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  The use of science in UK international development policy

  UK Parliament, 2004

  This inquiry examines how science and technology are informing decisions on the spending of the aid budget, how research is being used to underpin policy making in international development, and how the UK is supporting science and technology in developing countries.It highlights the importance of technology and science as a tool for development.
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  Involving the community: a guide to participatory development communication

  International Development Research Centre, 2004

  This guide introduces participatory development communication concepts, which aim at facilitating the active involvement of different community groups, with the other stakeholders involved, and the many development and research agents working with the community and decision makers.
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  Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2004

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004

  This report proposes that despite economic growth in the Asia and Pacific region in 2003, driven largely by intraregional trade and domestic demand, there remain many obstacles to poverty reduction in the area. The authors examine various countries' poverty reduction strategies within the Asia and Pacific region, in light of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
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  How did David prepare to talk to Goliath? South Africa's experience of trade negotiations with the EU

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This paper analyses the experience of South Africa in pursuing a development-focused trade strategy, and successfully mobilising its limited capacity to conduct negotiations on a free trade agreement with the EU. The paper argues that lessons from this experience are useful to many developing countries who struggle to negotiate development-friendly trade regimes.
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  Working with women at risk: practical guidelines for assessing local disaster risk

  Laboratory for Social Science Research, International Hurricane Research Center, Florida International University, 2003

  This manual is a step-by-step guide for assessing the resources and vulnerabilities of communities "through the eyes of women".
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  Protecting the poor through programmatic adjustment lending in Peru, Brazil and Colombia

  World Bank, 2003

  This briefing paper provides an overview of the main elements and achievements of the World Bank’s Programmatic Structural Adjustment Loans/Credits (PSAL/PSAC) in Peru, Brazil and Colombia.Introduced out of recognition of the inadequacy of project or sectoral adjustment loans in supporting long-term incremental social reform, the PSALs are designed to provide fast-disbursing, flexible, longer-t
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  Aid and conflict: the policy coherence challenge

  WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004

  This paper explores the security dimensions of policy coherence for development (PCD) work, arguing that the future of aid lies in the intersection between security and development. Illustrating the interlinkages between security and development, the paper reports that there is growing evidence of a two-way causality.
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  Learning in partnerships

  British Overseas NGOs for Development, 2004

  This paper aims to highlight some fundamental issues in learning and partnerships, in order to enable development practitioners to feel more confident about taking simple and practical steps towards becoming better learners, as organisations and in partnerships.Increasingly, NGOs are looking seriously at opportunities for learning in their work.
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  Exploring the role of development cooperation agencies in corporate responsibility

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  The paper examines what donors are doing to promote and enable corporate responsibility. It presents findings from a conference held in March 2004.
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  Working with official development assistance agencies

  Global Philanthropy and Foundation Building, Synergos Institute, 2000

  This chapter from the book 'Foundation building sourcebook: a practitioners guide based on experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America' provides examples of ways in which foundations have worked with official development assistance agencies and governments.The chapter discusses what official development assistance agencies are, why these agencies might support grant-making foundations, and how

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