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Cutting Budgets, Slashing Forests? Monitoring France’s Fast Start Finance for REDD+

Célia Gautier et Anne Chetaille | Gret | 2012/03

In this report, GRET presents the results of a study monitoring France’s pledges for Fast Start Finance (FSF) for REDD+. After going over these pledges in more detail, it gives a quantitative and qualitative report of the actions counted by France as REDD+ finance in
From the ”post-2012” regime to the ”post-2020” climate regime: a long and winding road

Coordination : Célia Gautier (Gret), rédaction : Sébastien Blavier (RAC-F), Patrice Burger (Cari), Marie Chéron (4D), Célia Gautier (Gret), Adeline Giraud (AVSF), Alix Mazounie (RAC-F), avec les contributions de : Anne Chetaille (Gret), Olivier Lefebvre (Initiative Développement) | Coordination Sud | 2012 | Etudes et analyses

Review of the 17th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 28th November-11th December 2011, Durban, South Africa.
Innovations in services for irrigation users – A comparative analysis of three institutional innovation processes in Cambodia, Haïti and Mali

Elaboré par le Groupe Initiatives (AVSF, Cedac, Crose, Cudes, Faranfasi so, Fonhadi, ISC, Gret, Iram) | Gret | 12/2012 | Traverses | 39

Ensuring that irrigation schemes are sustainable when management is transferred to farmers remains a considerable challenge for food security and economic development. Between the dismantling of public advisory services and unsustainable projects still too often limited to providing rapid training courses, irrigation users are quite
Intra-Regional Trade Limitations for Agricultural Commodities in the East African Community

Laurent Levard and Damian Gabagambi | Gret ; AFD | 2012/12
Fair Share of Water: Ensuring access to water for family farming

Allaverdian Céline, Apollin Frédéric, Issoufaly Hatim, Merlet Michel, Richard Yves | Coordination Sud | 2012 | Etudes et analyses
Carbon rights : REDD+ and payments for environmental services

Alain Karsenty , Aurélie Vogel , Frédéric Castell | 2012

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has become a central dimension of the contemporary international forest regime. The mechanism seeks to reward actors for keeping or restoring forests as a means to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon rights, here understood as title to carbon
Multi-micronutrient-fortified biscuits decreased the prevalence of anaemia and improved iron status, whereas weekly iron supplementation only improved iron status in Vietnamese school children

Trung Hieu Nguyen , Fanny Sandalinas , Agnès de Sesmaisons , Arnaud Laillou , Phuong Tam Nguyen , Cong Khan Nguyen , Olivier Bruyeron , Frank Tammo Wieringa , Jacques Berger | 2012/01

In Vietnam, nutrition interventions do not target school children despite a high prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies. The present randomised, placebo-controlled study evaluated the impact of providing school children (n 403) with daily multiple micronutrient-fortified biscuits (FB) or a weekly Fe supplement (SUP) on anaemia and
A six-month intervention with two different types of micronutrient-fortified complementary foods had distinct short- and long-term effects on linear and ponderal growth of Vietnamese infants.

Pham V. Phu, Nguyen V. Hoan, Bertrand Salvignol, Serge Treche, Frank T. Wieringa, Marjoleine A. Dijkhuizen, Nguyen C. Khan, Pham D. Tuong, Helene Schwartz, and Jacques Berger | 2012 | 142(9)

Traditional complementary foods (CF) with a low nutrient density have been implicated in growth faltering, stunting, and other adverse outcomes in children. The efficacy of 2 types of locally produced, micronutrient-fortified CF to prevent stunting of infants living in rural Vietnam was evaluated. In a
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to treatment and prevention of cholera, Haiti, 2010

Valery E.M. Beau De Rochars, Julie Tipret, Molly Patrick, et al. | 2011/11 | 11

In response to the recent cholera outbreak, a public health response targeted high-risk communities, including resource-poor communities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A survey covering knowledge and practices indicated that hygiene messages were received and induced behavior change, specifically related to water treatment practices. Self-reported household water
Decentralisation and governance of drinking water services in small West African towns and villages (Benin, Mali, Senegal) : the arduous process of building local governments

Sylvy Jaglin, Clément Repussard and Anne Belbéoc’hc | 2011/06 | 2

This article analyses the development of decentralised water services in small West African towns and villages by focusing on the nature and dynamism of local project management arrangements. The paper will show how the capacity and legitimacy of local government has been undermined by competition

