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  What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights accountability in support of development action.
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  A Multi-stakeholder approach to sustainable catchment management

  Participatory Research and Adaptive Natural Resource Management, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, 1998

  The Whaingaroa Catchment Management Project (WCMP) represents the first formal attempt in New Zealand at establishing community-based, integrated environmental management on a catchment scale.A participatory, goal-free evaluation process was used to document the effects of the project on the target participants and to assess the extent to which actual participant needs are being met by the proj
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  Poverty trends and voices of the poor

  PovertyNet, World Bank, 2001

  Discusses new estimates of the extent of global income poverty and new evidence on social indicators by economic group, and reports on the finding of a major study on what poverty means to the poor.The article shows that poor people describe four pervasive and systemic problems that affect their lives adversely almost everywhere: corruption, violence, powerlessness, and insecure livelihood.
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  An Asset-Based Approach to the Analysis of Poverty in Latin America [plus case studies]

  Economic Research and Development Policy in Latin America, IADB Research Department, 1999

  Project argues that poverty in Latin America (or at least the ‘excess poverty’ given the level of income in the region), is a problem caused mainly by high inequality. But income inequality in the region is, to a large extent, a reflection of a very skewed distribution of income-earning assets, human capital being the most important.
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  Women in Development Operating Policy, IADB

  1987

  Intended as a further step in reinforcing Bank-supported, beneficiary-oriented policies and projects. It recognizes that development is a process that must fully involve both men and women. It endeavors to identify key areas and the means by which women's more active participation and greater access to benefits could be enhanced.
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  Korea: a new look at the fertility transition: its impact on women

  Family Health International, 1998

  In 1962, the Government of South Korea established a national family planning policy designed to curb population growth. The two-child family became the norm, and total fertility fell from 6.0 children per woman in 1960 to 1.6 children per woman in 1990. At the same time, the country's economy prospered.
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  Family Planning and Women’s Empowerment: Challenges for the Indonesian Family

  Family Health International, 1997

  In Indonesia, the total fertility rate declined from 5.6 children per family in 1967-70 to 2.85 children in 1994. Dramatic increases in contraceptive use, spurred by economic growth and the government of Indonesia's family planning program, are credited for this decline. Indonesia's family planning program promotes smaller families as a means to improve family welfare.
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  The Consequences of Family Planning for Women’ s Quality of Life [in Zimbabwe]

  Family Health International, 1998

  Explores cultural constructions of quality of life in an effort to understand women’s and men’s views on how fertility, and how women’s participation or nonparticipation in activities inside and outside the household, may negatively or positively influence the quality of their lives. In 13 focus group discussions with women and three groups with men, inves
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  Impact of Family Planning on Women’s Participation in the Development Process [in Zimbabwe]

  Family Health International, 1998

  Examines the question of how family planning use may affect the ability of women to participate in the development process.
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  Networking and rural development through sustainable forest management: frameworks for pluralistic approaches

  Unasylva, FAO, 1998

  An examination of attempts to build social capital (networks built on relationships of trust) for rural development through sustainable forest management.

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