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Assessing Access to Information, Participation, and Justice for the Environment: A Guide

The Access Initiative has developed a set of tools to help civil society groups measure how well governments are performing on access to information, public participation, and justice in decision-making for the environment. These tools are available in the new CD-ROM publication, Assessing Access to Information, Participation, and Justice for the Environment: A Guide. The Guide describes our unique methodology and includes more than 150 research questions designed to measure law and practice in the following areas: * Degree of access to selected types of Information about the Environment; * Degree of Public Participation in decision-making processes; and * Comprehensiveness and quality of Capacity Building efforts to encourage informed and meaningful public participation. In addition, the Guide provides detailed and user-friendly instructions for all phases of the assessment, including assembling a coalition, launching a study, selecting cases and research methods, finalizing data, and using findings to stimulate tangible results.

http://www.accessinitiative.org/how_to_guide.html

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The Access Initiative (TAI)

The Access Initiative (TAI) is a global coalition of public interest groups collaborating to promote national-level implementation of commitments to access to information, participation, and justice in environmental decision-making.

http://www.accessinitiative.org/

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World Social Forum 2006 to be polycentric

The WSF 6th edition will be polycentric, it means that it will be decentralized, being held in different places around the world. So far, three cities will receive the 6th WSF: Bamako (Mali-Africa), Caracas (Venezuela - Americas) and Karachi (Pakistan - Asia). The Bamako event will take place from January 19th to 23rd, 2006. The event in Caracas will take place from January 24th to 29th, 2006. The Karachi event, previously planned to take place from January 24th to 29th, 2006, has been delayed in 2 months.

http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=8&cd_language=2

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Structural Adjustment Participatory Review

SAPRIN is a global network established to expand and legitimize the role of civil society in economic policymaking and to strengthen the organized challenge to structural adjustment programs by citizens around the globe. The network is working with a broad range of citizens' groups in various countries on four continents to organize public processes to assess the real impact of World Bank and IMF-supported economic-reform programs and to chart a new course for the future. SAPRIN and its local affiliates have engaged the World Bank and governments in eight countries -- Bangladesh, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Hungary, Mali, Uganda and Zimbabwe -- as part of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI). In Mexico and the Philippines, as well as in Canada, citizens' groups organized under SAPRIN are collaborating with parliamentarians and other institutions as part of the Citizens' Assessment of Structural Adjustment (CASA). In Argentina and the Central America region, SAPRIN is working with broad citizens' alliances to build alternatives to current economic policies.

http://www.saprin.org

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We the People 2005 - Mobilizing for Change: Messages from Civil Society

For the last four years, The North-South Institute (NSI) and the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) have conducted annual global online surveys of civil society engagement with the implementation of the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2005, civil society organizations around the world are reviewing the lessons learned and, the progress made, over the past five years. Through our most recent global survey, more than 400 groups provided a wealth of information about their work on the MDGs and their assessment of progress on Declaration objectives.

http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/publications/default.asp#wtp2005

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Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in the Millenium Development Goals

CIVICUS has produced a Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in the Millenium Development Goals. The manual aims to build upon material that already exists from other sources. It provides a framework and a starting point for those interested in linking their efforts with the MDG Campaign at all levels.

http://www.civicus.org/mdg/title.htm

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Halifax Initiative

Halifax Initiative is a coalition of development, environment, labour, human rights and faith groups deeply concerned about the international financial system and its institutions. The Halifax Initiative was formed in the context of an international movement of non-governmental organizations focused on evaluating the role and record of the Bretton Woods Institutions at the time of their 50th Anniversary. Canadian NGOs formed the Halifax Initiative in December 1994 to ensure that demands for fundamental reform of the international financial institutions were high on the agenda of the G7's 1995 Halifax Summit. The Halifax Initiative has established itself as the Canadian presence for public interest advocacy and education on international financial institutional reform.

http://www.halifaxinitiative.org/

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La Via Campesina

La Via Campesina is the global alliance of rural movements, small- and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It has emerged as a major actor in the current struggle against neo-liberalism. The website is an excellent source of the moevement's campaigns, actions and events, declarations and interviews with its leaders.

http://www.viacampesina.org/

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NGOs comment on UN Secretary General Report : "In Larger Freedom"

UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. This webpage has an extensive list of accessible responses made by NGOs to the UN Secretary General report: "In Larger Freedom: towards freedom, security and human rights for all".

http://www.un-ngls.org/sg-report-NGOs-comment.htm

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International NGO Training and Research Centre INTRAC

INTRAC is a non-profit organisation working in the international development and relief sector. We support non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) around the world by helping to explore policy issues, and by strengthening management and organisational effectiveness.

http://www.intrac.org/

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The NGO Café

Realizing the growing importance and voice of NGOs in development in general, the NGO Café was set up on the internet as a meeting place for NGOs to discuss, debate and disseminate information on their work, strategies and results. The basic objectives of the Café are to assist NGOs in enhancing and improving their programmes and activities; to effect a better understanding of NGOs in general; and to enable NGOs to network at local, regional and international levels.

http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/index.html

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Civil Society Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals [Doc 741KB]

This compilation, which features the viewpoints from several members of the UNDP CSO Advisory Committee, focuses on issues of gender, trade, environment and indigenous peoples.

http://www.un-ngls.org/CSO%20perspectives%20on%20the%20MDGs%20FINAL.doc

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Non-Profit Guides

Non-profit guides are free web-based grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups.

