Bridging Costa Rica's green growth gap: how to support further transformation toward a green economy Research reports and studies | November 2015 | Ilmi Granoff; Monica Araya; Philipp Ulbrich; Sam Pickard; Caroline Haywood This report explores concrete results of economic and environmental performance in Costa Rica: a country seen as a green growth model. Downloads
To reduce disaster risk, finance sustainable development Comment | 15 July 2014 | Jan Kellett Financing of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) as a standalone issue, whether from national or international sources, is likely to do little to tackle the massive amounts of risk being created across both private and public sectors. Read and comment
Financing disaster risk reduction: towards a coherent and comprehensive approach Research reports and studies | July 2014 | Jan Kellett , Alice Caravani , Florence Pichon This paper attempts to answer what appears to be on the surface a simple question: what evidence is there for coherent and comprehensive national government financing of disaster risk reduction? Download
How governments learn: Learning note from 28th ALNAP Annual Meeting on evidence and knowledge Working and discussion papers | March 2013 | Scriven, K. This learning paper came out of the closed discussions at the Host Government Forum on Humanitarian Response that took place at the ALNAP Evidence & Knowledge meeting in Washington on 4-7 March 2013. Downloads
Comprehensive new reports show progress on Millennium Development Goals Press release | 16 September 2010 A set of new reports from ODI provide country-by-country assessment of MDGs and highlight international development advances; while national and global pictures of progress emerge on a new website as the world enters final five-year push on development goals... Find out more
New analysis reveals African countries are making progress towards the MDGs Press release | 22 June 2010 Ahead of the G-8, a report by the Overseas Development Institute and UN Millennium Campaign reveals African countries top list of 20 countries making the most progress on the Millennium Development Goals. Find out more
Millennium Development Goals Report Card: Learning from progress Research reports and studies | June 2010 A summary of initial findings from an ongoing review of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which will include a set of league tables. The key message is that progress is possible, with a number of countries making real achievements.... Download
From local action to national water policies: the experience of elaboration of the water law in Costa Rica Research reports and studies | August 2006 | Jorge Mora This case study describes the process of participation and incidence of a civil society organisation, Foundation for Urban Development (FUDEU) and other social actors in the elaboration of a new water law in Costa Rica, based on their own local experiences in... Download
Improving watershed management in developing countries: A framework for prioritising sites and practices Research reports and studies | June 2003 | Carlos Perez and Henry Tschinkel This paper summarises observations based on previous assessments of watershed management projects in developing countries. Download
The role of forages in reducing poverty and degradation natural resources in tropical production systems Research reports and studies | June 2001 | M. Peters, P. Horne, A. Schmidt, F. Holmann, P.C. Kerridge, S.A. Tarawali, R. Schultze-Kraft, C.E. Lascano, P. Argel, W. Stür, S. Fujisaka, K. Müller-Sämann and C. Wortmann The paper reviews the role of forage crops in improving the productivity of smallholder farming systems and breaking the cycle of poverty and resource degradation. Download
