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  Experts Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in Selected African Countries: Proceedings

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Through presentations and working groups, participants from governments, civil society and donor agencies explored conceptual issues around gender and poverty, how to engender Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the extent to which gender-sensitive budget initiatives are integrated into these.
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  Study of faith based organizations responses to orphans and vulnerable children

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2004

  This study reveals how faith based organisations (FBOs) are supporting orphans and vulnerable children.
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  Common ground: women's access to natural resources and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003

  This brief report links poverty eradication, gender equality and environmental sustainability. It argues that linking the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on these issues can expand women's access to natural resources.
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  Poor selection: how do poor people make education decisions?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What are the main barriers stopping children from poor households getting an education? What motivates poor parents in developing countries to send their children to school? How willing and able are the poor to pay for education? How do parents and children judge the quality of education?
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  Decentralisation and poverty reduction: the reality in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Although decentralisation is often heralded as a means to promote democracy and poverty reduction, there is little reliable evidence to prove these claims. In fact, ruling parties and ethnic elites in Africa have used decentralisation to further strengthen their own power and influence at a local level. New research argues that on its own, decentralization will not reduce poverty.
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  Diverting the flow: a resource guide to gender, rights and water privatization

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003

  This resource guide examines the impact that the privatisation of goods and services such as water has on the livelihoods of women, particularly poor women.Section one presents extracts from a variety of sources that highlight the critical issues related to water privatisation and women, including: water as a human right public versus private goods gender roles and inequities
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  Global governance of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) – good for the poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Can institutions of global governance manage globalisation in a way that benefits the poor? In the field of modern agricultural biotechnology, where production, trade and finance are increasingly globalised, do international institutions provide effective and equitable international regulation of the trade in and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)?
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  Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2003

  This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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  Passing the buck: money transfer systems: the practice and potential for products in Kenya

  Microsave-Africa, 2003

  This study identifies the range of money transfer services which operate in Kenya to find out how businesses and individuals, especially low income earners, use formal, semi formal and informal services to send or receive payments or migrant remittances.It concludes that while there is a potential niche for MFIs, it is not an easy market to get into, and harder for international than for domest
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  Behind the mask: the real face of corporate social responsibility

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This report examines case studies of Shell in Nigeria, British American Tobacco in Kenya and Coca-cola in India, and argues that the corporate world’s commitments to responsible behaviour are not borne out in practice.

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