61. EurasiaNet Environment nation in Central Asia, an analysis of the Since the spill, the government, alongwith its and international nongovernmental organizations (ngos) have urged an http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/environment/articles/eav120799.shtml

Eurasia Insight Analysis of current affairs Deals, Developments, and Trends Environment Hazards and Solutions Expert and Observer Interviews Culture News, Book Reviews, and Photo Essays Human Rights Monitoring and Actions Recaps Summaries of Expert Meetings Election Watch Results and Analysis East of Magnum An Online Photo Exhibition EurasiaNet Partners Contributing Sites Grants and Employment Opportunities in Central Eurasia Search EurasiaNet Eurasia Policy Forum Drug Policy, HIV/AIDS and the Public Health Crisis in Central Asia Caspian Revenue Watch ENVIRONMENT THE CYANIDE SPILL IN KYRGYZSTAN: MEASURING CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT Daphne Biliouri: 1/4/00 Almost a year and a half ago, Kyrgyzstan experienced its most serious environmental accident since the tiny Central Asian republic gained independence. The disaster occurred when a truck – belonging to the Kumtor gold mining concern – overturned on May 20, 1998, and approximately two tons of its sodium cyanide cargo spilled into the Barskoon River, not far from the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul. Local and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have urged an independent investigation. However, such appeals have been greeted with silence from government agencies, as well as from businesses and financial institutions involved with the project. The government has accused NGOs and the media of exaggerating the hazards.

62. ASTP - PADCO, Inc. analysis of Potential Roles of government and ngos in Providing Healthand Social Services in Armenia. Under USAID Contract No. 111 http://www.padco.am/reports/82.html

63. IWRAW Asia Pacific Does the government/State party report mention specific Platform for Action thatincludes accountability to ngos? What is your analysis of the efficiency or http://www.iwraw-ap.org/using_cedaw/alternative_guidelines.htm

Why CEDAW? What NGOs can do Writing and Presenting Shadow / Alternative Reports Participating in the reporting process ... Shadow Report Guidelines Alternative Report Guidelines Sample Shadow / Alternative Reports Other ways to contribute www iwraw asia pacific Alternative Report Guidelines When you are unable to get a copy of your government/State party report to the CEDAW Committee, you can still contribute to the reporting process by presenting an Alternative Report to the Committee. This report could be a comprehensive one touching on all the articles of the CEDAW Convention or it could be done on just one or two priority concerns identified through consultation with other women's groups. Summary of the Guidelines What are the problems or issues for women and what evidence is there that these are problems/issues?

64. A Comparaive Institutional Analysis Of Government, NGO And Private Rural Primary to be achieved in government schools, the utapapers2003_11 Keywords Basic education;ngos. Education, and Welfare - Education - - - analysis of Education. http://ideas.repec.org/p/uta/papers/2003_11.html

This file is part of IDEAS , which uses RePEc data Papers Articles Software Books ... Help! A Comparaive Institutional Analysis of Government, NGO and Private Rural Primary Schooling and Pakistan Author info Abstract Publisher info Download info ... Statistics Author Info Sajid Kazmi Zainab Latif Shahrukh Rafi Khan Abstract We argue that Pakistan is unlikely to change its human development ranking and bring it closer to its ranking in per-capita GDP until it copes with it's low achievement in basic schooling. This paper draws on the experience of private sector and NGO schools to identify lessons for the government sector, the main provider of basic education. In a principal-agent framework, we compare the institutional effectiveness of rural primary schooling delivery of the government with the NGO and private sectors. Our main findings are that the NGO schools were the most successful in many respects and that "good management" and/or "good leadership" are the key ingredient for sound schooling. Further, if meaningful "participation" is to be achieved in government schools, the power relations between administrators, teachers, and parents need to be addressed. Download Info To download: If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper

65. US NGOs Call For Review Of Federal Dams US ngos call for review of federal dams, The federal government owns at least 1932significant dams the development of scientific environmental impact analysis. http://www.irn.org/revival/decom/001205.ngocall.html

