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Blogs

• African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd): Blogs
• Net-Map Blog (IFPRI)
• The blog of the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
• Rights and Resources Initiative Blog

Case studies

African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)

• Local Governance for rural development: A case study from South and East Africa

Assist Social Capital

• Case Studies

Association des Organisations Professionnelles Paysannes du Mali (AOPP)

• La rencontre d’une faîtière naissante avec un programme souple de professionnalisation

Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)

• Shift to (De)Centralisation Creates Contradictions in Policy of Managing Commons: A Case Study from Semi-Arid Tribal Districts of Western India

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• The role of local institutions in reducing vulnerability to recurrent natural disasters and in sustainable livelihoods development: Case study South Africa
• The role of local institutions in reducing vulnerability to recurrent natural disasters and in sustainable livelihoods development in high risk areas Case study: Ilo-Ilo Province, The Philippines
• The role of local institutions in reducing vulnerability to recurrent natural disasters and in sustainable livelihoods development  Case study: Viet Nam

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Net-Map: Case Studies

Livelihoods Connect
Case studies

Ministère des Affaires Etrangères Français
Benin: Organisations paysannes et état: Ensemble pour une politique sectorielle

RuralNet Associates Limited
Local Governance, Participation and Accountability: The Zambia Case Study

United States Agency for International development (USAID)

• El Salvadorian Farmers Become Entrepreneurs
• Strengthening water users associations in Romania

World Bank (WB)

• Rural Institutions and Climate Change: Case Studies
• Workshop: Mobilizing Rural Institutions for Sustainable Livelihood and Equitable Development: Case Studies

Evaluations

Agriterra
PIPGA - Participatory policy-generating research: Evaluation report

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Evaluations

Good practices and lessons learnt

Global Farmer Field School
Good practices

United States Agency for International development (USAID)
Success story: Farmers influence irrigation policy

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Building gender responsive water user associations

Department for International Development (DFID)

• Working with community organizations and civil society from projects to policy intervention: DFID Bolivian experience
• Sustainable livelihoods: Lessons from early experience

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Participation in practice: Lessons from the FAO People's Participation Programme

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Leveraging Rural Institutions for Collective Action to Improve Markets for the Poor: Lessons and Policy Options

Livelihoods Connect
Lessons

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Working with Community Organisations and Civil Society: Experiences from The Gambia

Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC)
Innovative Approaches to Financing Extension: Key lessons from experience

Newsletters

African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)

• Community-Based Worker Newsletter
• Local Economic Development Newsletter
• Sustaining Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa

Assist Social Capital
E-Bulletin

Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP)
InterCambios: Cambios institucionales, crecimiento y pobreza en Bolivia

International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP)
World Farmer

International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI)
Brochure/ Newsletter

Photographs

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
Photos

Global Farmer Field School
Farmer Field Schools in pictures

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Net-Map: Pictures

Via Campesina
Via Campesina at G8

Publications

African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)
Publications

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
Publications

Assist Social Capital
Social Capital Documents

Care International
Community organization:Publications

Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC)
CIPEC Publications

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Documents on rural organizations

• Decentralization and rural food security: some theoretical and empirical relationships
• HIV & rural institutions
• New institutions for agricultural and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Poverty alleviation: the role of rural institutions and participation
• The reconstruction of rural institutions, Part One
• Working with local institutions to support sustainable livelihoods

Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF)
Press Room and Newsletters

GRET – Association de solidarité et de coopération internationale
Institution-Building, Actors, Territories: Publications and online resources

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Ambiguous Institutions: Traditional Governance and Local Democracy in Rural India

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Publications

International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP)
Publications

International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI)
Publications

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

• PLA Notes 27: Participation, Policy and Institutionalisation
• PLA Notes 43: Advocacy and Citizen Participation
• PLA Notes 44: Local Government and Participation
• PLA Notes 46: Participatory processes for policy change
• PLA Notes 49: Decentralisation and community-based planning
• PLA Notes 53: Tools for influencing power and policy
• Gatekeeper Series: Participation
• Gatekeeper Series: People

Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS)
Publications

Natural Resources Institute (NRI)
Selected Publications in Livelihoods and Institutions

Research Centre for International Agrarian & Economic Development, Heidelberg
Studies in Applied Economics and Rural Institutions: Publications

Research Programme Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG)
Publications

Réseau des Organisations Paysannes & de producteurs de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (ROPPA)
Documents

Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)
Publications

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Sida StudiesNo.16 Of Global Concern, Rural Livelihood Dynamics and Natural Resource Governance

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Publications

Via Campesina
Publications

World Bank

• Local Level Institutions: Publications
• Natural Resource Management Institutions: Publications
• Producer Organizations: Publications
• Rural Institutions and Climate Change: Resource Center
• Workshop: Mobilizing Rural Institutions for Sustainable Livelihood and Equitable Development: Background Documents

