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    FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Fish stocks declined worldwide in the late 20th century and the international fish trade is increasing. If there is to be enough fish for future generations, everyone in the fishing industry must help to conserve and manage the world’s fisheries.
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    Giving citizens what they want: preference matching and the devolution of public service delivery

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    This paper analyses whether the decentralisation of public service delivery is likely to lead to better preference matching in the Philippines and Uganda.The paper finds that officials at higher levels of local governments (Provinces and Districts) have no knowledge of local preferences but officials at lower levels of government (municipalities and sub-counties) do have some knowledge of prefe
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    Dementia in the Asia Pacific region: the epidemic is here

    Access Economics, 2006
    The dementias are a group of diseases characterised by loss of short-term memory, other thinking (cognitive) abilities and daily functioning. Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the commonest types of dementia.
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    Reclaiming Women's Space at the Peace Table: the Peacebuilding Cyberdialogue as a Model of Using ICTs for Peacebuilding

    GenderIT, 2006
    In 2005 the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) and Isis Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange (WICCE) collaborated to bring together women peacebuilders from 40 women's organizations in Nepal, the Philippines, Timor Leste, Uganda and Zimbabwe to participate in the 'Peacebuilding Cyberdialogue' - a 'real time global town hall meeting' using Internet chat with voice and video / visu
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    Radio Programmes: Women Talk Peace, Radio Productions on UN Security Council Resolution 1325

    2006
    What are women's experiences of conflict in the Philippines and in Uganda? How can they use United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 in a way that can improve their lives?
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    Searching for a solution to solid waste in the Philippines

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2005
    This report looks at the implementation and financing of solid waste management in the Philippines. It assesses how much it costs 41 local government units (LGUs) around the country to provide solid waste management services. It also looks at how much revenue these LGUs, and other private waste contractors and operatives, get from supplying these services.
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    Making property rights accessible: social movements andlegal innovation in the Philippines

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much stronger set of legal resources than ever before, claiming legal land rights remains difficult. Some argue these difficulties are a reason to turn away from state-led land reform and toward a market-assisted land reform (MALR) model.
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    Getting heard in the corridors of power in the Philippines

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    For thirty years non-government organisations have been working to organise urban informal settlements in the Philippines. People’s organisations have won many victories, achieving titles to land and improvements in health, education and water and sanitation services. How have once powerless urban poor communities managed to assert their rights to participation?
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    Higher education in South-East Asia

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2006
    This report is a critical analysis of higher education in South-east Asia. The report is based on case studies from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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    Special evaluation study on the fisheries policy of the Asian Development Bank

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2006
    This report assesses the extent to which the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) fisheries policy guides the design and implementation of ADB-assisted projects and technical assistance grants.

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