Conservation groups urge US Government to follow WCD recommendations and begin monitoring federal dams US NGOs call for review of federal dams Released To the New President and 107th Congress: We need to change the way we think about dams in this country. Most dams in the United States were built to serve important social purposes. We know, however, that social goals change. We also know that dams do not last forever. The needs of the country that built stirring monuments to engineering such as Grand Coulee, Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams have changed. But the purposes and uses and facilities for most federal dams are set the day they are authorized and never change. We build them and then seem to forget that the world around them changes. The federal government owns at least 1932 significant dams . Most of these were authorized, designed and built decades ago, some almost a century ago. Some of these dams no longer serve the original purpose for which they were built. For most, the effect they have on rivers, fish and wildlife has never been examined closely because they were built long before the development of scientific environmental impact analysis. We know that these dams do indeed have significant environmental impacts - the litany of threatened and endangered species listings, declines in river-dependent fish and wildlife, and problems with water quality leave little doubt. If we now examined those almost two thousand major federal dams, we would be able to find many ways to improve their performance. In many cases, troublesome environmental impacts caused by dams and water projects can be mitigated simply by changing operations - changing the timing of water releases or using modern hydrological analysis to optimize benefits. In some cases modernizing facilities - installing efficient turbines and generators, eliminating wasted water and power, or installing fish ladders - can increase benefits. In a small number of cases those impacts are simply the price paid for the benefits and we either accept the cost or remove the dam.

66. UofT G8 Research Group. Scholarly Paper. Alan M. Rugman. Political Economy Of Th What analysis can be used to explain this dichotomy? Recently, this has not workedas ngos are operating of Canada, (now the Canadian government) Maude Barlow http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/annual/rugman1998/rugman4.htm

Help Free Search Search by Year Search by Country ... G8 Centre The Political Economy Of The Multilateral Agreement On Investment Alan M. Rugman Analysis of the NGOs Role in the MAI This brief description of recent events portrays a gulf between the environmental and self-serving agendas of the NGOs and the economic reality of global business. What analysis can be used to explain this dichotomy? Two theories will be considered. First, there is a traditional divide between the redistributional/equity concerns of NGOs and the economic/efficiency drivers of business. Democratic governments in Western economies have been able to balance these dual concerns when they embed different weights to these goals in their political platforms, giving voters the ultimate say in the direction to be followed. Recently, this has not worked as NGOs are operating outside of democratic political representation. Although the NGOs can be credited with the defeat of the MAI the real reason for its delay lies elsewhere. Even with the high profile activities of NGOs in 1997 and 1998 the MAI would likely still have been concluded at the OECD if one country had its act together. This, of course, is the United States. The right of the U.S. Congress to pass trade laws and the corresponding current lack of power of the President to negotiate international trade and investment treaties is the real explanation for the delay of the MAI. The failure by the President to obtain "fast track" negotiating authority from Congress in Fall 1997 (for a free trade area of the Americas, but also for a future round of the WTO, and for an MAI) was the single most important reason for the failure of the MAI. Into this vacuum the NGOs were able to step and steal the agenda.

67. James Ensor Rejects The Institute Of Public Affairs' Criticisms Of Oxfam Communi drive against ngos was foreshadowed in Johns s inaugural paper for the IPA in 1997,Whither Labor? This was an analysis of why the Keating government lost http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=304

68. Local NGOs Unhappy About Tangguh Environmental Impact Analysis Tangguh LNG Project Environmental Impact analysis Inadequate for the local administration(Manokwari Local government), the documents as a forum of ngos in the http://www.westpapua.net/news/02/05/080502-lng.htm

