Author: Rob Glastra
Publisher: IDRC
Keywords: tropics, trade, timber, logging, illegal
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0889368627
ISBN-13: 9780889368620

Authors:Chris M. Cook, Micheline Beaudry-Somcynsky,
Publisher: IDRC
Keywords: profiles, partnership, idrc, assistance, development, system, official, japan
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-11
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 088936883X
ISBN-13: 9780889368835

Author: Olanrewaju B. Smith
Publisher: IDRC
Keywords: urban, security, sanitation, food, africa, agriculture, west, contributing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0889368902
ISBN-13: 9780889368903

The urban agriculture sector in West and Central Africa is growing rapidly, despite an unfavorable political and policy environment. This book describes the valuable contribution that urban agriculture is making to food security and urban sanitation in the cities of the region. It also presents a strategy for launching a multi-stakeholder network on urban agriculture, and does so with input and support from producers; NGOs; national, regional, and international research institutions; donors; and policymakers and government officials at both the municipal and national levels. This book includes

Authors:D. Morales-Gómez, Necla Tschirgi, Jennifer Moher,
Publisher: IDRC
Keywords: sustainable, human, development, perspectives, changing, social, policy, reforming
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2000-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0889368783
ISBN-13: 9780889368781

Authors:Sarah Earl, Fred Carden, Terry Smutylo,
Publisher: IDRC Books
Keywords: development, programs, reflection, learning, mapping, building, outcome
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2002-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0889369593
ISBN-13: 9780889369597

"Outcome Mapping provides not only a guide to essential evaluation map-making, but also a guide to learning and increased effectiveness, and affirmation that being attentive along the journey is as important as, and critical to, arriving at a destination." - Michael Quinn PattonMore and more, development organizations are under pressure to demonstrate that their programs result in significant and lasting changes in the well-being of their intended beneficiaries. However, such "impacts" are often the product of a confluence of events for which no single agency or group of agencies can realistic

Author: Louise Grenier
Publisher: IDRC Book
Keywords: researchers, guide, knowledge, indigenous, working
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0889368473
ISBN-13: 9780889368477

This guided book zeros in on what indigenous knowledge can contribute to a sustainable development strategy -- one that accounts for the potential of the local environment and the experience and wisdom of the indigenous population. It will help to improve the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of any program of research and will appeal to both the seasoned development professional and the novice or student just beginning a research career.

Authors:Abhinandan K. Jain, Ashok Jambhekar, T.P. Rama Rao
Publisher: IDRC Book
Keywords: information, librarians, professionals, primer, services, products, marketing
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0889368171
ISBN-13: 9780889368170

Contributed articles presented at a workshop held in 1994.