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    Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

    Synergy Project, USAID, 2003
    This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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    Pro-poor democracy?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does representative democracy give poor people a voice? Do municipal decision makers respond to poor people's needs and priorities? Can the poor lodge complaints when services fail to operate adequately? Is a combination of formal structures of representative democracy and mechanisms permitting organised political engagement the answer?
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    Making a difference: what can municipal government do?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Poverty reduction measures usually focus at the national level: primary health care, education, trade and fiscal policy are wholly or partly central government responsibilities. Should this be the whole story? Research by the University of Birmingham shows that there is room for manoeuvre at the local and municipal level to make a difference in reducing poverty.
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    Financing cities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Probably the greatest constraint facing city governments as they seek to address poverty is the inadequacy of financial resources.
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    Beyond confrontation?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do community resources help promote engaged citizenship? How do Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) help the poor access the resources they need to improve their lives? How, if at all, do CSOs collaborate with local government institutions or other state agencies? When they do collaborate what is achieved and who benefits?
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    Must the small go to the wall? Financing small enterprises

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) become more efficient? Can the success of northern SMEs be replicated in developing countries? How has trade liberalisation impacted SMEs?
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    Expanding DOTS in the context of a changing health system

    World Health Organization, 2003
    In conjunction with mounting responses to the various public health priorities, many countries are striving to strengthen their health systems to make them more equitable, effective, efficient, responsive, and sustainable.
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    Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
    Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
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    Integration of biodiversity into national agriculture sectors

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002
    This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The study consists of the following chapters: managing agricul

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