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  Women and Children First (UK)

  Advocacy and research organisation working to improve maternal and newborn health.
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  Good practice guide: community mobilisation through women’s groups to improve the health of mothers and babies

  Women and Children First (UK), 2011

  This good practice guide, based on the experience of a project in India and Bangladesh called Saving Mothers and Children, describes an approach that has the potential to reduce maternal and newborn deaths, and to address other health problems.
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  Recognising Rights, Promoting Progress: The global impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010

  This report sets out some examples of the impact CEDAW has had around the world, focusing on case studies where CEDAW’s ratification and implementation has led to concrete changes in the opportunities afforded to women and girls. The case studies are grouped into four main areas: • Ending violence and trafficking in women and girls
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  Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

  Development Research Network, 2010

  This brief focuses on how disaster risk management approaches are taking longer term climate change perspectives. The intention is to highlight, through a series of case studies and research summaries, some best practice/management practices implemented in South Asia and offer recommendations for both practitioners and policy makers.
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  Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

  Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010

  Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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  Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010

  The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.  While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatel
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  Climate Change and Gender Justice

  Oxfam, 2009

  Awareness of the complex and dynamic links between gender relations and climate change is growing fast in gender and development (GAD) circles and among women’s rights activists, but in mainstream policies they still tend to be overlooked. This book offers information and evidence towards a more informed, nuanced gender perspective in the context of climate change.
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  Policies for low carbon growth

  Overseas Development Institute, 2009

  The paper presents a review of low carbon growth policies in two high-income (UK and Germany), five middle-income (China, India, Mexico, Guyana and Nigeria) and two low-income countries (Bangladesh and Ethiopia).
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  Climate adaptation in Asia: knowledge gaps and research issues in South Asia

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008

  The report presents South Asia-wide review of climate change adaptation research, intended to identify present knowledge, gaps on adaptation and application including the practice of research. The study explores how groups in the vulnerable areas of the region are likely to experience stresses from impacts of climate change.
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  Opportunities to achieve poverty reduction and climate change benefits through low carbon energy access programmes

  Ashden Awards, 2008

  This report presents the preliminary results of a survey commissioned and funded by DFID, conducted on international low carbon energy access (LCEA) projects that won the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. The following are the findings:

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