| Publications available at CONGOMA
Secretariat |
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| 1. New Partnership
for African Development |
| The New Partnership for African
Development (NEPAD) is a pledge by African leaders to eradicate
poverty and to place their countries on a path of sustainable
growth and development. NEPAD aims to establish a "new"
framework of interaction with the rest of the world, including
the industrialized countries and multilateral organizations
to lift African GDP growth. The NEPAD document (in English,
Arabic, French and Portuguese), and information about the initiative
can be retrieved at: http://www.africanrecovery.org/home.asp |
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| 2. Malawi NGOReport
on the Rights of the Child submitted to the United
Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child |
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| 3. Malawi Poverty
Reduction Strategy Paper, April 2002. |
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| 4. The NGO Handbook
on Proposal Writing produced by the British Council
in association with CONGOMA, 1997 |
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| 5. NGO Act, 2000 |
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| 6. NGO code of Conduct |
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| 7. Malawi Land Policy
Document |
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| Publications by the Commonwealth Foundation |
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| 8. Non-Governmental
Organisations: Guidelines for Good Policy and Practice
describes what NGOs are and do in today's world, and sets out
guidelines on policies and practices which will increase and
improve their impact. |
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| 9. Citizens and Governance:
Regional Perspectives brings together views and experiences
of ordinary citizens in 47 countries of the Commonwealth on
what kind of society they want future generations to live. |
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| 10. Citizens and Governance
Programme: Issues for Debate Volume 1.is a series of
occasional papers that critique the concepts of "Governance",
"Civil Society" and "Citizen Education" |
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| 11. Citizens and Governance:
Outcomes of Durban is a communiqué and action
plan issued by 220 participants from 53 countries who attended
the Third Commonwealth NGO Forum held in Durban from 6 to 8
November 1999. |
| Our members enjoy publicity
of their work through the newsletters, cards, flyers, NGO Week,
calendars and the NGO Directory. |
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| 12. Citizens and Governance:
Civil Society in the New Millennium is an initiative
towards humanising the process of governance by brining to the
fore the voices of citizens across the commonwealth. |
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| The following documents may be sourced
through the addresses provided: |
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| Africa's Policy Challenges
in 2002 (Progressive Response) |
| Jointly Foreign Policy In
Focus and Africa Action have produced a policy report surveying
the policy challenges in Africa this coming year. The report
was written by William Minter and Salih Booker, the Executive
Director of Africa Action. An excerpt of the report can be found
at the FPIF website: www.fpif.org/progresp/volume6/v6n06.html.
Or the entire report can be found at: http://www.fpif.org/papers/africa2002.html |
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| "Human Rights
and Poverty Eradication: A Talisman for the Commonwealth" |
| The report focuses on unacceptable
levels of poverty in the Commonwealth. It demands that Commonwealth
states unequivocally recognize that the persistence of poverty
is a serious human rights violation and one that requires a
genuine rights-based approach as the only effective and immediate
solution. The report is available online at www.humanrightsinitiative.org
or hard copies may be obtained for $US 15.00 from the CHRI office
at: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, F-1/12A Hauz Khas
Enclave, New Delhi 110 016, INDIA |
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| Governance and Food
Security in an Age of Globalisation (IFPRI) by Robert Paarlberg |
| Whose responsibility is it
to assure food security in an age of globalisation? Is improved
governance at the international level our greatest need, or
are governance deficits most severe at the national level? This
paper discusses these and other pressing issues. An overview
of the paper is available in a two-page brief at www.ifpri.org/pubs/catalog.htm#briefs
or the full paper can be found at www.ifpri.org/pubs/catalog.htm#dp |
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