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Workshop on a Collaborative Platform for Agricultural Research in Sub-Saharan Africa, WARDA, Bouaké, 14 to 16 March 2001, Workshop Report by International Service for National Agricultural Research, West Africa Rice Development Association

“…Others are the establishment of steering committees to monitor progress of the implementation of partnership programs, expected output, impact, and dissemination of information on programs of collaborative platforms…”
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Bridging gender gaps in political participation: Experimental evidence on group-based trainings from Nigeria by Adida, Claire, Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, Arriola, Leonardo, Matanock, Aila, Adeyanju, Dolapo, Fisher, Rachel

“…In a randomized controlled trial across 300 communities in rural southwest Nigeria, we recruited 3,900 politically unaffiliated women into newly formed women’s action committees (WACs). Control WACs received a single civic education training, while treatment WACs received five additional trainings aimed at strengthening women’s collective efficacy over the course of six months. …”
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Sustainable financial solutions for the adoption of solar powered irrigation pumps in Nepal’s terai by Mukherji, Aditi, Chowdhury, Devjit Roy, Fishman, Ram, Lamichhane, Nabina, Khadgi, Vijay, Bajracharya, Sugat

“…Village Development Committees (VDCs) were randomly divided into three groups and one financial option was provided to each group of VDCs. …”
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Mujeres en los congresos argentinos de la Ciencia del Suelo by Sainz, Daiana Soledad, Rey, Rocio Belen, Carfagno, Patricia

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Institutional mapping of adaptation options in Malwathu Oya, Yan Oya and Mi Oya river basins in Sri Lanka by Imbulana, Upali, Amarasinghe, Upali A., Ukwattage, Sachini, Amarnath, Giriraj, Chandrasekara, Sewwandhi, Sivananthan, Piriyanka, Seelanatha, Kaushika

“…Forming Cascade management committees and strengthening farmer organizations, 2). …”
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Experimental evidence on post-program effects and spillovers from an agriculture-nutrition program by Dillon, Andrew, Bliznashka, Lilia, Olney, Deanna K.

“…Two treatment interventions implemented agricultural interventions with behavior change communication strategies varying implementers using either village health committees or older female leaders. In the post-program period, program effects deteriorated relative to program period impacts documented in Olney et al. (2015), but the three-year agricultural, nutrition knowledge, health care practices and severe anemia impacts remained statistically significant. …”
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Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia by Baldivieso, Carla, De Silva, Sanjiv, Gleich, Pia, Soeun, Kimourn, Neth, Sreypov, Ou, Phichong, Sun, Vathanak, Sean, Vichet, Oem, Sothanh, Koy, Chandy, Ostrower, Lara, Freed, Sarah, Mak, Sithirith, Dubois, Mark, Sieber, Stefan, Bonatti, Michelle

“…While the ecological and production benefits of CFRs are well documented, the challenge is how communities and CFR Committees can adapt, through collective learning, to collectively managing this shared asset in the long term. …”
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Making the law of the jungle: the reform of forest legislation in Bolivia, Cameroon, and Indonesia by Silva, E., Kaimowitz, D., Bojanic, A., Ekoko, F., Manurung, T., Pavez, I.

“…Moreover, in democratic developing countries organizations that focus almost exclusively on cultivating their relationship with state ministries to influence forest policy reform usually see their efforts flounder because the legislature, especially legislative committees, is a more significant policy making arena than had been considered here before.…”
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Improving forest benefits for the poor: learning from community-based forest enterprises in Nepal by Pandit, B.H., Albano, A., Kumar, C.

“…NTFP collection and factory labour), and representation of the poorest and marginalized in FUG executive committees. Recommendations include replicating the good practices of the CBFEs while improving on their weaknesses such as federating and formalizing FUGs into networks, cooperatives, or private companies; adding value to variation forest products; increasing equity in distribution of benefits; promoting resource sustainability; and the capacity building of the various stakeholders.…”
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Gender, institutions and sustainability in the context of forest decentralisation reforms in Latin America and East Africa by Yan Sun, Mwangi, E., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Women’s participation in decision making at the user-group level and in forest committees has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on forest sustainability. …”
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Virus entomopatógenos en el control biológico de insectos by Villamizar Rivero, Laura Fernanda, Cuartas Otalora, Paola Emilia, Gómez Valderrama, Juliana Andrea, Barrera Cubillos, Gloria Patricia, Espinel Correal, Carlos, López Ferber, Miguel

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Getting it right, a guide to improve inclusion in multistakeholder forums by Evans, K., Monterroso, I., Ombogoh, D.B., Liswanti, N., Tamara, A., Mariño, H., Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Larson, A.M.

