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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    Missing in action: teacher and medical provider absence in developing countries

    Development Education Programme, World Bank, 2005
    Absenteeism of teachers and medical personnel is widely cited as a barrier to improvement of education and health outcomes in developing countries, especially in South Asia. But how severe is the problem of absent teachers–and in health care, absent medical personnel?
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    Resource manual on flash flood risk management module 2: non-structural measures

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2008
    Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. They tend to carry with them much higher amounts of debris which can cause damage to hydropower stations, roads, bridges, buildings and other infrastructure.
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    Resource manual on flash flood risk management module 1: community-based management

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2008
    Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, the poor, women and children, are the worst hit. This manual aims to help communities build their capacity to manage flash floods and other disaster risks themselves.
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    Innovative Pro-Poor Healthcare Financing and Delivery Models

    Results for Development Institute, 2009
    In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care.
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    Australia South Asia Research Centre

    Centre dedicated to research on the economics and politics of development in the South Asia region:  India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
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    Strengthening the links between health systems research and policy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Translating the results of research on health systems into policies is rarely straightforward, particularly in low and middle-income countries. The research consortium Future Health Systems: Innovations for Equity has undertaken to plan and conduct focused health systems and policy research in some of the largest low-income countries in the world.
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    Improving provider performance: innovative strategies in Bangladesh, India and Nigeria

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Poor quality and high costs are associated with the informal provision of health care. This has led to a search for innovative strategies to improve performance. New research on interventions in Bangladesh, India and Nigeria provides learning about different ways to achieve this goal.
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    Making health markets work for poor people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    In many countries people use a wide variety of market based providers of health-related goods and services ranging from highly organised and regulated hospitals and specialist doctors to informal health workers and drug sellers operating outside the legal framework. A large share of encounters with health workers and suppliers of pharmaceuticals involves a cash payment.

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