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Institutional Assessment: A framework for strengthening organizational capacity for IDRCs research partners
Author : Charles Lusthaus
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 088936771X
Institutional Assessment: A framework for strengthening organizational capacity for IDRCs research partners
Author : Thomas Vinod
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic book
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Author : Anatole F. Krattiger
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Theresa Scavenius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317309782
In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial to understand and address how effectively different political institutions can and should react to climate change. The term 'institutional response capacity' can be defined as a measurement for how effective political institutions may respond to threats and challenges such as climate change. This book sets out to provide a venue for the discussion of how to conduct climate politics by offering new perspectives on how social and political institutions are capable of responding to climate change. In doing so, the book explores how democracy, institutional design and polycentric governance influence social and political entities’ capacity to mitigate, adapt, address and transform climate change. The book offers building blocks for a new agenda of climate studies by focusing on institutional response capacity and by offering a new approach to climate governance at a time when many political initiatives have failed. This interdisciplinary volume is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the areas of anthropology, political science, geography and environmental studies.
Author : UNCTAD.
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Page : 63 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : David Stephens
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1873927223
For the past 25 years UK Higher Education institutions have forged research and teaching partnerships with their counterparts overseas. Many of these links were funded by the British Government and managed by the British Council’s Higher Education Links Scheme. This book takes an informed and critical look at issues and trends in global higher education over the past twenty five years with an in-depth and often personal account of how these links were managed and led. Ten experts representing a variety of disciplines from areas such as conserving the natural environment, the promotion of human rights, and education and gender present an ‘insider’s’ view of their link, reflecting upon the successes and challenges in promoting research, developing institutional capacity at home and abroad, and the lessons they have learned. This book will be of particular interest to those working in higher education and international development generally; as well as students, researchers and professionals engaged in bilateral and multi-lateral development assistance programmes.
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309164346
Marine environments support the livelihoods, economies, and quality of life for communities around the world. But growth of coastal populations and increasing demands on marine resources are putting the future of ocean and coastal resources at risk through impacts such as overfishing, wetland drainage, climate change, and pollution of coastal waters. Given these demands, it is vital to build capacity-the people, the institutions, and technology and tools-needed to manage ocean resources. Unfortunately, many capacity building efforts focus on specific projects rather than on capacity building as goal unto itself, resulting in activities that are not funded or sustained past the typically short project lifetime. This book finds that the most successful capacity-building efforts meet the needs of a specific locale or region based on periodic assessments and include plans to maintain and expand capacity after the project ends. The report recommends ways that governments and organizations can help strengthen marine protection and management capacity, including conducting periodic program assessments, making plans to sustain funding, and developing leadership and political will. The book was produced at the request of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the President's Circle of the National Academies, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Marisla Foundation, and the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation.
Author : Economic Development Institute (Washington, D.C.)
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Technical assistance
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Author : Goran Cars
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351786334
This title was first published in 2002: Urban governance has faced numerous challenges as city governments, their partners and their critics struggle to transform themselves in the context of post-industrial economies and societies. This context has generated new relations of economic life and social activity to be accommodated in cities, and has also changed expectations of the roles, relationships and modes of governance. New conceptual tools to analyze these experiences are becoming available, linked to a broad "institutionalist" wave of ideas sweeping right across the social sciences. This text responds to the challenges faced by urban governance and explores a range of efforts to build new institutional capacities. An international team of social scientists and practitioners critically analyzes conceptual challenges, policy developments and practical experiences.