Reports and working papers

African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)
Making the link between micro and meso: Learning from experience of community based planning in Ghana, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe

Agriterra
The PIPGA Case and Implications for Strengthening Producers' Organizations

Asian Development Bank
CDD Knowledge Products

Centre for Development Research (ZEF)
Social Capital and Community Efficacy: In Poor Localities of Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
Rural Institutions and Producer Organizations in Imperfect Markets: Experiences from Producer Marketing Groups in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya

Department for International Development (DFID)

• Local governance for rural development
• The Role of Rural Producers Organisations (RPOs) in the World Bank Rural Development Strategy

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Local governance for rural development

European Centre for Development Policy management (ECDPM)
Policy Management Brief 12: Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction: Elaborating the Linkages

European Commission

• The role of non-Governmental actors in the new ACP-EU partnership agreement
• Travailler avec la société civile dans le cadre de Cotonou

Food and Agriculture organization (FAO)
Participatory institutional development

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Sustainable rural livelihoods: practical concepts for the 21st century

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Institutions rule: the primary of institutions over integration and geography in economic development

Mountain Forum
Indigenous knowledge, policy and institutional issues for collaboration between mountain adjacent communities and management agencies

Netherlands Organisation for International Development Cooperation(Novib)
Working with community organisations and civil society

Nkum Associates
Local governance for rural poverty reduction

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

• Effective rural institutions: the missing link in market-based agricultural development? – Meeting report
• Institutional Alternatives and Options for Decentralised Natural Resource Management in India
• Sustainable Livelihoods: A Case Study of the Evolution of DFID Policy
• Sustainable Livelihoods Working Paper Series

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Institutions and Poverty Reduction - An introductory exploration

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Sustainable livelihoods and emergencies

WCA InfoNET - Water Conservation and Use in Agriculture
Documents: water User Associations

World Bank

• Agricultural Producer Organizations: Their Contribution to Rural Capacity Building and Poverty Reduction: Summary of workshop organized by WB and IFAP
• Organisations paysannes - Leur contribution au renforcement des capacités  rurales et à la réduction de la pauvreté : Workshop organized by WB and IFAP
• Social Capital Initiative Working Papers
• Stocktaking of selected World Bank projects working with rural institutions for sustainable livelihoods and equitable development
• Strengthening rural local institutional capacities for sustainable livelihoods and equitable development

Toolkits, guides and manuals

Canadian International development Agency (CIDA)
Organization Assessment Guide

CARE

• Household Livelihood Security Assessments - A Toolkit for Practitioners
• Project Design Handbook: Institutional assessment (p46)

Center for International Earth Science information Network (CIESIN) – Columbia University

• The Online Sourcebook on Decentralization and Local Development
  English | Français | Español 

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Towards wellbeing in forest communities: Sourcebook for local government

Department for International Development (DFID)

• Institutional analysis in natural resources research
• Promoting institutional and organizational development

European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)/Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poverty Policy and Institutional Development Division (DSI/AI)
Institutional Development: Learning by Doing and Sharing - Approaches and tools for supporting institutional development

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Participatory negotiated territorial development
• Rapid guide for missions: Analysing local institutions and livelihoods
• Understand, analyze and manage a decentralization process
• Understanding and supporting rural producer organizations
• Venn diagrams; Institutional profiles. In Field Handbook: Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis Programme (SEAGA). Tools A5 and A6 (p64 & 67)

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
A Source Book - Institutional and Organizational Analysis for Pro-Poor Change: Meeting IFAD’s Millennium Challenge

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Net-Map

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Power tools

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
New Training Manuals for Water Users Associations

OXFAM
Producer Organisations: A Guide to Developing Collective Rural Enterprises

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Delivering the Goods - Building Local Government Capacity to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals A Practitioner's Guide from
UNCDF Experience in Least Developed Countries

World Bank

• Institutional Analysis Toolkit for Safety Net Interventions
• The Local Level Institutions Study: Prototype Questionnaires
• Tools for Institutional, Political and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A Sourcebook for Development Practitioners or TIPS
• Tool to measure social capital (p12)

Training
African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)
Training

Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC)
CIPEC Training

International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI)
Training

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Training: Water User Associations

Livelihoods Connect
Training

World Bank
E-Learning Course: Framework and Tools for Institution, Political and Social Analysis (TIPS)

Web resources
Assist Social Capital
Web portal

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Participations website

Global Farmer Field School
Network and Resource Centre

Information Platform for Producer Organisations
Agro-Info.net

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Institutional Analysis

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Livelihoods connect

Le Hub Rural

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