[Bilimsel Haber] PUBL.- Call for Articles, PRSPs in Central Asia & South Caucasus

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PUBL.- Call for Articles, PRSPs in Central Asia & South Caucasus

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Call for Articles
Central Asia and South Caucasus Social Development Network
(CASC-Social) PRSPs in Central Asia and South Caucasus: Five Years On

The LSE Centre for Civil Society is pleased to announce a call for
articles for the publication in the inaugural issue of the CASC-Social
Newsletter in February 2007. CASC-Social was established in May 2006
at the LSE Centre for Civil Society as a network of researchers and
practitioners interested in social development issues in Central Asia
and the South Caucasus (CASC). The first issue of the CASC-Social
Newsletter will be devoted to the experiences with the Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in the CASC region.

Most 'first generation' PRSPs in the CASC region are near completion,
and 'second generation' PRSPs are being currently prepared. The first
generation PRSPs represented an 'experiment', which can stimulate
important policy processes and generate valuable experience and
learning. The PRSPs in the CASC region have received relatively little
attention from international scholars and development professionals.
There is still a need to document and analyse the key achievements and
challenges in developing, implementing and monitoring poverty
reduction strategies in the region. Some of the issues that can be
explored include the extent of the pro-poor orientation of national
governments, civil society mobilisation and public participation in
the design and implementation of policies, donor support and co-ordination,
implementation and monitoring procedures of poverty reduction
strategies, as well as the design and conceptualisation of poverty in
the PRSPs.

You are invited to submit articles (maximum 800 words) with your
analysis of any of these or other relevant issues in one or several
countries of the CASC region. All submissions will be reviewed by the
CASC-Social editorial board, and a selection of articles will be
published in the inaugural issue of the CASC Newsletter in February
2007. The deadline for submission is 20 January 2007. Articles/queries
should be submitted to CASC-SOCIAL-ANNOUNCE-L at LISTSERV.LSE.AC.UK.

Please note that you will need to subscribe to the list in order to be
able to submit articles and receive the newsletter. To subscribe to
CASC-Social, send an email to
CASC-SOCIAL-ANNOUNCE-L at LISTSERV.LSE.AC.UK with you full name,
institutional affiliation and email address.

Guidelines for Submitting Short Articles:

Please include the following information in your submission:
  - Short summary of research methods
  - Main question (s)
  - Implications for policy and practice

Presentation: Articles (max 800 words) should be Word processed and
submitted as an email attachment. The text should be arranged in the
following order of presentation. First sheet: title; subtitle (if
any); author's name, affiliation, contact details (email preferable)
at which you would like to be contacted by other members; and
acknowledgements(if any). Respective affiliations and addresses of
co-authors should be clearly indicated. Please specify in which
capacity you were involved in the research/programme (e.g., academic
researcher, development consultant, project/NGO staff, etc.).
Subsequent sheets: main body of text; list of references and
footnotes; appendices; tables (on separate sheets); captions to
illustrations (on a separate sheet); illustrations.

General formatting: Submissions should not exceed 800 words, and
should be written in good English. Articles that require substantial
editing and formatting will not be published. The text should be one
and one-half spaced and organised under appropriate section headings.
All pages should be numbered. Please do not use underlines or bold for
emphasis, always italics. Foreign words should be set in italics.
Footnotes to the text should be confined to the minimum number
necessary. Footnotes should be numbered sequentially as arabic numbers
superior to the text in the appropriate positions in the text.

References: References should use the Harvard system for published
works, i.e. authors' name, date of publication, and page numbers if
required, in brackets in the text (e.g.: 'Smith (1999, pp. 141-42)
suggested that ...'). Full details should then be provided in a
section under the heading References at the end of the text, giving
author's last name and initials, date of publication, title of book or
journal article, place of publication and publisher. Titles of
journals should be given in full.



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