May 2002 Jan Feb Mar Apr ... Dec Our Web Diary Our Draft Diary Yahoo Calendar Events Callendar Free Acheh News Free Maluku News Jihad Troops News Know Us More PSelect and Go! Petition to UN WPIA Petition Send Condolences PDP Petition Annan to visit Indonesia, E. Timor this month Key witness in Theys case shot by Kopassus officer Saksi Lolos Dari Tembakan Kopassus Para Tersangka Bantah Culik Theys ... Here is a letter to editor from AWPA-Melb, sent to NZ Herald in response to sensational article on OPM. The New Zealand Herald - May 8, 2002, Fighting talk as independence movement gambles on action , By JOHN MARTINKUS Local NGOs unhappy about Tangguh Environmental Impact Analysis: PRESS RELEASE, Manokwari NGO Alliance for Tangguh Advocacy, KSAD Bantah Anak Buahnya Dibayar dalam Kasus Theys Enam Lagi Anggota Kopassus Jadi Tersangka Kasus Theys Govt vows to keep stability intact ... REGION: West Papuans go to Papua New Guinea to learn eco-forestry Subject: Local NGOs unhappy about Tangguh Environmental Impact Analysis PRESS RELEASE Manokwari NGO Alliance for Tangguh Advocacy Manokwari, 08 May 2002

69. Another Woman Murdered insisting on solutions and pressuring the government to take the evidence to the prosecutor soffice for analysis. It was recommended that the ngos contact the http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/old_1998/dec98/feat2.html

Frontera NorteSur, December 1998 167 Women Murdered Since 1993 NGOs UNHAPPY WITH GOVERNMENT ACTION Anne Marie Mackler, FNS Editor El Diario . Esther Chávez Cano, an anti-violence activist in Cd. Juárez and NGO coordinator, said that the governor's office is like a "bulwark," impossible to penetrate. Therefore it was no surprise when on November 22 Frontera NorteSur The NGO's presented the problems facing the special prosecutor's office to investigate crimes against women noting that the office relies entirely on one telephone line, has no radio, has no archivist, has minimal personnel and too little space. The NGOs also expressed concern for the minimal attention that has been paid to the disappearance of women and the lack of progress in the investigations of murders. Related events occurring in November are chronicled below. On November 6 El Diario , although this number is reported differently by different sources. Since November 6, FNS knows of no follow up stories reported on the status of these arrests. On November 8 the attorney general's office announced the appointment of lawyer Zuly Ponce Prieto as the Special Prosecutor to Investigate the Murders of Women. She will work from her office in Cd. Chihuahua believing that this will not inhibit her ability to proceed with the investigation in Cd. Juárez because "These murders don't only concern residents of Cd. Juárez, but all Chihuahuans and all of México." She is "extremely angry" about the the murders and says, "Women's lives have been taken by some sick person."

70. The Czech Government And NGOs In 2001 International Center for Notfor-Profit Law (ICNL), located in Washington, D.C., is an international organization whose mission is tofacilitate and support the development of civil society on a http://www.icnl.org/journal/vol3iss3/ar_pajas.htm

IJNL Volume 3 Issue 3 The Czech Government and NGOs in 2001 Petr Pajas, First Consulting, p.b.c., Praha Introduction The aim of this presentation is to provide a short overview of recent decisions and actions taken by the Government of the Czech Republic with respect to the financing of activities of civil organizations. This includes: (a) revival of the full operational activity of the Council for Non-governmental Not-for-profit Organizations (b) distribution of privatization assets to active foundations, (c) detailed analytic research of Government donations to the civil sector, and (d) the very recent Government Regulation on Principles of Donation Policy from the Budget of the Czech Republic to Non-governmental Not-for-profit Organizations, based on the analysis mentioned above. New Approach of the Czech Government Toward NGOs. In November 1997, the transitory government of Mr. Tošovský replaced the Government of Mr. Klaus. This was an event marking an important turn in the Czech society from a strictly economical and highly pragmatic approach to an approach that is more sensitive to issues of a free and active civil society. In 1998, this trend brought to power the minority government of Social Democrats. After seven years of permanent disputes regarding the role of civil society and its non-political organizations in modern democracy, one may observe the politicians changing their attitudes toward the civil sector from an arrogant disinterest to recognition and cooperation.

