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    New knowledge on children and young people: a synthesis of evidence - summary paper

    Impact Initiative, 2015
    Improving children and young people’s (CYP) wellbeing, and recognising the role they can play in creating a more sustainable world will be critical to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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    Caste and care: is Indian healthcare delivery system favourable for Dalits?

    Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India, 2015
    The development literature in the recent past has brought out the stark differences in the social and economic status of Dalits and Adivasis as compared to other social groups in India. Most of these studies tended to focus on the correlates of group identity, material deprivation and poverty of these groups to their development deficit.
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    Pushed aside: displaced for "development" in India

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2016
    By providing a first-hand account of development projects and business activities that have caused displacement across India, this report documents and analyses the scale, process and impacts of this phenomenon.
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    To farm or not to farm? Indian farmers in transition

    Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, 2016
    Few studies of agrarian transition examine what farmers themselves feel about farming. Are they cultivating out of choice or a lack of options? What distinguishes farmers who like farming from t hose who do not: their personal and household characteristics and endowments? The local ecology and regional economy? Or a mix of these and other factors?
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    Aligning social protection and climate resilience: a case study of WBCIS and MGNREGA in Rajasthan

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2016
    Social protection and climate change programmes are two public policy responses that governments use to address the challenges of poverty, climate vulnerability and gender inequality.
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    Costs of non-cooperation in South Asia: an illustration and way forward

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    The South Asian economic integration has remained afflicted with a narrative that is more often than not a negative one. As a part of this, the arguments put forth include the assertion that the region lacks in trade complementarities due to similarities in production structures.
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    Workshop proceedings on adaptation to climate change in the Upper Ganga Basin

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2016
    The HI-AWARE Academy, organised from 27 February-4 March 2016, in order to strengthen the expertise of researchers and students associated with Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE), culminated in the “Adaptation to Climate Change in the Upper Ganga Basin”, a day-long workshop that was jointly ho
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    Understanding the water security in peri-urban Hyderabad 2015-2017

    SaciWATERs / The South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, 2016
    The southern Indian city of Hyderabad has seen unprecedented growth and is an emerging megacity. Some processes in its rapid urbanisation and development have had serious repercussions and are proving to be a threat to the city and its environs.
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    Household food security in the face of climate change in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region

    2016
    This study attempts to understand local people’s perceptions of climate change, its impacts on agriculture and household food security, and local adaptation strategies in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, using data from 8083 households (HHs) from four river sub-basins (SBs), i.e.
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    Peri-urban water security: an agenda for water governance

    Water Security in Peri-Urban South Asia, 2013
    Water governance needs to mainstream peri­-urban water security.  As cities grow, policy makers and planners focus onmeeting the needs of  urban populations. This happens at the expense of the peri-urban and the rural. For instance, it is very common to divert physical flows of water from villages to cities.

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