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id21 Development Research Reporting Service

Acronym: 
ID21
Website: 
http://www.id21.org

Localização

Reino Unido
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Working languages: 
inglês
Europa
desenvolvimento
pobreza
investigação
zona urbana

Aims to make policymakers and on-the-ground development managers aware of the latest and best in British development research findings. Offers policy-relevant findings on critical global development issues, drawn from over 40 major UK-based economics and social studies departments and think-tanks, together with a wide range of NGO research departments and consultants.

Service is divided into sectors:

  • Society and Economy
  • Health
  • Education
  • Urban Poverty

Provides email highlights service. Also hosts the online version of Insights periodical.

Funded by DFID, the UK national aid agency.

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id21 Development Research Reporting Service Resources

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Library Resource

Demand responsive urban planning: neighbourhood participation in infrastructure improvement

Janeiro, 2002
Posse Urbana
Terra, Mudanças Climáticas e Meio Ambiente
ambiente
ordenamento urbano
despedício (abuso)
pobreza

Can the twin developmental goals of administrative decentralisation and improving services for the urban poor be meshed? How can urban authorities and local politicians learn to listen to service users, particularly women? What services should be run by municipalities and what could be managed by neighbourhood or private management?

Library Resource

Common property: can customary law adapt to the free market?

Janeiro, 2002
Europa
propriedade comum
imóvel
Direito consuetudinário
posse da terra

Transition from subsistence to market economy is not easy. In Papua New Guinea most land is still held under traditional systems of common property resource ownership and a growing cash economy can spark conflict concerning management or ownership issues. Research presented at the annual meeting of the UK Development Studies Association (DSA) examines the institutional limitations, during transition, of traditional ownership systems.

Library Resource

Economic good or natural asset? Sustainable livelihoods approaches to water supply

Janeiro, 2002
Terra, Mudanças Climáticas e Meio Ambiente
ambiente

The domestic water sector has focused for many years on benefiting health by improving supply. Can more and better water improve people’s health? Does improved water supply by government and agencies really meet the basic needs of the poor? Or should water be treated as an economic good?

Library Resource

Providing water to the poor: Assessing private sector participation

Janeiro, 2002
Terra, Mudanças Climáticas e Meio Ambiente
ambiente
pobreza

Can private sector participation (PSP) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services (WSS) meet essential social and environmental needs? New research by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) suggests that inappropriate forms of private sector involvement that are inadequately regulated are unlikely to be of much value to poorer households or the environment.

Library Resource

Fighting disaster: reducing risk in cities

Janeiro, 2002
Índia, Turquia, Sudoeste Asiático, Norte de África, Ásia Meridional
Posse Urbana
ordenamento urbano

How can links between disaster mitigation and urban planning be strengthened? Can urban livelihood strategies reduce poor city dwellers’ vulnerability to disaster? Scant attention is currently paid by relief organisations to urban planning and disaster mitigation, according to a recent Care International report.

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