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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers, Food security

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  Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?
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  Repositioning nutrition as central to development: a strategy for large-scale action

  World Bank, 2006

  Malnutrition is a still an extremely serious development issue, with around a third of the developing world’s population - particularly the inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia- suffering from micronutrient deficiencies and below optimal weight.
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  Assessment of the world food security situation

  Committee on World Food Security, FAO, 2005

  Prepared for the Committee on Global Food Security, this 2005 annual FAO assessment document pays special attention to coping with key shocks to food security and the implications for preparedness, responses and mitigation efforts.In particular the report focuses on what it highlights as the main causes of food insecurity: conflicts, natural disasters, plant and animal pests and diseases, HIV/A
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  The pilot social cash transfer scheme: Kalomo District, Zambia

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2005

  This working paper, published by the UK Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), reviews and analyses the Kalomo Pilot Social Cash Transfer Scheme in Zambia. The scheme targeted households suffering critical levels of food poverty and with high dependency ratios (a high number of children or elderly members for each working-age adult in the household).
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  Millennium Project task force on education and gender equality: interim report on achieving the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education

  Millennium Project, 2004

  This report is designed to facilitate consultation with civil society, experts and the international community on the priorities and strategies of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on education for girls, in preparation of the final report to be completed in December 2004.It first discusses the MDGs on education and gender equality, and international data and trends in gen
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  Interim report of Task Force 3 on Education and Gender Equality: executive summary

  Millennium Project, 2004

  This paper summarises the main issues raised by the United Nation's Taskforce on Gender and Equality report.
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  Can Food-for-Work Programmes reduce vulnerability?

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper looks at how, when and why Food for Work (FFW) programmes can reduce vulnerability. Is it most effective as short-term insurance, a longer-term rehabilitation and development intervention, or both? The paper argues for the subjecting FFW transfers to an initial geographic targeting based on the three criteria of food and labour market performance and general morbidity status.
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  Social protection and pro-poor agricultural growth: what scope for synergies?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2004

  Social protection (SP) and livelihood promotion have conventionally been handled by different departments within governments and donor organisations.
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.

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