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    Poor people speak up to impact urban governance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    For millions of people in developing country cities the informal sector provides the principal source of income. The relationship between city governance and informal traders is generally complex. Conventional legislation affecting the traders has often been inappropriate and has had detrimental effects on their livelihoods.
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    Making Philippine cities child friendly: voices of children in poor communities

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005
    This study analyses how the Philippines’ national Child Friendly Movement, which has engaged government, NGOs, civil society, children and UNICEF, has enhanced the capacity of local governments, communities and young people to fulfil the rights of the poorest children.The study uses participatory methodologies and reflects the viewpoint of children and the community.
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    Partnerships will improve girls’ education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind?
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    The potential market for expanded private-sector family planning in the Philippines

    The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2003
    This report, part of the Country Research Series from the Commercial Market Strategies (CAM) project at USAID, provides information on the growing numbers of those using family planning products and services in the Philippines. As USAID funding for public sector contraceptive supplies is being phased out, there is a growing potential for increased private sector involvement.
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    Freedom of expression and the media in the Philippines

    Article 19, 2005
    This paper looks at the the current erosion of some of the freedom of the press in the Philippines. Despite a tradition of press freedom, there is very little response from either the public at large or the mass media regarding the erosion in the freedom of expression, including the murder of journalists.
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    The impact of fiscal restraint on budgetary allocations for women's programs

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    This paper reviews the gender-differentiated effect of macro-economic policies by examining the impact of persistent revenue shortfalls on the part of the national government in 1997-2003 on the budget allocations for programmes that support gender equality and women’s priority public services in selected departments.
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    Acer: company profile

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005
    The company profile on Acer aims to identify critical issues in Acer’s supply chain from the perspective of poverty eradication and sustainable development. In order to identify the labour issues in Acer’s supply chain, research was undertaken on the working conditions in four factories in China and one in the Philippines.
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    Advancing Reproductive Health as a Human Right: Progress toward Safe Abortion Care in Selected Asian Countries since ICPD

    IPAS, 2004
    Nearly 70,000 women die every year as a result of unsafe abortions, 50 percent of these in Asia. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 1994, addressed abortion related maternal death as an international public health concern. Outcomes of the ICPD included agreement that post abortion care (PAC) should be available where abortion was legal.
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    Politics, science and shrimp farming – whose ‘objectivity’ counts?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Shrimp farming is a major industry in many developing countries, providing important foreign exchange and offering potential for economic development, particularly in rural areas. However, since the early 1990s, researchers, activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been protesting about its environmental and social impacts.
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    Urban governance and access to basic services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In many developing country cities poor people suffer from insecure and over-crowded housing as well as inadequate access to water and sanitation. Municipal governments play a primary role these areas, but often fail to provide basic services. As a consequence, poor people have explored informal ways of gaining access to water, land and shelter.

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