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    Eldis Interactions: gender-based violence

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    What is gender-based violence (GBV) and what is meant by collective action? What approaches and initiatives have proven successful in tackling GBV? As part of the Eldis Interactions’ Empowerment for Women and Girls website, these questions are answered through this GBV-themed portal detailing research from a selection of African countries.
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    Eldis Interactions: gender-based violence

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    What is gender-based violence (GBV) and what is meant by collective action? What approaches and initiatives have proven successful in tackling GBV? As part of the Eldis Interactions’ Empowerment for Women and Girls website, these questions are answered through this GBV-themed portal detailing research from a selection of African countries.
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    What are the Factors Enabling and Constraining Effective Leaders in Nutrition? A Four Country Study

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Leadership has been identified as a key factor in supporting action on nutrition in countries experiencing a high burden of childhood undernutrition.
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    Invisible helpers - women's views on the contributions of working donkeys, horses and mules to their lives

    2014
    In 2011 there were an estimated 112 million working equine animals in the world, with 43 million donkeys, 11 million mules, and 58 million horses. The large majority of these animals live in developing countries and provide daily support to hundreds of millions of poor households by doing a wide range of work in both urban and rural areas.
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    Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010
    Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing in lower- and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the health and well-being of these ageing populations is important for policy and planning; however, research on ageing and adult health that informs policy predominantly comes from higher-income countries.
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    Payments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor.

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2013
    Payments  for  ecosystem  services (PES)  provide a market based instrument to motivate changes in land use that degrade ecosystem services.
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    Making the urban poor safer: lessons from Nairobi and Maharashtra

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Mumbai and Nairobi have acutely unequal urban development, with respectively 40 per cent and 60 per cent of their urban population living in slums. The most impoverished neighbourhoods are characterised by severe lack of service provision and poor access to employment opportunities.
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    Empowering women through ICTs

    Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions, 2012
    From 2007 up until early 2011 Spider (the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions) supported various gender-focused initiatives that sought to uplift women particularly in the rural regions of the global south. This report offers an analysis of the impact on the lives of the women that participated in the projects.
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    Setting the scene: assessing and planning with harm reduction partners

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2013
    Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is an project spanning China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia that aims to expand coverage to more than 230,000 people who inject drugs, their partners and children, with a wide range of services (HIV prevention, treatment and care, sexual and reproductive health and other services) by 2014.
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    Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013
    Through the analysis of newspaper articles and a survey of journalists, this publication identifies gaps and highlights differences in how the media portray pastoralism in Kenya, China and India.

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