71. Introduction To NGOs - Global Policy Forum - NGOs professor, discusses the role of ngos in representing report provides an overall analysisof the accountability, the importance of government partnerships, and http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/role/index1.htm

about GPF What's New Newsletter Sitemap ... *Opinion Forum Introduction to NGOs This section gives an introduction to the world of NGOs stressing their growing importance in the international arena. Global Policy Forum also addresses the definitions of NGOs and commonly associated terms, and provides very interesting analyses on the role of NGOs. Key Documents Defining NGOs General Analysis Growing Importance ... Tables and Charts Key Documents NGOs and Global Policy-Making (June 2000) An analysis that provides historical background and emphasizes NGOs' growing contemporary importance, diversity, impact on policy, etc. Global Civil Society 2003 (October 7, 2003) The London School of Economics and Political Sciences has launched the third volume of its civil society yearbook. It describes the nature and history of global civil society and includes issue-oriented case studies, important records and data, as well as articles on current issues. See also: Global Civil Society 2002 and Global Civil Society 2001 "NGOs and the United Nations" by Global Policy Forum (June 17, 1999) A comprehensive and critical report that reviews recent progress and problems of NGOs at the UN. Prepared as input to the second report of the Secretary General. Includes comments on GPF's report. Rev. Moon and the United Nations: A Challenge for the NGO Community (November 2001)

72. Research And Opinion On Civil Society a survey regarding the Moldovan third sector given to the general public, governmentagencies and Cemetery Bombing ngos and the Mafia analysis of November http://www.friends-partners.org/~ccsi/resource/rsrchopn.htm

Documents This section contains links to articles, studies, and other writings on themes related to civil society that are available online. If readers wish to suggest items that should be added, please notify us by e-mail: ccsi@u.washington.edu Index Conferences Civil Society Education Economic Transition ... Political Transition Conferences A successful International Community Schools Conference was held in Omsk, Russia, October 9-13. "Over 130 people from 12 countries and 23 regions of Russia participated. The goal of the conference was to establish understanding and partnership between government education departments and the community school movement. Click here , for the full report on this unusual conference by Tatiana Buinovskaya ... Report on Osh conference on Democracy and Religion , March 24-25, sponsored by Central Asian Media Support Project. Kharkiv Declaration Adopted by the International Conference "Strengthening of Connections between NGO's for Increased Influence on the Democratization Process in Ukraine" that took place in October 27-30, 1999. Civil Society Is Bush A Communitarian?

73. Japan Analysis Japan ReInvents Inadequate Policies. A major Japanese NGO has recently produced a damning report on Japan's official report to the Convention. The government's analysis of Japan's predicted CO2 http://www.climatenetwork.org/eco/E4Japan.html

Japan Re-Invents Inadequate Policies A major Japanese NGO has recently produced a damning report on Japan's official report to the Convention. According to the People's Research Institute on Energy and Environment (PRIEE), Japan's report is simply a "rehash of older official reports". They go on to note that "all the substantive measures explained have already been implemented and have failed to reduce the increase of greenhouse gases." The following is a summary of the PRIEE report. "The government's analysis of Japan's predicted CO2 emissions is somewhat confusing. CO2 emissions in 1990 were 320 million tons, and that in 2000 they will be 330 million tons, but per capita emissions were 2.59 tons in 1990 and will be 2.6 tons in 2000. The estimates used for anticipated population increase are such that although total CO2 emissions will increase, per capita emissions will remain unchanged. But it is almost certain that the ordinarily used intermediate estimate of population growth produced by the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Institute of Population Problems is too large. If this is true, then the report's projection for per capita CO2 emissions are too low. "The report fails to explain what assumptions were made when calculating future CO2 emissions as a whole. The rate of economic growth, oil price fluctuations, and how these are linked to energy demand are not covered. Nor is there any explanation of the energy demand and supply mix underlying their predictions. Instead, they seek support from old legislation - the Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy, simply saying that it is effective.

