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  Immediate results as an entry point for community participation

  Yme, 2003

  This paper reports on immediate results as an entry point for community participation, based on water supply, sanitation and hygiene behaviour field experience in Africa.Highlights of the paper include:the understanding of needs and potential solutions is the driving force to improve water and sanitation installationsmore difficult issues such as sanitation and personal hygiene are
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  Evaluation of CESAR’s activities in the Middle East funded by Norway

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2004

  This report presents the outcome of an evaluation of activities in the Middle East by the Centre for Environmental Studies and Resource Management (CESAR).
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  Child labour in the tea sector in Malawi: a pilot study

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2003

  This report provides an overview of exisiting knowledge of child labour practices in the Malawi tea sector and explores the needs and priorities for further research.The findings of the paper include:there is clear evidence that child labour does exist in the tea sector in Malawi, contrary to the opinion of the Tea Association of Malawi and the most dominant tea sector owner in Malawi
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  Strategic framework: Angola 2003-2005

  Information from the Norwegian Government and the Ministries, 2003

  This paper reviews Norway’s relations with Angola from a number of angles, including foreign policy, development policy and private sector policy.
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  Crafting interdisciplinary in teaching management of natural resources and sustainable agriculture: experiences from the M.Sc. programme in management of natural resources and sustainable agriculture, NLH

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This paper discusses the challenges of designing and implementing an educational programme where interdisciplinarity is an important ambition.Recommendations of the paper include:to focus on both theoretical and practical experience-based skills in working with interdisciplinarityto increase and professionalise the use of problem based learning, where students have to take responsib
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  Creating livelihoods under stress: some examples from India

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002

  This report details the process of creating and managing livelihoods under stress in India, through three case studies.
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  Growth, development and land-use in a simple agrarian economy with endogenous population

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  This paper analyses the relation between demographic transformation, agricultural transformation and land-use pressure within a simple agrarian economy, where population is treated both as a cause and consequence of economic changes.Conclusions of the paper include:population growth and food production are interrelated through two production activitiesagricultural land and labour ar
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  Participatory biodiversity conservation in the South Asia region : proceedings of Regional Networking Seminar and Second General Assembly : February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2001

  This report documents the keynote presentations of the South Asian Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Forum in February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal.The themes of the working papers include:participatory biodiversity conservation in the traditional farming systems of Kerala, southern Indiabiodiversity resource management in Bangladesh with special emphasis on ricelandscape biodiv
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  Should developing countries take on binding commitments in a climate agreements?

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2003

  This paper analyses the costs and benefits obtained when developing countries take on binding emission constraints in order to take part in emissions trading in a future climate agreement.Highlights of the paper include:developing countries could obtain substantial welfare improvements by making the transition from the Clean Development Mechanism to emissions tradingindustrialised c
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  Local government finances and financial management in Tanzania: analyses of data from six councils, 2000-2003

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This report presents and analyses data on finances and financial management in six councils in Tanzania, from 2000-2003.

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