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  Resource manual on flash flood risk management module 1: community-based management

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2008

  Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, the poor, women and children, are the worst hit. This manual aims to help communities build their capacity to manage flash floods and other disaster risks themselves.
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  Is water lagging behind on aid effectiveness? Lessons from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda

  Overseas Development Institute, 2008

  This paper reviews the extent to which the five Paris Principles (PPs) on Aid Effectiveness (AE) are being applied in the water and sanitation sector. Comparisons are made between the water, health and education sectors. The five principles as set out in the Paris Declaration (PD) on AE are: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability.
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  Approaches to rural poverty alleviation in developing Asia: role of water resources

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2008

  Focusing on water resources and irrigation, this paper documents a talk by Michael Lipton exploring approaches to poverty alleviation in developing Asia. The talk discusses the findings of a recent paper ‘Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia: poverty in irrigated agriculture - realities, issues, and options with guidelines’.
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  Urban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

  Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006

  This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".
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  Bangladesh: study of non-state providers of basic services

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2006

  This report, from a series of country studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development, examines non-state providers (NSPs) of health, education, water and sanitation in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has an unusually large non-government organisation (NGO) sector with an estimated 22,000 organisations.
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  Nanotechnology, water and development

  Meridian Institute, 2006

  This paper draws together a range of issues that need to be considered and addressed in applying technology, particularly nanotechnology, for improving basic sanitation and access to clean water.
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  Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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  Including disabled people in water and sanitation initiatives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The link between disability and poverty is clear: two thirds of the world’s disabled people live in low-income communities, with most in rural areas. Water and sanitation facilities are considered basic needs and are central to global development. Yet programmes and service providers continue to ignore the needs of disabled people.
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  Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.

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