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Introduction / Katherine Bain -- A new participatory approach for school management: the redes educativas in Pasto, Colombia / Martha Laverde and Massimiliano Paolucci -- The role of water committees in the delivery of potable water services to low-income residents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti / Emmanuel Njomo -- Reconstruction and social development in Colombia: the central role of civil society organizations / Jairo Arboleda -- The country assistance strategy in Argentina: how to make a consultative process work / Roberto Senderowitsch and Sandra Cesilini -- The growing pains of an unprecedented civil society-government partnership in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of the Amazon Working Group (GTA) / Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida -- The challenges of forging partnerships for judicial reform / Waleed H. Malik -- Redefining investment to combat poverty in Peru: the ongoing national dialogue / Katherine Bain and Elizabeth Dasso -- Engaging civil society to create sustainable agricultural systems: environmentally-friendly coffee in El Salvador and Mexico / D. Giovannucci, P. Brandriss, E. Brenes, I-M. Ruthenberg, and P. Agostini -- Working with communities to stregthen forest management in Mexico / Daniel Klooster, Christopher Allieri, Andrea Calise, Manuel Couffignal, Brian Sharbono, Sonia Yeo, and Gerardo Segura -- About the authors.