74. E-Government & Public Sector IT News From PublicTechnology.net Alliance of egovernment suppliers is launched NGOsThe Alliance of eGov Budget analysis,Public Spending by Institute for Fiscal Studies NGOsArticle by http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&cati

75. ILAB - Analysis Of Issues Raised In Submission 9701: Gender Discrimination And P analysis of Issues Raised in Submission 9701 Gender Discrimination and to the Submission, the government of Mexico fails to 10) The Mexican government recognized that these laws http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/nao/9701analysis.htm

U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs www.dol.gov/ilab Search / A-Z Index Find It!: By Topic By Audience By Top 20 Requested Items By Form ... By Location June 9, 2004 DOL Home ILAB NAO Analysis of Issues Raised in Submission 9701: Gender Discrimination and Pregnancy Based Discrimination By: R. Leticia Cuevas Edited by Kathlene McDonald December, 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Mexican Legislation Legislative History: Article 133-I of the FLL Constitutional Sources of Article 133-I: Article 4 on Equality ... End Notes ANALYSIS OF ISSUES RAISED IN SUBMISSION 9701: GENDER AND PREGNANCY BASED DISCRIMINATION INTRODUCTION The U.S. National Administrative Office (U.S. NAO) accepted Submission 9701 for review under the terms of Articles 1, 3, 4, 16(3) and Annex 1 of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC). The Submission raises issues of gender and pregnancy-based discrimination in Mexico. According to the Submission, the Government of Mexico fails to enforce Article 133-I of the Federal Labor Law (FLL), which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of age and sex. The Submission challenges the legality of pregnancy screening requirements as a condition of employment. Some company policies, including those in the public sector, require that female applicants show certificates indicating that they are not pregnant. Job applications are conduits for discriminatory practices as they contain questions on pregnancy status. In post-employment pregnancy discrimination cases, women in the manufacturing sector undergo involuntary pregnancy testing, accomplished secretly through urine samples taken during periodic medical examinations.

76. CICE - 1(1) Steiner-Khamsi A microlevel analysis helps us to explain why on external funding from internationalNGOs but, at time, establish alliances with national government officials http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/articles/gsk111.htm

About the Authors How to Cite this Article View/Print Article from PDF Format Volume 1, Number 1 / November 15, 1998 Are NGOs Overrated? Too Far From Home? 'Modulitis' and NGOs Role in Transferring Prepackaged Reform Gita Steiner-Khamsi Teachers College, Columbia University In "Too Close For Comfort? The Impact of Official Aid on Nongovernmental Organizations," Michael Edwards and David Hulme (1996) poignantly elaborate on the pitfalls of a success story. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots organizations (GROs) start constituting themselves in the 1970s. They struggle through a period of scarce resources, political exclusion, and skepticism from state bureaucrats. They survive. Then, their destiny takes a sudden turn in the 1980s. Whatever NGOs and GROs stood and struggled for over the last two decades-efficiency, cost-effectiveness, closer-to-the-people-is high in demand. They gain momentum. The "New Policy Agenda" (Edwards & Hulme, 1996) awards them further prominence and paves the way for increased government funding. They increase in number and size. Today, BRAC in Bangladesh, for example, has more than 10,000 staff, covers 15,000 villages, and plans to serve three million people and children in over 100,000 schools (Edwards & Hulme, 1996). The success story is based on a trend to use NGOs increasingly as channels for bilateral aid or "official aid." They become institutionalized, mainstreamed, and dependent on external funding. In Bangladesh, for example, there was a fivefold increase of external funding within five years (Hashemi, 1996). In 1988-89, only 162 NGOs were internationally funded, whereas in 1991-92 the number of NGOs in Bangladesh receiving external funds rose to 986. The impact of NGOs' upward accountability to external donors deserves attention. NGO activities have become skewed toward donor-driven agendas for development rather than indigenous priorities.

