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    Success for water cooperative in Bolivia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Many now agree there is no single model for providing a good water supply and sanitation services. Private sector participation has not attracted as much private investment as was once hoped for. Evidence from Bolivia indicates that cooperatives may provide an alternative way to meet the water and sanitation needs of poor urban communities.
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    Creating youth-friendly pharmacies

    YouthNet, Family Health International, 2005
    This briefing, produced by Family Health International, examines the role of pharmacies in providing reproductive health information and services to youth, especially contraceptives and referrals to services for sexually transmitted infections. It reports evidence from several countries that youth prefer pharmacies to public services as a source of contraceptives and information.
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    Competition and microfinance interest rates

    Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 2006
    This briefing note asks: "Does competition result in lower interest rates to microcredit customers?" The question is set against the fact that, despite the assumed logic that interest rates on microloans would fall with increased competition, in some countries where microfinance is considered competitive, interest rates have remained stubbornly high.
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    Adapting to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    For many years, scientists have been predicting the impact of climate change. In Latin America and the Caribbean, predictions range from water shortages to an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events. The effects of climate change could significantly reduce the ability of ecosystems to operate properly, threatening development projects throughout the region.
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    The Noel Kempff Project in Bolivia: Gender, Power and Decision-making in Climate Mitigation

    Routledge, 2002
    Since the United Nations Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997 and set legally-binding targets for signatories to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions; forest cultivation has been promoted as an important means to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. There has, however, been limited success.
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    Are donors offering the right support for basic education?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    As education sector funders develop new patterns of collaboration they are re-directing support to education ministries or national budgets. Donor focus on formal primary education has been at the expense of support to adult literacy and other out-of-school programmes. Coordination among funding agencies may have led to neglect of national and local needs.
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    Poverty among women in Latin America: feminisation or over-representation?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    The concept of the feminisation of poverty (the extent and multi-faceted impacts of poverty on women) has become widely accepted among women's advocates. This paper questions the usefulness of resources invested in policies based on this concept.The prime objective of the paper is to investigate the occurrence of this feminisation.
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    Non-timber forest products: important for people in peri-urban areas

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are an important source of income for rural people. However, NTFPs can also generate income for poor people living in urban and peri-urban areas. This opportunity is often overlooked.
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    Attitudes of Catholics on Reproductive Rights, Church-State, and Related Issues: Three National Surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico

    2003
    Nationally and internationally, the opinions of Catholics on the role of the church in their lives, varies. The report, prepared for Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), outlines key issues in which the opinions of Catholics in Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico has differed from that of the Vatican, focussing on reproductive rights.
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    Gender Mainstreaming or just More Male-Streaming? Experiences of Popular Participation in Bolivia.

    Routledge, 2005
    The Law of Popular Participation (LPP) in Bolivia can be seen as the first significant attempt by policy makers in the region to mainstream gender into a national development initiative. It aims to increase the prominence of women in local political and development spheres and is the first Bolivian law to be explicitly couched in gendered terms.

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