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Human Rights Watch World Report 2012 |
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Human Rights Watch |
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2012
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"This 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
The introductory essay examines the Arab Spring, which has created an extraordinary opportunity for change. The global community has a responsibility to help the longsuppressed people of the region seize control of their destiny from often-brutal authoritarian rulers. Standing firmly with people as they demand their legitimate rights is the best way to stop the bloodshed, while principled insistence on respect for rights is the best way to help these popular movements avoid intolerance, lawlessness, and summary revenge once in power."
, Governance, , International DC-policies, Miscellaneous, , |
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Date of Entry: 2/9/2012 |
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Local Government and Social Protection: Making Service Delivery Available for the Most Vulnerable |
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UNDP, UNCDF |
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2012
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"This discussion paper conceptualizes social protection as part and parcel of overall public service delivery, and examines the role that local governments can play in implementing social protection related policies. It aims to shed light on two important questions that have not been systematically addressed in the existing literature. First, what added value can local government bring to safety
net programmes? Does ‘going local’ improve or strengthen the effectiveness of social safety net initiatives? Secondly, and, inversely, what can safety net programmes bring to local government? Are there advantages for local governments in being more involved in the management and implementation of safety net programmes?"
, Local Governance, , Basic social Protection, Vulnerable Groups, operation of infrastructure, |
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Date of Entry: 2/9/2012 |
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Did Durban deliver? The 2011 climate conference and its implications for land transport |
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Anne Binsted et al. /
Bridging the Gap Initiative |
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2012
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"The paper is the Initiative's analysis of the COP17's outcomes which are of the most relevance to the land transport sector. The report contains a summary of the proceedings from the UNFCCC in Durban and their significance to that sector. The paper also provides recommendations and suggests opportunities for the land transport community."
pdf-file, 609KB, 26pp
, Adaptation to Climate Change, Mitigation of Climate Change, Renewable Resources / Biofuels, International Conventions, Local Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, , , , |
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Date of Entry: 2/7/2012 |
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Report on the SDIP Learning Trip to The Republic of South Africa |
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GIZ, Cities Alliance |
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2012
/ Arab speaking countries, Palestinian Territories, South Africa
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"The introduction and institutionalization of the Strategic Development and Investment Planning Approach (SDIP) in Palestine has been primarily inspired by the South African experience in introducing the Integrated Development Planning (IDP) approach. This has started in June 2008 following to the learning trip that was conducted at that time by the SDIP National Working Group1 (headed by the Ministry of Local Government - MOLG) and with support from the GTZ – LGP to the Republic of South Africa (RSA).
Two years after the introduction of the SDIP process in Palestine and the preparation of more than 66 SDIPs in the respective municipalities, the MOLG has started a process on institutionalizing the SDIP support and monitoring function within its structures. It has also initiated a process aiming to align and coordinate plans and resource allocation among the different governance and sectoral levels in the country and their respective institutions.
Within this context, the MOLG and GIZ-LGP have organized a second learning trip to RSA. The purpose of the trip was to learn about the South African experience in institutionalizing the IDP support and supervision function within the respective governmental structures. It also aimed to learn more about the intergovernmental relations of the South African developmental planning system (including, coordination/alignment mechanisms vertically within governmental structures and horizontally between sectoral structures."
pdf-file, 2.4MB, 27pp
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Date of Entry: 2/7/2012 |
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A Strengthened Partnership for Inclusive Cities. Cities Alliance 2011 Annual Report |
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Cities Alliance |
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2012
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"As a global partnership, the Cities Alliance is particularly well placed to point to the gaps in national
urban policies and in international development assistance. These include the need to focus on cities
as a constituency, the vital importance of a more concerted and differentiated response to the needs
of small and secondary cities—where the bulk of urbanisation will take place—as well as on the enormous,
long-term and largely negative impacts that a badly managed urbanisation process will have
on responding to global priorities, such as climate change. [...]The Cities Alliance 2011 Annual Report defines the new strategic decisions and roadmap adopted by the partnership to revitalise its operations, moving forward, following its adoption of a new Charter at its Consultative Group meeting in Mexico City in November 2010."
pdf-file, 1.9MB, 62pp
local governance, urban management, municipal level, strategic planning, informal settlements, International DC-policies, |
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Date of Entry: 2/7/2012 |
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Health in the green economy: health co-benefits of climate change mitigation – transport sector |
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Jamie Hosking et al. /
WHO |
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2011
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"WHO has undertaken considerable work on “healthy transport” measures such as active
transport (walking and cycling) and better urban planning based upon low-emissions
public transport systems. This document looks at how such healthy strategies can be
implemented through mitigation policies. Mitigation strategies could not only reduce the risks of transport, but also promote health-enhancing environments that, for example,
could facilitate healthy physical activity. Many such strategies can save considerably in
health care costs, particularly in the costs of soaring noncommunicable diseases, including
cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancers and a range of obesity-related diseases.
