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  Into good hands: progress reports from the field (a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004)

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This booklet, a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004, documents research and interventions to improve skilled care at birth throughout the developing world.
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  Lives on hold: the human cost of statelessness

  Refugees International, 2005

  This report looks at the issues faced by individuals who have no citizenship or effective nationality, documenting its impact for individuals, with particular emphasis on groups in Bangladesh, Estonia and the United Arab Emirates.
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  Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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  Women: still the key to food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This brief discusses its research findings emphasising that empowering women is the key to ensuring food and nutrition security in the developing world.
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  Impactos amplios de las Microfinanzas

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  La mayoría de las IMFs buscan promover el negocio de sus clientes y por lo tanto elevar los ingresos de los clientes. Algunas IMFs también invierten en servicios dirigidos a alcanzar impactos sociales directos a través de la concientización sobre temas de salud, incentivando la educación de los niños, promoviendo el empoderamiento de las mujeres dentro de los hogares y demás.
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  Building social capital for the ultra poor: challenges and achievements

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2005

  BRAC introduced a programme designed to meet the special needs of the extreme poor called, "Challenging the frontier of poverty reduction: targeting ultra poor (TUP)" programme in 2002. The programme consists of economic and health inputs designed to create sustainable livelihoods. However, it was felt that the assets they received might be vulnerable to theft and damage.
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  The reality of integrating gender into transport policies and projects

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Donor agencies and national governments have increasingly expressed their commitment to promoting gender equality in all areas of their work. This has included efforts to integrate gender into the work of the transport sector. However, a substantial gap between rhetoric and practice exists.
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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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  Bangladesh: inequalities in utilization of maternal health care services: evidence from Matlab

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2004

  This Health, Nutrition and Population Family discussion paper investigates the equity implications of introducing a facility-based maternity care strategy in rural Bangladesh. The study examines the extent to which poorer women in the community used emergency obstetric care (EOC) services and what the factors were in determining the use of these services.
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  The Voice-responsiveness framework: creating political space for the extreme poor

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This paper from the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) in Bangladesh argues that the very poor must be empowered to actively participate in political processes if they are to get the reforms and services they need.

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