...
Cet article montre comment le projet « Mener le changement » ("Driving Change" en anglais) a utilisé le plaidoyer et le renforcement des capacités en Indonésie pour garantir que la voix des pauvres, et des femmes en particulier, fasse partie intégrante des processus de planification gouvernementaux pour lutter contre la pauvreté. Il se...
This paper shows how the ‘Driving Change’ project in Indonesia used advocacy and capacity-building to ensure that the voices of poor people, especially women, became part of government planning processes to alleviate poverty. It focuses on people’s participation at village level as a key entry point, leading to advocacy for policy change at district and national levels. It...
Este documento demuestra cómo el proyecto “Impulsar el Cambio” en Indonesia utilizó la incidencia y la capacitación para garantizar que las voces de las personas pobres, en especial de las mujeres, pasen a ser parte de los procesos oficiales de planificación para aliviar la pobreza. Se centra en la participación de las personas a nivel de aldea...
This paper presents an analysis of the broad themes of disagreement in these consultations and more generally among those concerned with poverty reduction. It has to be noted first of all that there is agreement in areas where there would not have been consensus two decades ago and any discussion of disagreements has to start with an acknowledgement of these areas of agreement. However, there...
The argument for distance education (including e-learning) in developing countries could be imagined as a “triple jump.” Each leap of the triple jump consists of a theorem and a corollary applying it to developing countries.
Theorem 1: Education is good for development.
Corollary: The demand for education is especially high in the developing world....
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