Healthier lower-carbon transport strategies also are cost-efficient investments for individuals
and societies. The infrastructure costs of better networks for walking and cycling,
or of siting schools nearer to residential areas, are very modest compared with the costs
of developing new vehicle technologies, however vital such technologies still may be. For
households, and particularly the poor, more effective public transport and safer walking/
cycling routes can yield significant savings in travel time and expense as well as preventing
disease and promoting better health."
pdf-file, 4.2MB, 156pp
transportation, mobility, Mitigation of Climate Change, Health Promotion, technical management systems, social management systems, green growth / green economy, green urban economy |
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Date of Entry: 2/2/2012 |
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More than you can handle: decentralization and spending ability of Peruvian municipalities |
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Norman V. Loayza, Jamele Rigolini, Oscar Calvo-González /
World Bank |
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2011
/ South America, Peru
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"In the past three decades, emerging countries have gone through extensive decentralization reforms. Yet, there are no studies assessing quantitatively the relative importance of various factors known to affect the success of decentralization. This paper builds on a comprehensive dataset the authors constructed for Peru, which merges municipal fiscal accounts with information about municipalities' characteristics such as population, poverty, education, and local politics. The paper then analyzes the leading factors affecting the ability of municipalities to execute the allocated budget using complementary methodologies, from least squares to quantile regression analyses."
municipal level, fiscal equalization |
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Date of Entry: 1/31/2012 |
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The Sub Prime Crisis: The Crisis of Over-Spending |
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UN-HABITAT |
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2011
/ North America / Western Europe, Global, USA
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"The subprime crisis refers to the collapse of subprime mortgage markets in the United States due to the sharp rise in foreclosures beginning in 2006, which led to the failure, merger, and government bailout of leading American financial institutions and enterprises. This report examines the causes and impacts of subprime crisis. The report examines the elements causing the crisis, particularly the over-spending behaviors of both governments and individuals and deregulation and lack of monitoring. The over-spending beyond the income/revenue capacity leads to the imbalance between income/revenue and spending and eventually causes the sub-prime crisis and further the global financial and economic crisis. The report then examines the impacts of the crisis."
strategic planning, urban economy, land management, housing development |
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Date of Entry: 1/26/2012 |
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Waiting for a solution (Urban World Volume 4 Issue 4, December 2011) |
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UN-HABITAT |
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2011
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"At international meetings throughout
the year, UN-HABITAT joins its
partners in the global water and sanitation
arena to keep our planet’s most precious
of resources, our water, high on the agenda.
The right to water is a human right. The right to
sanitation is the right to dignity." - Juan Clos, Executive Director UN-HABITAT
technical management systems, operation of infrastructure |
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Date of Entry: 1/26/2012 |
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Cities | PPPs (Handshake Issue #4 January 2012) |
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IFC - World Bank |
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2011
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"There is a near-perfect correlation between urbanization
and prosperity across nations, as pioneering urban economist
Edward Glaeser points out in his myth-busting Triumph of
the City. He reminds us that “the real city is made of flesh,
not concrete,” and that cities succeed or fail due to human
capital, rather than physical capital. However, the right physical
capital—thoughtfully tailored infrastructure—increases the
efficiency of cities, allowing for more and better innovation.
Public-private partnerships (PPPs), at their best, facilitate this
growth on a scale and timeline that would be impossible
without private capital.
This issue of Handshake takes readers on a tour of urban
PPPs that put citizens first. Expert authors introduce readers
to solutions that have revolutionized citydwellers’ experience,
like PPPs for housing, transportation, and water delivery."
Adaptation to Climate Change, Mitigation of Climate Change, Local Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, urban economy, technical management systems, operation of infrastructure, low-cost housing, transport, wataer |
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Date of Entry: 1/26/2012 |
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