http://www.npguides.org/

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OECD Forum 2005

2-3 May 2005, Centre de Conférences Internationales, 19 Avenue Kléber, 75016 Paris, France. The OECD Forum is a "multi-stakeholder summit" which brings together business and labour leaders, civil society personalities, government ministers and leaders of international organisations to discuss the key issues of the 21st century. What is unique about the OECD Forum is that it enables participants to shape the outcome of the annual OECD ministerial summit which will be held on 3-4 May 2005.

http://www.oecd.org/site/0,2865,en_21571361_34225293_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

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Zimbabwe: NGO Act is an outrageous attack on human rights

AI, 10 December 2004. Amnesty International is outraged at the enactment, yesterday, of a new law, which bans foreign human rights organizations from working in Zimbabwe and could be used to close down local human rights groups. "The law is a direct attack on human rights in Zimbabwe and should be immediately repealed," urged Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty International's Africa Program.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engafr460392004

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IRN Response to Sebastian Mallaby's Attacks on NGOs

Sebastian Mallaby, a Washington Post journalist, has published a book and several articles attacking IRN and other NGOs critical of the World Bank's record in funding infrastructure projects. Mallaby seems to have done little if any detailed analysis of the projects he describes and his assertions are riddled with errors and mischaracterizations.

http://www.irn.org/programs/finance/sebastianmallaby/index.html

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NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor

September/October 2004. Sebastian Mallaby criticises NGO operations in an article published in Foreign Policy.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2672.php

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Moral and Practical Challenges to NGO Neutrality

Ontrac No. 28 September 2004. Barbara Brubacher explores the increasing pressure on the concept of NGO neutrality in humanitarian contexts; Jo Boyden highlights the complexity of humanitarian interventions in Sri Lanka and Brian Pratt reflects on what has changed in Ethiopia twenty years after the famine of the early 1980s.

http://www.intrac.org/resources_database.php?id=17

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Civil Society Watch

The CIVICUS Programme, Civil Society Watch (CSW), aims to mobilise quick, principled and effective responses to those events that threaten civil society's fundamental rights to collectively express, associate and organise throughout the world. CSW builds on CIVICUS' long-standing role as a global voice in defence of civic rights. It also contributes to CIVICUS' mission to strengthen civil society worldwide and protect space for civic expression, particularly in those areas where it is under threat.

http://www.civilsocietywatch.org/

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Humanitarian Action and the Global War on Terror: A Review of Trends and Issues

(Gloabl Development Network) By Macrae, J. (ed.); Harmer, A. (ed.) Produced by: Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), ODI, 2003. This report reviews key trends in humanitarian policy, focusing on the implications for humanitarian action of the global 'war on terrorism'. In addition to potential or actual conflicts, the war on terrorism constitutes a framework within which international and national policy, including humanitarian aid policy, is defined and implemented. The paper argues that humanitarian organisations face difficulties positioning themselves within the new geopolitical framework, particularly in identifying the humanitarian agenda and positioning it as a distinct sphere of international behaviour.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LGEL-5Q7D55/$FILE/hpg-terrorism-jul03.pdf?OpenElement

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Zimbabwe: Govt defends controversial NGO bill

23 Aug 2004 (IRIN). The Zimbabwean government this week defended a proposed ban on foreign human rights groups and restrictions on local rights organisations, describing them as a "threat to national security". In a statement issued by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, placed in all the Sunday newspapers, the government also accused donors of employing "local puppets to champion foreign values".

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=42806

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HIV/AIDS and humanitarian action (pdf 563 KB

HPG Report 16, April 2004. By Paul Harvey. This report examines the role of humanitarian relief in the context of the AIDS epidemic.

http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/hpgreport16.pdf

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Rethinking Participation

An ActionAid USA/ActionAid Uganda Discussion Paper; April 2004. (pdf) This ActionAid USA/ActionAid Uganda Discussion Paper is designed to elicit debate and discussion among ActionAid country programs and other civil society organizations (CSOs) which participate in public consultations for Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). While acknowledging the benefits of CSO engagement in public PRSP consultations, the paper raises important questions for CSOs about the limitations and constraints of the consultations that have been documented over the previous four years of experience. Based on this historical record, the paper suggests that CSOs consider the benefits of also participating in alternative public forums as supplementary or complimentary methods of civic mobilization around questions of development policy.

http://www.actionaidusa.org/pdf/rethinking_participation_april04.pdf#search=%22Rethinking%20Participation%20action%20aid%22

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The International Budget Project

The International Budget Project of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities assists non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and researchers in their efforts both to analyze budget policies and to improve budget processes and institutions. The project is especially interested in assisting with applied research that is of use in ongoing policy debates and with research on the effects of budget policies on the poor. The overarching goal of the project is to make budget systems more responsive to the needs of society and, accordingly, to make these systems more transparent and accountable to the public. The project works primarily with researchers and NGOs in developing countries or new democracies.

http://www.internationalbudget.org/

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Between Grassroots and Governments - Civil Society Experiences with the PRSPs: A Study of Local Civil Society Response to the PRSPs (pdf)

By Susanne Possing, Programme Researcher. DIIS Working Paper 2003:20, September 2003. The report focuses on civil society experience with locally identified priorities for poverty eradication, an area little examined and less discussed in the international debate on PRSP to date. In the three N/S PRSP Programme countries, Honduras, Nicaragua and Zambia, civil society organisations have been involved in efforts to identify national as well as local priorities for poverty eradication. Taking the point of departure in involvement of CS with PRSP planning and monitoring at both levels, the paper presents a range of challenges and dilemmas for civil society in its efforts to combat poverty. Special attention is given to civil society initiatives and response to PRSP in provinces, districts and communities.

http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/WP2003/sup_grassroots.pdf

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