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    Monitoring Report on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru

    Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2007
    Sexual violence in the Latin American region has been used as state policy and as a strategy for war, aimed at as many victims as possible, in order to create terror amongst the population. CLADEM documents and analyses this phenomena in the Latin American context.
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    Climate Change and Gender Justice

    Oxfam, 2009
    Awareness of the complex and dynamic links between gender relations and climate change is growing fast in gender and development (GAD) circles and among women’s rights activists, but in mainstream policies they still tend to be overlooked. This book offers information and evidence towards a more informed, nuanced gender perspective in the context of climate change.
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    (Re)counting the poor in Peru: a multidimensional approach

    Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru, 2010
    This paper addresses the debate between the recent evolution of monetary poverty figures and the levels of deprivation of the Peruvian population. The paper relies on a multidimensional approach for poverty measurement to measure the tension between the incidence of monetary poverty and the overall level of deprivation in terms of a set of basic attributes for human development.
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    The outlook for agriculture and rural development in the Americas: a perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean

    Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, 2010
    After the revival from the economic crisis of 2008-2009, the fundamental challenge facing Latin America and the Caribbean is how to consolidate the recovery with medium- and long-term economic development. In this respect, this report believes that by basing rural development policies on an integral view of the countryside and agriculture, economic development and recovery can be promoted.
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    UNISDR Briefing Note 2 - Adaptation to climate change by reducing disaster risks: country practices and lessons

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2009
    With the threat of increased disasters from climate change, many countries are already taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to weather and climatic hazards. This Briefing Note reports on case studies of eight countries where national and local governments and civil society have worked to strengthen their disaster risk reduction and adaptation actions.
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    Starting school: who is prepared? Young Lives’ research on children’s transition to first grade in Peru

    Young Lives, 2009
    Literature has pointed to the importance of children’s experiences of preschool and first grade as foundational for success during the subsequent school years. This paper attempts to examine the transition of early childhood in the beginning of primary school.
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    Delivering integrated services to the rural poor: Pro Mujer’s Feria product in Peru

    Pro Mujer, 2010
    Pro Mujer is an organisation in Latin America supporting women with loans, healthcare and training. This is the first of a new series called: Product Innovation Notes, communicating lessons from their New Markets project. This issue reports on the Feria Product.
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    Closing the gender land gap: the effects of land-titling for women in Peru

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2009
    This report explores Peruvian land formalisation law, arguing that it is gender neutral. The paper examines land ownership in Peru from a gender perspective, and introduces the following findings:
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    Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension system. A reform in Peru

    Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, 2010
    Peru created the Private Pension system (SPP) in 1993, without dismantling its old defined benefit system (the National Pension System, SNP).  However, members of the SPP (those who previously belonged to the SNP) realised that the expected or already received benefits in the SPP were lower than those in the SNP.  In order to correct this effects, there have been many costly adjustments
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    Missing in action: teacher and medical provider absence in developing countries

    Development Education Programme, World Bank, 2005
    Absenteeism of teachers and medical personnel is widely cited as a barrier to improvement of education and health outcomes in developing countries, especially in South Asia. But how severe is the problem of absent teachers–and in health care, absent medical personnel?

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