Special Initiatives
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2006-2007 Reports and Publications UNDP Regional Centres in Bangkok and Colombo Annual Report 20062006 Annual Report represents the first joint review of the work of the UNDP Regional Centres in Bangkok and Colombo.
Gender and ICT e-PrimerApril 2007 This e-Primer looks at information and communications technology (ICT) for development through a gender lens. It provides a gender perspectives to issues of ICT policies; access and control; education, training and skill development; and content development, and introduces a framework to integrate gender in ICT for development and empower women.
Empowering the Poor: Information and Communications Technology for Governance and Poverty Reduction - A Study of Rural Development Projects in IndiaDecember 2006 This publication systematically analyzes 18 projects in India that uses information and communications technology (ICT) for the benefit of poor people, and provides recommendations on how ICT can be applied to the massive, widespread and seemingly intractable problems of poverty. The publication also ranks the projects by their relevance, service delivery, community participation and empowerment, equality in decision-making and benefits, sustainability, replicability and their prospects for being scaled-up.
Breaking Barriers: The Potential of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Human Development - A Compilation of Case Studies from Across the WorldNovember 2006 This publication includes a compilation of 14 case studies on the successful deployment of free and open source software (FOSS) in select projects from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America. In each case study, the reason for choosing to use FOSS together with the development, implementation and impact of the FOSS applications are discussed. The benefits obtained and challenges encountered, as well as any valuable lessons learned are also highlighted.
Gender in the Information Society: Emerging issuesNovember 2006 This publication is a collection of 13 papers developed for a pre-World Summit on the Information Society seminar, developed in partnership with UNIFEM and IT for Change. It showcases perspectives that critique the engagement with new technologies in various development sectors such as the media, work and economy and governance. An edited video of the seminar was also produced.
Will tomorrow be brighter than today? Addressing gender concerns in energy for poverty reduction in the Asia-Pacific regionDecember 2006 This publication provides recommendations on mainstreaming gender in the provisioning of energy services in order to achieve the MDSs to reduce poverty and empower women
Natural Resource Management: Policy and PracticeMarch 2006 A series of analytical studies on natural resource management identifies the opportunities and challenges in narrowing the gap between policies and actual practice
Indigenous Peoples and the Human Rights Based Approach to Development: Engaging in DialogueFebruary 2006 This report provides an overview of the policies of major development institutions with reference to indigenous peoples. It describes the policy processes and their impact on programming at the local level.
Indigenous Women and Decision-Making: A Community Training ManualFebruary 2006 This training manual has been developed to address the power relationships that influence the daily lives of indigenous women at a community level.
Delivering the Goods - Building Local Government Capacity to Achieve the Millennium Development GoalsJanuary 2006 This Practitioner's Guide has captured and codify variuos sorts of lessons which are emerging from the growing portfolio of Local Development Programmes, as well as highlighted the urgent need for scaleable models to ensure that basic infrastructure and service delivery is expanded sufficiently to meet the 2015 targets.
Institutional Arrangements to Combat Corruption: A Comparative StudyDecember 2005 - Updated January 2006 UNCAC requires that States designate a body or bodies to coordinate anti-corruption prevention and enforcement measures. This comparative study of institutional arrangements to combat corruption, which covers 14 countries, is aimed at providing an overview of the various options available is this regard, as well as discussing the advantages and disadvantages of these. Thus the study offers a menu of options and solutions for countries in the region and beyond to be adopted to the local political, social and economic situation.
Local Governance in Tsunami Recovery: Lessons Learned and Emerging PrinciplesJanuary 2006 This paper presents the findings of an initiative by a group of UNDP practitioners in Asia working in the interface between Decentralization and Local Governance and Crisis Prevention and Recovery to analyse the lessons learned on local governance in Tsunami recovery. The purpose is to provide an analysis of lessons learned and emerging principles on the functioning of local governance in disaster recovery (and briefly relief and early recovery) – drawing primarily on experiences from the five countries most seriously affected by the Tsunami: India, Indonesia, Maldives, Thailand and Sri Lanka but also experiences from previous disasters.
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