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Community-Led Rural Road Construction in Nepal

Authors: 
Nawang Gurung
Date: 
October, 2010
Community Governance

Read a 22 page report on rural road construction in Nepal by community-based development expert, Nawang Gurung. Beginning with the background of road development in Nepal, this report details the causes of rural road construction mushrooming, the process of construction, the impacts, advantages, disadvantages, cost effectiveness, and a plan forward for community-led rural road development in Nepal.

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Canoeing Down the Zambezi

Authors: 
Robert L. Fleming Jr.
Publisher: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
May, 2011
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Venture down the Zambezi River in Zambia on a canoe trip with Robert L. Fleming, Jr., a faculty member of the Future Generations Graduate School. Dr. Fleming celebrates the biodiversity of this river system and highlights community based partnerships that link nature conservation with community development.

This 16 page report has 11 full-color photographs of hippos, elephants, and more.

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People's Participation in Conflict Transformation: A Case Study of Jana Andolan II in Nepal

Authors: 
Bandita Sijapati
Authors: 
Social Science Baha
Publisher: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
February, 2011
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A decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal killed more than 10,000 people. In 2006, a Seven Party Alliance (SPA) reached a 12-point understanding with the Maoists toward a common goal of ending the rule of King Gyanendra, reinstating parliament, and opening elections to all parties for a Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution.

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Rhesus Macaque Monkeys in Tibet

Authors: 
Fleming, Robert L. Jr.
Date: 
June, 2006
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On an August 2000 visit to Linzhi Prefecture in SE Tibet, we were surprised to see brownish monkeys at about 3350m/11000’ scrambling over rocky outcrops on the eastern side of the Nyang Chu Valley (also known as the Gyamda Valley) at a point some 40 km west northwest of Bayi. However, the troop, was too far away to allow a satisfactory identification of the species involved. Tibet is not often associated with monkeys. However, five species (possibly six) occur within the Tibet AutonomousRegion (TAR).

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Communities NOT State or NGOs the answer to meaningful development and sustainable peace

Authors: 
Aziz Hakimi
Date: 
March, 2009
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Future Generations Afghanistan Country Director, Aziz Hakimi, writes an occasional paper on the strength of involving communities to determine their own needs and priorities. The paper discusses the use of the SEED-SCALE approach to implement community development.  SEED-SCALE stands for Self-evaluation for effective decision making and systems for communities to adapt, learn, and expand.

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Searchers Who Are Improving Health in the Midst of Poverty

Authors: 
Henry Perry
Date: 
August, 2006
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Why has the $2.3 trillion dollars spent by the West over the past four decades not had more of an impact in promoting health and decreasing poverty?

The economist William Easterly addresses this issue in his provocative new book, The White Man's Burden. His view is that we need to abandon the grandiose plans of the Planners and that we begin to develop new and effective ways for supporting those people he calls Searchers -- those who are working at the grassroots level and who are experimenting and learning by trial and error to solve local problems of poverty and health.

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Peru's Interoceanic Highway

Authors: 
Fleming, Robert L. Jr.
Date: 
March, 2010
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Roads are vital for overall development and the access afforded by these can be both extremely beneficial as well as hugely damaging. The road network in Peru includes the Inter-Oceanic Highway South [Carratera Interoceania Sur], a route linking the Pacific Ocean in Peru with a highway in Brazil that continues east to the Atlantic. This artery, already completed in Brazil but not totally finished in Peru, brings substantial social and environmental change to many areas.

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Toward a Better Future in Afghanistan: An Investigation into the Central Council of Shahidan in Bamyan Province

Authors: 
Kazim Yazdani
Publisher: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
May, 2008
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This case study provides an overview of the history of the village councils, known as shuras, of Shahidan valley in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province with a special focus on the process of training and involving ex-combatants in local governance and community development projects.

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Bishnoi and Antelope in India

Authors: 
Fleming, Robert L. Jr.
Date: 
February, 2010
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On a peaceful February morning, five wild Nilgai, India’s largest antelope, browsed placidly inside the red sandstone fence of the Khejarli (Khejadli) Grove while Large Gray Babblers, their low contact notes holding the flock together, searched for termites in the shade of nearby Prosopis cineraria, khejri trees. And all the while, a caretaker, a man with a white turban and a splendid black moustache, explained the history and significance of this sacred shrine.

 

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A Passion for Pine: Forest Conservation Practices of the Apatani People of Arunachal Pradesh

Authors: 
Rechlin, Michael
Date: 
January, 2010
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This article, published in Himalaya, examines the community forestry and private plantation practices of the Apatani people of Arunachal Pradesh, India. It then highlights conservation solutions unique to the Apatani. Learn about new approaches to forestry and ancient traditions of co-planting bamboo with blue pine.

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