Document provides a comparative look at women’s political participation in specifiic countries as well as at the obstacles women confront in politics, and outlines 95 best practices to promote gender equality in party politics.

Report provides policymakers and other actors tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic with an overview of the issues identified by older people and OVC, recommendations and examples from successful community-based programs that are improving the lives of older people and OVC.

Describes guidelines that are used by independent auditors in performing recipient-contracted audits required by USAID agreements with non-U.S. recipient organizations. These organizations are referred to as ""recipients"" or ""foreign recipients"" throughout the Guidelines. ""Agreements"" or ""awards"" are defined as USAID-funded grants, contracts, cooperative agreements and loans. The guidelines also provide recipients with help in selecting independent auditors to perform the audits.

Guide sets standards for laws permitting, protecting and regulating civic organizations that choose to obtain legal personality and enables concerned individuals to evaluate an existing law governing civic organizations or to draft a better one.

Document explores different approaches to the development of the private sector's role in the policy formulation, selection andimplementation process.

Document aims to help Save the Children program staff to understand the main concepts behind M&E and how thesecan be applied to HIV/AIDS-related projects.

USAID toolkit exploring the connections between livelihoods and conflict; This ""toolkit"" explains the connections between livelihood and conflict and aims to provide USAID missions with access to concrete, practical program options, lessons learned, and information about potential partners, mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation tools for implementing more effective conflict programs. The document concentrates on how violent conflict can affect individual and community access to essential resources and how an approach that focuses on strengthening that access can help people survive and recover from conflict. Livelihoods, or individuals' or households' access to resources is often a primary factor in motivating violence. In some cases, if livelihood support is offered early enough, conflict may be avoided.

Document reviews current debates and trends and identifies the different approaches that may be deployed to address prevailing shortcomings in M&E of humanitarian assistance.

Guide summarizes the best practices in the field of monitoring and evaluation of national HIV and AIDS programs at the end of the 1990s.

Manual is a practical toolkit and road map for practitioners to use in designing and implementing program M&E.