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  The gender face of energy

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2005

  This manual is designed to support training of development planners and project managers to increase their capacity to bring gender aspects of energy into the planning cycle.
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  The SouthSouthNorth sustainable development appraisal and ranking matrix tool

  SouthSouthNorth, 2005

  This SouthSouthNorth matrix tool can be used to appraise sustainable development of Clean Development Mechanism project activities under the Kyoto Protocol. It has been designed with project developers and host country governments in mind, as a means of appraising and rating projects at the time of project design and approval.
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  Supporting indigenous land rights in Latin America

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  As political systems in Latin America become more democratic, traditional land rights systems are returning to the forefront of political agendas. By comparing experiences across the region, it may be possible to form coherent policies to assist the returning of land to indigenous populations.
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  Including disabled people in water and sanitation initiatives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The link between disability and poverty is clear: two thirds of the world’s disabled people live in low-income communities, with most in rural areas. Water and sanitation facilities are considered basic needs and are central to global development. Yet programmes and service providers continue to ignore the needs of disabled people.
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  Radio broadcasting for better health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Radio programmes can help communities to access useful health information, promote behavioural change and widen access to health services. But what kind of information is useful? How can donors encourage community radio while assisting national broadcasters to fulfil a public service role? Can Internet and email be used to support better health broadcasting?
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  id21 viewpoint - Getting to grips with development in rural China

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The pace of China's rise as a global superpower often amazes visitors, with cities seeming to transform themselves overnight. However, this is only one side of modern China: most rural areas remain overwhelmingly poor. While urban development is undoubtedly important, the development of rural China is a far greater challenge.
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  Farmers and plant breeders: an essential partnership for poverty reduction

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Farmers understand seeds and crop varieties, knowing how and when to use them. They are often willing to try out new varieties, but often plant breeding systems and the new seeds they produce do not reach farmers. In particular, resource-poor farmers in marginal areas rarely benefit from new high-yielding varieties.
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  Seclusion and exclusion of women from agriculture in south Niger

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Drought, environmental degradation and population growth cause land scarcity amongst farming communities. Communities have responded by changing traditional patterns of land ownership and distribution. However, in densely populated Maradi region of south Niger, these changes reduce women’s rights to ownership of agricultural land, excluding them from agricultural activities.
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  Water resources as a source of conflicts in Central Asia

  The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, 2003

  This paper analyses the problem of water resource sharing in Central Asia.
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  Gender and energy for sustainable development: a toolkit and resource guide

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2004

  This toolkit and resource guide is designed to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements as well as other types of development programmes.The guide outlines the linkages between gender and energy in the context of sustainable development and provides suggestions and materials on how to

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