ANGOC organized a roundtable discussion on the theme “NGO/CSO Experiences in PRSP Monitoring and Advocacy,” in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 23-25 May 2006. This discussion was organized to provide a learning forum for NGOs to: -Provide updates on country experiences on the PRSP processes, including NGOs’ participation in PRSP formulation and implementation; -Share approaches and [...]
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This publication represents a record of the past three and a half years of striving to come to terms with the issues and challenges involved in building self-sustaining organizations of the poor. It is also our contribution to the effort–perhaps still nascent and little appreciated-to improve development support by focusing on the people and the [...]
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IFAD is collaborating with the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) and the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) in contributing towards enabling the rural poor to form strong and sustainable coalitions and federations. This publication is the second output of this collaboration. It documents the [...]
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One major component of SCOPE is the review of IFAD project experiences in Asia in building organizations and coalitions of the rural poor over the past 10 years. The review involves an examination of the project formulation process and institution-building components of IFAD’s projects in Asia and the Pacific, looking particularly at experiences in building [...]
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This publication is a review of a two year project commissioned by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and undertaken by the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) and the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) to evaluate the participatory approaches and tools that had [...]
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LOKNITI – “Lok Niti” and “Raj Niti” are terms coined from the Sanskrit by Mahatma Gandhi. Lok Niti signifies people’s politics, the people in command and direct governance by the sovereign people, as opposed to Raj Niti, the politics of the nation state or indirect rule by a centralized government leadership based on current “democratic” [...]
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The Third Country Training Program (TCTP) on Building Capacities of Asian NGOs in Poverty Reduction through Community Actions focusing on Promoting Participatory Local Governance for Rural Development was conducted from August 27 to September 15, 2006 at the Innotech Centre, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines. Twenty-five participants from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, [...]
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