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Putting farmers at the centre of the rice seed systems in Bangladesh
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Poor farmers need cheap and easy access to quality seeds to improve their livelihoods. In Bangladesh, rice is a particularly important crop for smallholder farmers. What can be done to increase small farmers’ access to seed?DocumentRice-duck farming: new opportunities for farmers in Bangladesh
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Helping farmers to learn and adopt environmentally friendly cultivation techniques is important for developing sustainable agriculture. Policymakers need to understand how cultivation techniques spread and identify the challenges involved in increasing the scale of these.DocumentFamily planning in Pakistan: impact of new clinics
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Pakistan has one of the highest levels of unmet need for family planning in the world. Thirty-three percent of women wish to limit or space their births but do not use any contraception. More than 30 years of government and private sector family planning provision appears to have had very little success.DocumentPromoting organic farming in Bangladesh
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Bangladesh has some of the most fertile agricultural land in the world. However, the move from subsistence to commercial farming has increased the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Many non-governmental organisations have been supporting and training smallholder farmers in organic farming methods.DocumentVillage phone replication manual: creating sustainable access to affordable telecommunications for the rural poor
UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, 2005This document is a guideline for replicating the Village Phone programme in a new country.DocumentRelationships, happiness and well-being: insights from Bangladesh
ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006Why are people perceived as being 'happy' when their circumstances would often seem otherwise?DocumentFuture policy choices for the education sector in Asia
Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006Although considerable progress has been made in recent years towards educational goals in Asia, much remains to be achieved.DocumentIndigenous and tribal peoples: an ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers
International Labour Organization, 2005Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally benefit much less than others from overall declines in poverty.DocumentBridging the divide: lessons and challenges in promoting gender equality
Department for International Development, UK, 2004This report presents the main findings of a Gender Review carried out by DFID Bangladesh (DFIDB), which aimed to develop guidelines to help promote gender equality more effectively.A number of concerns emerged around how best to achieve gender equity, namely:the need to account for diversity and its effect on people's livelihood opportunitieswomen's lack of control over resources asDocumentTracking resource and policy impact: incorporating millennium development goals and indicators and poverty reduction strategy paper monitoring across sectors
Statistics Norway, 2004The main aim of this report is to show how a statistical system for tracking resource and policy impact could be designed and implemented.Pages
