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    Mexican Local Government in Transition, Fleeting Changes or Permanent Transformation?

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
    In recent years, several innovation processes have taken place within Mexican Local Government: in the leadership style of mayors, in social participation mechanisms, in intergovernmental relations, and in public management systems. These changes have led to an improvement in governmental performance and opening up and democratisation of the system of local governance.
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    Where is Local Government Going in Latin America?: a comparative perspective

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
    A major process of decentralisation has been under way in Latin America since the mid-1980s. The reasons for it have been extensively debated. The main features of this process, including greater formal political autonomy for and financial strengthening of local government, as well as the transfer of competencies from central to local government, have also been widely discussed.
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    National social statistical profiles, 1997

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
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    The Progress of Nations Report 1998

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
    Points out that society has largely overlooked the vulnerabilities of adolescence in developing countries -- and that young people, who make up one sixth of the people on earth, need the support of their elders if they are to fulfil their promise and avoid the inevitable perils that lie ahead.
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    The Impact of Family Planning and Reproductive Health on Women's Lives: A Conceptual Framework

    Family Health International, 1996
    The framework examines women's use and non-use of family planning, their pregnancy and childbearing experiences, their experiences with family planning programs, and their experiences with other reproductive health services. Also, the framework looks at three domains of women's lives: household and family roles, psychological and physical factors, and societal and economic roles.
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    Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia

    Family Health International, 1996
    Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design and delivery of health care, and both offer health care as one of an array of services designed to improve women's quality of life.
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    Behavior Change [in relation to AIDS/HIV]: A Summary of Four Major Theories

    Family Health International, 1996
    How does behavior change occur? This question probably has as many answers as there are diverse populations and cultures. Every HIV prevention program, however, is based on those answers -- theories about why people change their behaviors.
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    Immunization: Going the extra mile

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
    Immunization is the greatest public health success story in history. Between 1980 and 1990, a massive effort raised coverage rates world wide from 5 per cent to 80 per cent. But just as a new generation of vaccines is about to come on the market -- capable of saving millions more children's lives each year, but at much greater cost -- the momentum to sustain immunization is faltering.
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    Birth registration: civil rights and league tables

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
    A birth certificate is a child's proof of identity and represents the first acknowledgement of his or her significance to the country. Proof of birth is needed for a number of services, and it offers a degree of legal protection. But too few developing nations take birth registration seriously, and rates vary widely within and between countries.
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    Down-to-earth vision: Community based IT initiatives and social inclusion [in the UK: COMMIT report]

    IBM UK, 1998
    Report is based on research into UK community based IT initiatives, with the purpose of trying to identify factors which might be critical to their more strategic development through policy. The research involved project visits, in-depth interviews, informal interviews, a literature review, and a seminar with practitioners.

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