NEW SOURCES ON DEVELOPMENT OR ENVIRONMENT
    Materials added to the ELDIS gateway to information sources
                     October/November 1998

Two new research guides: overview guides to online documents,
organisations and printed materials

      * HEALTH SECTOR REFORMS: the impact of World Bank
      influenced policies on privatisation, user charging and
      decentralisation
 
      * GENDER AND HEALTH: the debate shifts from "women's
      health" to a recognition of gender differentiation in health care and
      gender inequality


Below is short selection from the items added to our directory in
October/November. The documents are all available in full and free of
charge on the WWW sites of the publishing organisations. Full internet
addresses for these are given on the Eldis What's New page at: 

                http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.html

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Materials related to the Buenos Aires meeting on the Framework Convention
on Climate Change 
      * The meeting: official WWW site and IISD reporting 
      * The scientific argument on global warming: 
      * Pro: Climate Change and its impacts (Hadley Centre for Climate
      Prediction and Research / 1998) Amazon forests will die back by
      2050, and grasslands become deserts 
      * Anti: Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon
      Dioxide (Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine / 1998) No
      evidence for existence of global warming 
      * Briefings on the mechanisms for implementing the Kyoto
      protocols (Weathervane; RFF / 1998) 

PARTICIPATION: 
      * Participatory Poverty Assessments and Public Services: Key
      Messages From the Poor (DFID; Brocklesby, M.A.; Holland, J./
      1998)
      * Empowering People: A Guide to Participation (UNDP / 1998) 
      * Social Policy Assessment Research: The Establishment, The
      Underground: A State-of-the-Art Report (Boothroyd, P., IDRC /
      1998)
 
GENDER: 
      * Toolkit on Gender in Water and Sanitation (World Bank, 1998) 
      * Gender and Social Security Reform in Africa (Kasente, D.,
      IDRC / 1998)
 
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION POLICY: 
      * Assessing Aid-What Works, What Doesn't, and Why (World
      Bank / 1998)
      * Social Development Policies, Results and Learning: Experiences
      from European Agencies (Thin, N.; DFID / 1998 
      * Social issues in sector wide approaches [to development
      cooperation] (Norton, A.; Bird, B.; DFID / 1998)
      * Social Development Policies, Results and Learning: a
      Multi-agency Review (DFID; Thin, N.; Good, T.; Hodgson, R./
      1997)
      * Impact Assessment in Multilateral Development Institutions
      (DFID; Donecker, J.; Green, M. / 1998)

DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION / ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: 
      * Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
      (GLOBE Programme)
      * International Education and Resource Network (I*Earn)
      * Windows on the World: School Linking and the Internet 
      * Cool Planet, Oxfam 

OTHER: 
      * Forests in Sustainable Development: guidelines for forest sector
      development cooperation (European Union DG8 /1998)
      * UNDP Poverty report 1998 (UNDP / 1998)
      * From Lome to the GSP: Implications for the ACP of Losing
      Lome Trade Preferences (Kennan, J.; Stevens, C. ; IDS; Oxfam
      / 1997)
 

A SELECTION OF ORGANISATIONS: 
      * Poverty Reduction Project, GTZ 

      * NepalNet WWW site for Nepali NGOs

      * Natural Resources Information System (Narsis), DFID database
      of DFID environment sector projects and their progress/outcomes
 
      * Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development
      (ECD Group) how and why to invest
 
      * Social Crisis in East Asia, World Bank social impact of the Asian
      financial crisis
 
      * AlertNet, the Reuter Foundation news stories on
      disaster/emergency relief situations, including the Central American
      floods
 
      * Information Network on Post-harvest Operations (INPHO), FAO
 
      * Australian Mekong Research Network (AMRN) / Australian 
      Mekong Resource Centre (AMRC) network and online resource
      directory 

Full internet addresses for all these items are given on the Eldis What's New
page at:               
                 http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.html


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