Climate change can endanger human health and life – either directly through disasters or by damaging the productivity of critical development resources such as crops and livestock, forest, fisheries and water. To avoid this, we have to consider and anticipate climate change risks when deciding, e.g. where and how to build infrastructure, what crops to plant and when to plant them, what species ...

ed from a broader development strategy, such as calls for connectivity in every village by date X, are probably of limited use. 3. ICTs enable change; they do not create it. Pro-poor change in developing countries occurs through some combination of increased resources and capacities of individuals and institutions; greater efficiency and transparency of firms, markets and government institution...

While there has been growing recognition that considering environmental and social aspects of sustainability is important for a firm’s reputation and long-term survival, research so far focused on strategic goals and how sustainability becomes relevant and less so on how sustainability practices become embedded and mainstreamed. Our paper addresses the change process of initiating sustainabilit...

This paper reports on a study undertaken to identify the strategies and models used to facilitate curriculum change within teacher education institutions. Findings indicate three main approaches, which we name the ‘resource development’, ‘action research’ and ‘contextual change’ models. A new model that combines the best features of each is proposed. In this paper we provide a brief overview of...

FOREWORD Innovation is the theme of the 2006 Governing Council, in recognition of the importance of innovation to the successful achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and poverty eradication. With the resources from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), implementation of the IFAD Initiative for Mainstreaming of Innovation started in February 2005. IFAD'...

October 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's message to the US Congress on the need to reform mental healthcare. Much has changed in that time. In 2006, Frank and Glied summarized these changes and the forces behind them, finding that the well-being of people with mental illness was 'better but not well.' They also conclude that most improvements have been due to 'main...

This paper addresses a lacuna in the literature on environmental policy integration by exploring civil society organizations’ (CSOs) experiences of participative environmental mainstreaming – a policy imperative to embed environmental concerns in all aspects of policy-making. A raft of international treaties and laws require this to be operationalized through knowledge exchange and critical eng...

s in Conference Proceedings: See Annex 1 Invited Presentations/ Abstracts/ Publications Gender and nutrition sensitization workshop The workshop (reported earlier) which was attended by 120 stakeholders (farmers, male and female, HEWs, Das, and policy/decision makers) provided a number of lessons learned and recommendations for considering gender more carefully when designing, implementing and ...

— Using critical discourse analysis, this twelve-country study addresses a key lacuna by examining civil society perspectives on the implementation of the Participative Democratic Model (PDM) of gender mainstreaming in post-conflict states. The findings reveal specific data, transitional justice, and governance challenges in war-affected states as policy actors press for heightened attention to...

BACKGROUND In November 2012, the 62nd session of the Regional Committee for Africa adopted a comprehensive 10-year regional strategy for health disaster risk management (DRM). This was intended to operationalize the World Health Organization's core commitments to health DRM and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 in the health sectors of the 47 African member states. This study reported th...