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    Empowering women and girls: challenges and strategies in gender equality

    World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2005
    This paper presents a collection of eight articles and case studies discussing the challenges, achievements and gaps in the empowerment of women and girls.
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    Can urban housing regulations be pro-poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Bureaucracy is a significant barrier to providing affordable shelter. Slums are often the result of inappropriate regulatory frameworks. High standards, restrictive regulations and complex procedures force countless people into informal settlements. What can be done to ensure that formal planning systems become more transparent and start to work on behalf of the poor?
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    Debating GM crops

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the US and Europe, perhaps the main battleground today is the developing world.
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    External evaluation of roll back malaria: report of RBM stakeholder interviews

    Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization (WHO), 2002
    This report, produced by Health Partners International for Roll Back Malaria (RBM), summarises the findings of interviews conducted as part of the 2002 external evaluation of RBM. Telephone interviews were conducted with a range of stakeholders in seven countries: Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Burkina Faso, Bolivia and India.
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    Faith in action: examining the role of faith-based organizations in addressing HIV/AIDS

    The Global Health Council, 2004
    This interim report from the Global Health Council provides the preliminary findings from the initial phase of the Faith in Action analysis. This report focuses on responses from key informants who do not work in faith-based organisations (FBOs) to the following question: how can FBOs be constructively involved in addressing the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic?
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    DFID Education Fact Sheet

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    This DFID fact sheet presents a brief overview of the global situation of education, and DFID’s commitment to progress in the education sector.
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    Condom social marketing: selected case studies

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000
    Social marketing has become increasingly popular among governments and donors as an efficient and effective means of addressing serious health issues in developing countries. In the mid-1980s, condom social marketing (CSM) emerged as an effective tool in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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    Multiple public-private job-holding of health care providers in developing countries: an exploration of theory and evidence

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004
    This review examines the systemic and individual causes of multiple jobholding (MJH) and evidence on its prevalence through an analysis of country-level conditions. The paper places MJH in the context of health systems and government policies in low and middle-income countries, including Zambia, Indonesia, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Poland, Kenya and Mexico.
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    Public-private mix for DOTS implementation: what makes it work?

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004
    This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization compares processes and outcomes of four public-private mix (PPM) projects implementing DOTS for tuberculosis (TB) control, in New Delhi and Pune, India, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, and Nairobi, Kenya.
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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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