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The Governance of Nepal’s Flood Early Warning System: Opportunities Under Federalism Chinaporn Meechaiya, Emily Wilkinson, Emma Lovell, Sarah Brown, Mirianna Budimir : 2019 This working paper looks at the institutional mechanisms for assessing, monitoring, communicating and responding to flood risk information and warnings across three river basins in eastern and western Nepal, and identifies opportunities for enhancing these services under the new federal structure. Decentralising government responsibilities and resources could bring huge benefits, including... Source: Overseas Development Institute Link: https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/12874.pdf Tags: Disaster Management |
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Deliberation: Getting Policy-Making Out From Behind Closed Doors Practice Group on Dialogue and Deliberation, Open Government Partnership : 2019 This briefing book attempts to capture learnings about an emerging method for such citizen engagement: public deliberation. Public deliberation gives citizens a meaningful role, but it asks for something in return: a willingness to listen to different views, weigh competing needs and interests, and carefully craft balanced solutions. It considers how and where deliberation can strengthen... Source: Open Government Partnership Tags: Policymaking |
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Environmental Performance in Asia: Overview, Drivers, and Policy Implications Bihong Huang and Yining Xu : 2019 This paper gives an overview on environmental performance in countries of Asia, understand its drivers and advance preliminary policy recommendations for more effective environmental governance in the region. It advocates for a scientific approach to policy design that improves the quality of environmental governance, in addition to the continuous commitment of resources in countries of Asia. Source: Working Paper 990, Asian Development Bank Institute Link: https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/521606/adbi-wp990.pdf Tags: Environment |
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Jodie Thorpe, John Gaventa and Evert-jan Quak : 2019 The overall aim of this paper is to shed light on what constitutes meaningful participation in areas of economic decision making such as alternative forms of economic management, citizen voice in government economic policy making and grassroots economic alternatives through the social and solidarity economy where people claim ownership over economic processes. It examines how various forms... Source: Institute of Development Studies, Open Society Foundations, UN Inter- Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy Link: http://unsse.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/149_Thorpe_Building-participatory-institutions_En_.pdf Tags: Economy |
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Disaster Riskscape Across Asia-Pacific: Pathways for Resilience, Inclusion and Empowerment UNESCAP : 2019 The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2019 shows how these disasters are closely linked to inequality and poverty, each feeding on the other and leading to a vicious downward cycle. It assesses the scale of losses across the disaster ‘riskscape’ and estimates the amounts that countries would need to invest to outpace the growth of disaster risk. It shows the negative effects of disasters on... Source: UNESCAP Tags: Disaster Management |
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