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    Urban governance and access to basic services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In many developing country cities poor people suffer from insecure and over-crowded housing as well as inadequate access to water and sanitation. Municipal governments play a primary role these areas, but often fail to provide basic services. As a consequence, poor people have explored informal ways of gaining access to water, land and shelter.
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    The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

    Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002
    This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.
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    Diverting the flow: a resource guide to gender, rights and water privatization

    Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003
    This resource guide examines the impact that the privatisation of goods and services such as water has on the livelihoods of women, particularly poor women.Section one presents extracts from a variety of sources that highlight the critical issues related to water privatisation and women, including: water as a human right public versus private goods gender roles and inequities
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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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    Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003
    National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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    Behaving badly? Young men and sexual health

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can young men change their attitudes to sex and sexual health? What methods can be used to challenge their views? Researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and Southampton University considered ways of improving the sexual health of young men in developing countries.
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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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