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Businesses operating in developing countries should use their influence to strengthen national government systems, rather than bypassing them if progress is to be made on global poverty reduction. Businesses should use their influence to strengthen national government systems instead of bypassing them. Businesses and private foundations must be included in global public policy forums. Private foundations should continue investing in innovative projects and should work more closely with civil society. Businesses should learn from aid agencies’ best practice and avoid duplicating existing development projects.

In the context of scaled up funding for climate change adaptation, it is very important to ensure the effectiveness, equity and efficiency of adaptation interventions. Robust monitoring and evaluation is an essential part of this, both to ensure that the prospective benefits of interventions are being realised and to help improve the design of future interventions. This paper is the first empirical assessment of monitoring and evaluation frameworks used by development cooperation agencies for projects and programmes with adaptation-specific or adaptation-related components. It presents analysis on 106 project documents across six bilateral development agencies. Based on this, it identifies the characteristics of monitoring and evaluation frameworks for adaptation and shares lessons learned on the choice and use of indicators for adaptation.

The Report underlines the importance of well-costed projects and the selection of pedagogically sound technologies in order to optimize teaching and learning.This report seeks to explore various issues relating to education in sub-Saharan Africa. Of particular interest is how distance education and open learning can be supported by ICT, such that the objectives of education, as noted in the quotation above, might become achievablefor the majority of people in Africa (many of whom are now excluded from educational opportunities of any form). The report is based on desk research, including a review of literature and examples of current initiatives using ICTs for education in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on open and distance learning

This article examines key issues in operationalising a registry of nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) undertaken by developing countries party to the United Nations framework convention on climate change. It analyses goals, outcomes, and institutional prerequisites underlying various proposals to determine how a NAMA mechanism could work in international climate cooperation. The different proposals for how NAMA shall be designed relate to three basic effort-sharing arrangements in a future climate regime: binding commitments for all Parties, purely voluntary commitments for all, and legally binding commitments for Annex I countries but voluntary ones for others. The article identifies three areas of potential common ground in a registry irrespective of effort-sharing type: the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, the sustainable development objectives of the Convention, and the need for a systemic transition toward low-carbon energy technologies.

The objective of this paper is four-fold: firstly, to provide a common ‘language’ for categorising and discussing health information systems, particularly those in developing countries; secondly, to summarise the potential benefits and opportunities offered by the use of ICT in health; thirdly, to discuss the critical factors resulting in ICT success or failure, with an emphasis on the differences between developed and developing countries; and fourthly, to introduce evaluation frameworks and models used in developed countries to assess the plausibility of ICT projects in health. Overall, this paper aims to illuminate the potential role of information and communication technologies in health, specifically for Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs).

This paper contributes to the growing discourse among decision makers in Bangladesh and the region on the shift from natural, resource-based economies to knowledge-based ones. It concentrates on the main issues relating to women’s access to, use and appropriation of ICT tools in the labor market and in self-employment in Bangladesh and determines what strategic options could be pursued to improving their access – under the broad assumption that lacking access to these technologies is detrimental to women’s participation in the knowledge economy in the long run. The study assumes that the specific societal and cultural roles that Bangladeshi women navigate are common knowledge to the reader – and focuses on the poor, marginalized or under-privileged women in Bangladesh because they are less likely to be able to negotiate their strategic interests and needs in this arena.

In this paper several of the possible impacts of continued, relatively unrestrained greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next half-century are explored. These impacts, though not always highly likely, are plausible. In particular, the focus is on already stressed systems that are vulnerable to being driven over the edge or past a tipping by either a radical or a gradual shifts in climate. In so doing it offers a "system vulnerability approach" to understanding and anticipating climate change disruptions. In conclusion, both the security implications of the climate change impacts discussed in this paper, and the analytic opportunities provided by the systems vulnerability approach are considered.

The purpose of this report is to assess the potential economic impact of climate change on the CARICOM countries. It develops estimates of potential economic impacts due to climate change in the absence of adaptation actions. Areas to be impacted by climate change are listed and their vulnerabilities explained with the emphasis placed on the necessity of adaptation. In concluding, it points to the inevitability of economic loss but stresses the difficulty of having an accurate estimate given the uncertainty of global mitigation efforts.