Keywords for cataloguing case stories

In order to catalogue case stories and documents, we need ways to label them.  For case stories in particular, it will be helpful to have a consistent way of labeling them to make it easier for people to find relevant or related cases.  Here is a list of suggested sectors which we are now beginning to use.  These are not exclusive; a case story may be tagged with multiple topics.  Please leave comments below (or email brian@lencd.org) to share your ideas about the most helpful way to divide up the subject matter. 

Topic

What's included

Agriculture, fisheries, and food security

Agriculture and food related work ranging from production to distribution and marketing.  Includes fisheries.  Includes cash crops as well as food crops.  For forestry, use natural resource use and management.  For food security, see also social protection. 

Aid management

The impact and effectiveness of aid, including the implementation of  aid instruments (PRSPs, SWAps, budget support, etc)

Civil society

Work specifically focused on capacity development of civil society including non-governmental organisations

Climate change

Climate change impacts, adaptation, mitigation
Disabilities Initiatives related specifically to people with disabilities

Disaster preparedness and mitigation

Preparing for and mitigating the effects of natural disasters of all types (flood, earthquake, fire, etc).  Includes disaster preparedness and prevention, risk management, disaster response and reconstruction.

Economic development

Development of economic activity and employment in any industries not otherwise listed.  Includes trade and access to markets at any scale from local to global.

Education and training

Education work at any level, including primary, secondary, higher education, and also including vocational training and skill development.

Energy sector

Producing, processing, and distributing energy, including coal, oil, and gas as well as various sources of electricity; rural electrification; solar and alternative energy sources.
Environmental protection Environmental protection/conservation.  Includes biodiversity.  For recycling, use solid waste management.  For sustainable management and extraction of resources (e.g. forestry) use 'natural resource use and management'.  See also climate change. sanitation, solid waste management.

Financial services

Financial services at all scales from microfinance to insurance, banking, and investment.  Includes commercial and not-for-profit enterprises, but does not include public finance, which is included under public administration.

Gender

Initiatives with a very specific gender perspective.

Governance, politics, and participation

Democracy, elections, parliamentary strengthening, political parties, political participation, voice and accountability

Health sector

Health work for any sector of the population (e.g. children, women, elderly) and at any stage (e.g. preventative measures, acute care).  Includes child nutrition, maternal health, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, malaria prevention, workplace health and safety, population policy and programmes, etc.

Human rights

Work related to the understanding, monitoring, and protection of human rights, rights-based approaches, legal frameworks.  See also justice.

Information and communications technology

Any work relating to ICTs, including telephone, radio, television, Internet, and computer systems of all descriptions, and including infrastructure as well as training.  For electrical infrastructure, use the “energy sector" category.

Justice

Access to justice, justice sector accountability, legal systems, policing and crime prevention, penal systems, transitional justice

Monitoring and evaluation

Monitoring, evaluation, results frameworks

Natural resource use and management

The sustainable use and management of natural resources, including forestry, water resources, minerals, oil and gas, soil, and including biodiversity.  Use energy sector for fossil fuels; use agriculture for food-related biological resources; use environmental protection for initiatives related to resource management and conservation without a significant extraction component.

Public administration

Public service management, public financial management, procurement, socially responsive budgeting, taxation, civil service reform, non-state provision of public services, decentralisation and local government.  Includes accountability and anti-corruption.  Distinct from governance.

Sanitation

Systems for managing and processing water-borne sewage.

Security and peacebuilding

Activities related to the maintenance of peace and security such as conflict prevention, management, and resolution; DDR; SALW; statebuilding; peacebuilding

Social exclusion

Work focusing attention on exclusion, inequality, marginalised groups, and empowerment in various dimensions.  For exclusion that is related to gender or to disabilities, use those keywords instead.

Social protection

Work related to social protection schemes of all kinds, including cash transfers, pensions, social insurance, labour market interventions, and community-based systems.  Also includes housing/shelter, food security.

Solid waste management

Systems for managing the collection and disposal of solid waste (including household and industrial waste), and recycling.  (See water and sanitation for liquid waste)

South-South cooperation

Examples of South-South and triangular cooperation.  Items tagged with this would also be tagged with other sectors to identify the type of activity being undertaken.
Tourism sector Tourism development.

Transportation

Infrastructure and services for all modes of transportation, including roads, railways, seaports and shipping, and air travel.

Water supply

Systems for managing and distributing water supplies.  Sanitation is listed separately.  For management of water resources, use natural resource management.

Do you think these are good ways of classifying capacity development case stories?  Should we delete or merge some?  Split others?  Please leave comments with your ideas and suggestions.

 

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