Advocacy
Up one levelAdvocacy is the skill to promote ideas, issues or causes. Advocacy can be used to persuade people to change their behaviors, pressure governments to adopt better policies, or convince non-state actors to reconsider their actions. This section of BurmaGuide.Net includes resource summaries that include toolkits and training materials from groups engaged in advocacy for promoting democracy, safeguarding the environment, raising public health standards, protecting human rights, and other areas.
Lawmaking and Stages of Legislative Procedure
This publication offers a brief view of law making and legislative procedures in democratic governance. Legislative bodies pay three broad ...
“Investigating Corruption in Ukraine”
This case study is about Ukrainian Internet journalist Georgy Gongadze, and his yet unsolved 2000 murder. The study of this infamous case is meant ...
Journalistic Legwork that Tumbled a President
This case study of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and its groundbreaking exposés of corruption and wrongdoing by the ...
Public Expenditure Analysis and Management in the
A "national integrity system" is proposed as a comprehensive method of fighting corruption. It comprises eight pillars (public awareness, public ...
Political Parties in the Legislature
This paper argues that political parties are one of the major means of organizing the work of the legislature and developing public policy. The role ...
Facing the Future
This website features a listing of curriculum possibilities for issues related to the future of our environment, population, consumption, peace and ...
Earth Institute News
This site contains a listing of environmental news items, and environmental projects related to water, energy, urbanization, hazards and risk, global ...
Writing and Editing for the Web
This site contains a listing of issues related to developing text on web sites and writing for the internet.
UN: UN: Economic and Social Development
This site features the UN’s Economic and Social Development programme areas, the global dialogue on development, the organizational units working ...
What is being done on … Internet and Other Media to Promote Democracy?
This site highlights organizations that utilize the internet and other media as effective tools for conducting their democracy-building activities ...
Lawmaking and Stages of Legislative Procedure