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  Community based adaptation to climate change bulletin

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2007

  The bulletin describes the second community based adaptation (CBA) workshop held in Dhaka in February 2007. The workshop aimed to share the latest developments in community-based adaptation programmes, priorities and solutions with a view to integrating the lessons into national and international development programmes.
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  Strategic Impact Inquiry on Women's Empowerment: Report of Year 1

  CARE International, 2005

  This report presents the findings from the first year of CARE's Strategic Impact Inquiry into Women's Empowerment. One striking result of the inquiry was the general lack of attention within CARE to defining what is meant by women's empowerment.
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  The South South North Capacity Building Module on Poverty Reduction

  South South North, 2006

  The South South North network adopts a pragmatic approach to tackling climate change and sustainable development. This module incorporates the main approaches and provides a toolkit for practitioners wishing to implement mitigation and/or adaptation in communities in developing countries.
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  Participatory Vulnerability Analysis: a step–by–step guide for field staff

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. This guide is specifically developed consistent with the PVA approach to: 
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  Social protection and internal migration in Bangladesh: supporting the poorest

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007

  How does migration exacerbate the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or food? And how can migration itself facilitate access to an informal form of social protection for poorer households, even if this is risky and does not always lead to positive outcomes?
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  Caring for yourself: coping with illness in rural Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  When a household is affected by illness it responds by adopting a variety of coping strategies. Research suggests that household-level treatment strategies can provide effective ways of coping with the impact of illness on health and livelihoods.
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  Linking poverty and health care for very poor people in Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Ill-health can be a cause of poverty and a major threat to livelihoods. Micro-credit schemes and health systems often do not reach people in extreme poverty in rural Bangladesh. Interventions that combine health and livelihood protection measures are more effective at meeting the health-related needs of very poor people.
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  Who pays?: how British supermarkets are keeping women workers in poverty

  ActionAid International, 2007

  This report discusses the supply chains that link UK supermarkets to producers in developing countries. The report argues that the structure of the supermarket supply chains has changed in recent years in ways that allow supermarkets to “cherry pick” suppliers from developing economies.
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  Community involvement in youth reproductive health and HIV prevention

  Family Health International, 2007

  Are reproductive health and HIV prevention outcomes for young people better when a project makes an explicit effort to involve community members? This briefing paper summarises the findings of a range of studies that have sought to investigate this question.
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  Child recruitment in South Asian conflicts: Bangladesh

  Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2007

  What drives the use of children as soldiers in conflicts, and what do we know about reducing their vulnerability to recruitment? This document presents information, lessons learned and recommendations on children’s situation in Bangladesh from the report: Child Recruitment in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.

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