“…In particular, we analyzed how these actors participate and/or are represented in spaces such as forest user group committees, co-management groups or forest commodity roundtable meetings. …”
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Strengthening the climate services chain in Central America by Martínez Barón, Deissy, Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo, Martínez, Jesús David, González Romero, Carmen, Muñoz, Angel G, Castellanos, Andrea, Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina, Prager, Steven D, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando

“…Next Generation of climate forecasts -NextGen, the Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees - LTAC, the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture -PICSA). …”
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Getting it right, a guide to improve inclusion in multistakeholder forums by Evans, Kristen, Monterroso, Iliana, Ombogoh, Douglas B., Liswanti, Nining, Tamara, Ade

“…In particular, we analyzed how these actors participate and/or are represented in spaces such as forest user group committees, co-management groups or forest commodity roundtable meetings. …”
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Combined impacts of transformative adaptation and multiscale polycentric governance for enhancing climate resilience: a case study from Sri Lanka by Amarasinghe, Upali A., Amarnath, Giriraj, Ukwattage, Sachini, Seelanatha, Kaushika, Sivananthan, Priyanka, Imbulana, U., Alahacoon, Niranga, Chandrasekara, S.

“…​​​​This study focused on assessing the ex-ante combined impacts of multiscale governance and three key transformative adaptation options (TAOs): river basin​​​ planning with a climate change focus, forming cascade management committees (CMCs) with tank rehabilitation, and diversifying to high-value crops with climate-smart practices, aiming to enhance climate resilience. …”
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Anticipatory action simulation on flood hazard: case study of Matara District, Sri Lanka by Alahacoon, Niranga, Amarasinghe, H., Indrasena, R., Gunasundara, W., Kaushalya, C., Nethmi, K., De Silva, R., Amarnath, Giriraj

“…The exercise aimed to enhance community preparedness by testing the early warning dissemination process, validating early action protocols, and assessing the capacity of Village Disaster Management Committees (VDMCs). Led by the District Disaster Management Coordination Unit under the guidance of the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) and supported by Save the Children International (SCI), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and the Sahana Social Development Alliance (SSDA), the simulation followed the structured Preparedness, Readiness, and Active phases of Anticipatory Action. …”
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By whose rules, for whose needs? The power of elites, livelihood implications and potential for resistance in two Nepalese community forest user groups by Harrer, Constantin

“…This article bridges and exemplifies these discourses by exploring power relationships between forest users, executive committees and forest officials as associated with livelihood impacts and resistance. …”
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Análisis de algunos componentes de la gestión del recurso hídrico en la subcuenca del río Gatuncillo, cuenca del Canal de Panamá by Segura Ramos, D.A.

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A fishery at risk and the limits to adaptation : a study of Cambodian Community Fishery organisations’ role in reducing livelihood vulnerability to climate change in their communit... by Wessling, Hanna

“…Through field visits and semi-structured interviews with Community Fishery committees and members from five Cambodian Community Fisheries in three different provinces, this thesis seeks to understand how the work of Community Fishery organisations can contribute to reduce livelihood vulnerability and strengthen the local communities’ capacity to adapt to climate-related impacts. …”

IPGRI in Central & West Asia and North Africa: Regional report 1999-2000 by International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…Other milestones of IPGRI's work in this region include: the establishment of new national plant genetic resources (PGR) programmes and committees and new ex situ and in situ facilities; the provision of electronic-networking capacities in CWANA; the enhancement of the conservation and use of priority species such as pomegranate, olives, pistachio and almond; the introduction of an innovative and user-friendly information system for plant genetic resources; and the launch of major regional projects such as the recently initiated UNDP-GEF (United Nations Development Programme Global Environment Fund) project on date palm in the oases of the Maghreb. …”
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