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  IDLO-CISDL compendium of legal best practices on climate change policy

  International Development Law Organisation, 2011

  This paper highlights the challenges that governments face in implementing their international climate change policy commitments and the means to addressing these challenges. The authors note that international action on climate change is a relatively new phenomenon and legal systems were designed prior to the establishment of the multilateral climate change regime.
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  Evaluation of the Performance of Nitrate Reductase Assay for Rapid Drug-susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in North India

  International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 2011

  The objective of the study was to evaluate the performance of nitrate reductase assay (NRA) as a rapid, reliable and inexpensive method for drug-susceptibility testing (DST) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis against firstline antitubercular drugs, such as rifampicin (RIF), isoniazid (INH), streptomycin (STR), and ethambutol (EMB).
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  India & Bangladesh: bilateral trade- potential free trade agreement

  World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2006

  India and Bangladesh have long shared common objectives for closer economic integration within the South Asia region and trade between the two countries has grown rapidly since the early 1990s. A free trade agreement (FTA) has been under consideration for some time. This report seeks to explore the implications of a bilateral FTA.
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  Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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  Information and Communication Technology for Education in India

  infoDev, 2010

  The main objective of the Survey is to create a consolidated source of information on the experiences of using ICTs for Education in the South Asian region, as a baseline for future work, and to provide a framework of reference for policy-makers.
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  Participation in Self-help Group Activities and its Impacts: Evidence from South India

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009

  Institution building is now recognized as vital for poverty reduction across the world. This paper focuses on the determinants of participation in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and its impacts on household welfare. The participation in SHG activities is influenced by various household level and contextual factors.
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  Skills for Green Jobs: A Global View

  International Labour Organization, 2011

  This volume examines the experiences of 21 developed and developing countries in adjusting their training provision to meet the new demands of a greener economy. It shows that skills development is critical to unlocking the employment potential of green growth, yet skills shortages are becoming an obstacle in realising this potential.
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  Water and energy dynamics in the Greater Himalayan region: opportunities for environmental peacebuilding

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011

  The water crisis in the Greater Himalayas constitutes an enormous challenge for the region and a growing, if still under-reported, concern in the West. Elements of the crisis include floods and droughts, unpredictable changes in the timing of water flows, hydropower rivalries and persistently unsafe drinking water.
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  Off-grid rural electrification experiences from South Asia: Status and best practice

  Science Direct, 2011

  South Asia accounts for 42% of the global population without access to electricity. Such a situation continues to exist despite several initiatives and policies to support electrification efforts by the respective country governments.
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  Report of the review meeting: gender and citizenship in the information society

  IT for Change, 2011

  The Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society (CITIGEN) research programme, launched in 2010, aims to explore the notion of marginalised women's citizenship as a normative project or an aspiration for equitable social membership contained in the promise of an emerging techno-social order.

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