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    Recognising diversity: disability and rural livelihoods approaches in India

    Overseas Development Institute, 2001
    How can livelihoods approaches better accommodate diversity in general, and in particular people with disabilities? What specific policy measures would support the livelihoods of people with disabilities? This paper explores how livelihoods-based approaches can improve access by the disabled to resources and entitlements.
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    Changing organisations for watershed management in India: from policy to practice

    Eldis Document Store, 2002
    How does organisational change favourable to sustainable livelihoods policy take place?What factors facilitate or inhibit the policy implementation process?
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    Changing organisations for sustainable livelihoods: a map to guide change

    Eldis Document Store, 2003
    What outcomes does change for sustainable livelihoods aim to achieve? What paths should be taken during the change process? In this booklet Kath Pasteur draws together insights from research on organisational change in India and Bangladesh published separately, providing an overview of issues arising there, and in case study literature from Indonesia, Philippines, and Zimbabwe.
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    Livelihood risk from HIV in semi-arid tropics of rural Andhra Pradesh

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    This paper discusses the livelihood dynamics in the fragile landscape of the semi arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh. The area is home to the poorest of the poor who live in conditions of persistent drought, subsistence agriculture and poor access to markets.
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    HIV/ AIDS and women: a module for women's self help groups

    Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal, UNIFEM, 2006
    This toolkit aims to enable women to explore the issues of HIV/AIDS from the standpoint of personal experiences and to encourage the ownership of the process of engaging with factors which increase their vulnerability to HIV, thereby enhancing the community’s willingness to cope.
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    Micro-pensions in India: critical issues, challenges and strategies for future

    WorldGranny, 2007
    This paper discusses micro-pensions in India with a particular focus on the critical issues, and the current challenges and strategies. It also looks at the role that Micro-finance Institutions (MFIs) play in micro-pensions.
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    Managing assets and vulnerability contexts: vistas of gendered livelihoods of Adivasi women in South India

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
    This paper focuses on the livelihood issues of adivasi or the scheduled tribes in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Examining the gendered vulnerability context of adivasi livelihoods, the author argues that the ability of adivasi livelihood to expand and manage productive assets is gendered. The paper explores how the vulnerability context affects men and women differently.
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    Understanding poverty among the elderly in India: implications for social pension policy

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Cash transfers to the poor elderly as social pensions are one of the most important anti-poverty programmes operating in India today. In 2007, the Government of India announced that changes to eligibility rules would increase the number of beneficiaries from an estimated 8.7 to almost 16 million people or roughly one in five elderly Indians.
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    Rehabilitating degraded land

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people.
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    Disparity, deprivation and discrimination in rural India

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    Despite the good performance of India's economy in recent years, disadvantaged groups such as the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) face both higher incidence and intensity of poverty than other groups.

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