Innovations in Services for Irrigation Users

AVSF,Cedac,Crose,Cudes,Faranfasi so,Fonhadi,ISC,Gret,Iram | Groupe initiatives | 11/2012 | Traverses | 38

Ensuring that irrigation schemes are sustainable when management is transferred to farmers remains a considerable challenge for food security and economic development. Between the dismantling of public advisory services and unsustainable projects still too often limited to providing rapid training courses, irrigation users are quite
Ensuring that Payments for environmental services contribute to fair development

Camille Le Jean | Gret | 10/2012 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement | 9

The degradation of ecosystems worldwide threatens the survival of 1.6 billion people who depend on these ecosystems(water, biodiversity, land tenure, resource use, carbon) and two-thirds of the “environmental services” worldwide. In response to this danger, payments for environmental services (PESs) emerged in the 1990s. An
Sustainable bamboo & rattan supply chain development

B. Phachomphonh ; M. Greijmans ; J.F. Kibler | Gret | 09/2012 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement | 8

Forests form a vital ecosystem that provides multiple services. Lao PDR still harbours 9.7 million ha (source FS2020) of natural forest, containing a rich biodiversity. The key riches of the Lao forest are reflected in the high diversity of non-timber forest products (NTFP), which play
Nanotechnology and Developping Countries – Possible actions for more coordinated and fairer decisions

Lebret Marie-Christine ; Detcheverry Colin Mathilde ; Browaeys Dorothée | Gret | 07/2012 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement | 7

Can nanotechnology—which is often presented as a solution to many of the problems encountered in developing countries—contribute to attain certain Millennium Development Goals? These emerging technologies make it possible to manufacture objects and/or develop procedures on the scale of the nanometer—infinitely small, one billionth
ONG et Politiques Publiques – L’accompagnement d’un programme public de gestion forestière, Etat de l’Amazonas, Brésil

Jean-François Kibler | Gret | 07/2012 | Études et travaux en ligne | 33

Les politiques nationales sectorielles sont le maillon faible des questions du développement, entre plaidoyers internationaux d’une part et projets de terrain d’autre part. Face à ce constat, le Gret s’intéresse à l’appui que peut proposer une ONG à la mise en oeuvre d’une politique publique.
Twize, 10 years of Urban Social Development in Mauritania

Virginie Rachmuhl | Gret | 05/2012 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement | 5

In Mauritania, urban growth has been spectacular since independence. In 60 years, the population of the capital, Nouakchott, has gone from 500 to nearly one million people. This growth has been accompanied by the rapid developement of precarious, under-equipped settlements.
Building cities for all – Lessons from four African experiences

Aurore Mansion ; Virginie Rachmuhl | Gret | 04/2012 | Études et travaux en ligne | 31

Nearly 500 million Africans currently live in slums. Urban operations are one of the main tools for improving living conditions in informal settlements, where land tenure, housing, development and services largely function outside any official system. While progress has undoubtedly been made over the last
Sensitisation and subsidies : the two cornerstones of sanitation !

Julien Gabert | Gret | 01/2012 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement | 4

L’assainissement des eaux usées et des excrétas représente un enjeu sanitaire majeur dans les pays en développement. Alors que de bonnes pratiques d’hygiène et d’assainissement sont indispensables pour éviter les maladies diarrhéiques, au-delà du seul accès à l’eau potable, l’assainissement reste considéré comme le
From market logic to a public water service – What role for public authorities ?

Frédéric Naulet | Gret | Mai 2012 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement | 6

Small water network entrepreneurs have earned the recognition of public authorities and donors over the past fifteen years. In a large number of developing countries, they are now seen as legitimate actors in the field of water supply in small agglomerations and neighborhoods of
Is African Agricultural Policy off to a false start ? about the CAADP

Pierre Baris ; Marc Lévy | Gret | Octobre 2012 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement | 10

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of René Dumont’s book, L’Afrique noire est mal partie (later published in English as False Start in Africa), and the 10th anniversary of the African Union (AU) that now speaks for the continent. In Maputo

Rights and Development : Beyond theory, what practical applications in the field ?

Patricia Huyghebaert | Gret | Mars 2013 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement | 12

The 1966 United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights makes official “political” rights—referring to the right to vote, freedom of expression (including the right to oppose the authorities), the right of peaceful assembly— and “civil” rights—that is to say, all individual liberties such as,

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