Annual Call for Projects 2005
Promoting Decent Work in Construction and Related Services: the Key Role of Local Authorities
Although local authorities in developing countries often play a significant role in fostering construction projects and related activities, information and knowledge about their potential for promoting decent work (including the creation of employment) in such a sector through good policy-making and strategic allocation of public resources is still poorly understood. Publications on decent work have not acknowledged the potential role of local authorities but focused on the private sector. In addition, many development and aid agencies have...
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Annual Call for Projects 2004
The New Configuration and Management Techniques of Value Chains of Global Enterprises and the Resulting Consequences for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in North and South
This project aims to examine new configurations and new management techniques used by multinational corporations in the organisation and management of their international value chains, in order to better understand different types of cooperation between Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and very large corporations worldwide.
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Small Grant - 2004
Towards Generalized and Equitable Social Security Coverage in Africa. Linkages between Public and Private Social Protection Initiatives Aiming at the Extension of Social Protection for the Poor and the Excluded in the Informal Economy
This project aims at finding practical solutions for expanding social security coverage in Africa. The objectives of the project are: to analyse on a comparative basis public efforts and community-based social protection systems; to identify and carry out a typology of the various mechanisms used in this area, to provide an overview of ways in which social protection could be extended, based on a combination of public and private efforts; to promote the research results in countries where the existence of community-based social protection...
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Annual Call for Projects 2002
Global Solidarity: Towards a More Rational and Transparent Promotion of Micro-Finance Institutions
Micro-finance is an anti-poverty strategy that can make a tangible contribution to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goal to halve poverty by 2015. However, contrary to ideas expressed by promoters of that strategy, with few exceptions, most micro-finance institutions do not fully recover costs and remain dependant on contributions from donors. This research project aims, firstly, to analyse the characteristics of an efficient, poverty-oriented micro-finance institution and determine whether all existing institutions are indeed...
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Annual Call for Projects 2001
Social Challenge of Development: Globalisation, Inequalities and Social Protection
Within the GIAN framework and with its financial support, six institutions have decided to co-operate in an analysis of the effects of globalisation on inequality. This is one of the major questions of our time, at the intersection of politics and economics. The project considers the general impact of globalisation, and also focuses on health, education and social protection.
The Graduate Institute for Development Studies (GIDS) in Geneva, UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) and the Faculty of Economics of...
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