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  Ending legalised violence against children: report for South Asia Regional Consultation

  Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, 2005

  This report reviews law and policy in relation to corporal punishment of children in South Asia.The report shows that children in eight countries in the South Asia region are not fully protected under assault laws, despite the clear international human rights standard that children should be protected equally with adults.
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  Strategic gender interventions and poverty reduction: principles and practice

  Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004

  This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and community.
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  Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

  Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005

  This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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  Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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  On the same side – public-private partnerships in TB control

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Many developing country governments are struggling to control the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. Public-private partnerships are a practical way to increase TB control capacity and improve the quality of private sector care. Researchers from the UK Nuffield Institute for Health propose a process for developing new partnership models, using Bangladesh as an example.
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  Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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  How irrigation can benefit people in South Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Irrigated agriculture can make an important contribution to food security, improved nutrition and rural prosperity. For most rural regions of low-income countries, there are no alternatives to agriculture-led growth. Irrigation can be an effective way of promoting growth and reducing poverty. Whilst competition for water is often fierce, agriculture should not be a low priority.
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  Poverty reduction, decentralization and community-based monitoring systems

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2003

  With a growing emphasis on good governance as a prerequisite to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there has been an accompanying pressure on governments to decentralise. Decentralisation has shifted greater responsibility to local government units to carry out policies and programs, brought with it greater demand for local level data.
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  Poverty in South Asia 2003: civil society perspectives

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequalities in South Asia, and claim that globalisation has generally further increased poverty in the region.
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  Local government initiative: pro-poor infrastructure and service delivery in Asia

  United Nations Capital Development Fund, 2004

  This publication includes a synthesis of case studies that focus on the experiences of innovation in improving Infrastructure and service delivery (ISD) through rural local governments (LGs), and their outcomes, in three Asian countries: Nepal, Bangladesh, and Cambodia and also in Uganda. Bangladesh: Local Governance & Service Delivery to the Poor, which outlines lessons on the scope for

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