77. BD: E.Timorese Grassroots Organisations / Organisasi Populer (East Timor) formed by these ET ngos Grupo Alfabetização to establish a democratic governmentof national for Reconstruction Monitoring and analysis / Instituto Timor http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/linksindig.htm

BACK DOOR Newsletter on East Timor home links other links search BACK DOOR Newsletter on East Timor (based within East Timor) Organisasi dan jaringan populer: (East Timor info listed below is updated irregularly and may not be current) Up-Dated: Jan 24, 2002 NEW = Added to BACK DOOR Website since last Monday's Emailout Contents: Overviews NGO Forum: Complete list of 170 registered East Timorese NGOs working in East Timor NGO Forum / ACFOA: LSM-LSM Timor Loro Sa'e NGO Forum / ACFOA: East Timorese NGOs ... La'o Hamutuk: East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis Overviews Update ET NGO Forum: Complete list of 199 registered East Timorese NGOs working in East Timor: Updated Jan 19, 2002 http://www.geocities.com/etngoforum/nngo.xls Bahasa Indonesia: Edisi Kedua, Mei 2000 [PDF 225kb] LSM-LSM Timor Loro Sa'e Diperbarui: 19 Januari, 2002 Petunjuk Sementara : Petunjuk sementara – edisi kedua – ini dipersiapkan oleh NGO Forum Timor Loro Sa’e dengan bantuan Australian Council for Overseas Aid untuk mengumumkan adanya dan pekerjaan LSM-LSM Timor Loro Sa’e, dan memudahkan komunikasi dengan sektor penting ini dan di antara anggotannya. Second Edition, May 2000 [PDF 225kb]

78. ICSS -- About Us unfair to criticise either the government or ngos certain directions, away from politicalanalysis toward sentiment On another level, the ngos offer idealistic http://icssa.org/ICSS - theme_Pakistan_govt_vs_NGOs.htm

Pakistan Govt. Vs NGOs Manipulation of Good Intentions. The tension between government and NGOs is growing with each passing day with no end in sight. Some NGO sympathizers are spreading the misconception that the government has taken the task of eradicating NGOs altogether, whereas the government shows concern over the out of control foreign finance of local research and activities undertaken by the NGOs. Some recent incidents and emerging trends in the NGO sector have also reminded the government of the English proverb about how whoever pays the piper picks the tune. The two-way suspicion is the direct result of lack of policy and practice, which could foster a more conducive environment for positive NGO contribution to development. Some of the high ranking government officials have publicly criticised NGOs of working against the country and not only threatened to take stern action against the "ghost NGOs" but also materialised their threats with canceling registrations of 273 NGOs in Sindh and 71 in Islamabad "due to inactivity." Undoubtedly, NGOs are major contributors to development processes but all of them are not alike and the government gets suspicious when instead of playing operational role, the NGOs start playing the oppositional role.

79. JURIST - Lindsey: Indonesia's New Anti-Terrorism Laws - Damned If You Do, Damned Human rights activists, proreformasi (reform movement) leaders and ngos opposedthe dysfunction of the legal system and overt government support for their http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew65.php

FORUM JURIST OPINION Forum >> Indonesia's New Anti-Terrorism Laws... INDONESIA'S NEW ANTI-TERRORISM LAWS: DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T Professor Tim Lindsey Director, Asian Law Center University of Melbourne Law School Melbourne, AUSTRALIA JURIST Guest Columnist O n October 18, Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri issued Government Regulation in Lieu of Law No. 1/2002 on the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Terrorism, and No. 2/2002 on the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Terrorism in Relation to the Bomb Explosion Incident in Bali, 12 October 2002. Government Regulations in Lieu of Law ( Peraturan Pemerintah Pengganti Undang-Undang ) or Perpu derive their authority from the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia (as amended). Although under Article 20 lawmaking is the exclusive right of the DPR ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat , People's Representative Assembly) or legislature, Article 22 provides, that "in the event of a compelling emergency", the President may issue a Perpu. The Perpu must, however, be approved by the DPR at its next session, failing which it will lapse. This is significant because the new regulations are a revised form of the Anti-terrorism Bill that has been debated in the DPR for months, without progress. Human rights activists, pro-

80. Firstamendmentcenter.org: Analysis take effect for major government departments until considerable criticism from manyNGOs and politicians factual information, its analysis, research findings http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=11404

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