'In agreement with Zed Books earlier publications in the series are granted open access status. CROP is happy to present Best Practices in Poverty Reduction - An Analytical Framework, edited by Else Øyen et al. The book is the first attempt to take the concept of best practice out of its highly politicized and applied context, and to treat it as a scientific tool that can seriously add to the toolbox needed for improved comprehension of the many failures in poverty reduction'.

'New poverty estimates published by the World Bank reveal that 1.4 billion people in the developing world (one in four) were living on less than US$1.25 a day in 2005, down from 1.9 billion (one in two) in 1981. The new numbers show that poverty has been more widespread across the developing world over the past 25 years than previously estimated, but also that there has been strong—if regionally uneven—progress toward reducing overall poverty.' by Ravallion and Chen, The World Bank, 2008.

The NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet (“Another Way”) of the Netherlands promotes a Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects for the world’s poor. This work is in the public domain. It can be accessed, downloaded from website www.flowman.nl and used free of charge. The website has been further enriched by a series of four Powerpoint® Presentations in English and French which can be directly accessed from the homepage.

The UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly will convene a High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at UN Headquarters in New York on 25 September 2008. At the halfway point towards 2015, while significant progress has been made, accelerated efforts are needed by all stakeholders to meet the goals. The High-level Event will be a forum for world leaders to review progress, identify gaps, and commit to concrete plans and resources. By asking world leaders to a more...

Over 7,000 Tanzanians Give Their Opinions on livelihood, education, health, governance, infrastructure, well-being, citizen participation, and more. This report is the largest perception survey conducted in Mainland Tanzania to date. 7,879 Tanzanians, aged from 7 to 90 years, from ten mainland regions, were asked for their opinion on aspects of: economic progress, their standard of living, quality of and access to economic and social services, and trends in governance.

This report was produc more...

Africa has a long history of migration. Currently, more than 16 million Africans are classified as migrants, and their numbers are increasing. Women are increasing in numbers among Southern Africa's migrant population. Women encompass 37.4% of regular migrants from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to South Africa, and their numbers are increasing.

Dynamic Youth is a free online monthly magazine, dedicated to Global Youth Development. The framework of this magazine includes all the areas of interest (issues) identified by the UNO under the concept of Global Youth Development and a few additions of local interest.  The magazine is addressed to the global youth and its main objective is to harness youth energy towards working for Global Peace and Prosperity.  The monthly magazines are uploaded on the last working day of the earlier more...

While the Government has developed strategies to combat poverty, especially for children and pensioners, there is no strategy to challenge women’s poverty specifically. This project set out to support women living in poverty so that they could go beyond being ‘witnesses’ to poverty to become actively involved in policy development. It allowed them to develop ideas to improve their lives and better understand how policy is made.

Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery in which people, mostly women and girls, are abducted, deceived or coerced into situations of forced labor. Human trafficking includes buying, selling and moving people from one location to another against their will, and it constitutes a grave violation of human rights.

The root causes of trafficking include poverty, violence and political conflict.

Do land tenure reforms have a role to play in addressing this global food crisis? The answer, over the mid-term and beyond, is decidedly “Yes.” But the importance of these reforms—which bear on some of the largest groups most severely impacted—must be consciously recognized as part of the current dialogue on solutions. It is vital to recognize that the climb in world food prices is likely to be with us for a lengthy period of time, requiring far more than short-term responses. It is tim more...