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  Hope: building capacity. Least developed countries meet the HIV/AIDS challenge

  UN Office of the High Representative of the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, 2005

  This paper addresses the development situations of the world's least developed countries, particularly focusing on the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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  Gender mainstreaming for poverty eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Despite decades of gender research and advocacy, policy-makers continue to operate with the notion of the ‘male breadwinner’. Efforts to promote the productivity of the poor are still largely targeted at men while women are perceived in terms of their domestic activities and reproductive roles.
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  Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

  African Labour Research Network, 2004

  This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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  Reactions to the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean

  Eldis News Monitor, 2005

  Weblog containing a collection of news, commentary and analysis looking at the development related impacts and implications of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.
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  Toolkit for mainstreaming gender, environment, poverty reduction, peace and unity and participatory governance

  Philippines-Canada Local Government Support Program, 2003

  This toolkit is designed as a guide to help local government support programmes (LGSP) and their local resource partners representatives to integrate LGSP's four cross-cutting themes into LGSP projects and to build the capacity of local government units (LGUs) to mainstream the cross-cutting themes into their policies, plans and programs.
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  Challenging women's poverty: perspectives on gender and poverty reduction strategies from Nicaragua and Honduras

  Progressio, 2003

  This paper explores the role of gender in World Bank and IMF-implemented poverty reduction strategy papers. The authors conclude that if PRSPs are to succeed, strategies to reduce poverty must consider the basis of gender inequalities in wealth.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  Role of mothers in alleviating child malnutrition: evidence from Sri Lanka

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2003

  This paper begins with the assertion that having a productive workforce depends first on having healthy children, who will grow into workers. The authors argue that Sri Lanka faces a serious problem of malnourished children, which will have knock-on effects for Sri Lanka's growth.
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  Transformative social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), discusses the concept of social protection and the ways in which social protection policy has worked in practice, drawing on examples from Uganda.It claims that social protection has been popularly perceived as “social welfare programmes for poor countries”, consisting of costly targeted transfers to economically inac

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