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    Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

    Synergy Project, USAID, 2003
    This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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    Evaluations, strategic planning and log-frames – donor-imposed straitjackets on local NGOs?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Driven by concerns to demonstrate ‘value for money’, bilateral donors and major Northern development agencies are becoming more selective in the types of organisations and activities they will fund and the types of account keeping they demand from recipients. New requirements are forcing small non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in developing countries to change the way they work.
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    Conference news: ageing, development and social protection

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
    The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems.In Session One, participants considered the dynamics and challenges of population ageing in countries experiencing different development trajectories.
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    Background research for 'In The Balance'

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2002
    These papers represent research commissioned to support the development of the Idasa Democracy Index, South Africa.
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    Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they seldom manage to cover their running costs.
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    Report of the South-South dialogue on defence transformation

    SSRonline, 2003
    This report summarises the findings and experiences of a conference that took place in Accra, Ghana, between the 27th and the 30th of May 2003. The objective of the conference was to promote the debate about defense transformation in the context of Ghana, inject local content and transparency, and enhance Ghana’s ability to gain ownership of the process.
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    Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

    Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
    With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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    One step further: responses to HIV/AIDS

    SIDA Studies, 2002
    This collection of articles produced by UNRISD and SIDA enable different authors to address various issues in relation to HIV/AIDS.
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    Where there's a will there's a way: nursing and midwifery champions in HIV/AIDS care in Southern Africa

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    Commissioned by the SADC (Southern African Development Community) AIDS Network of Nurses and Midwives (SANNAM) in collaboration with UNAIDS, this report summarises the results of a month of field research in five countries in Southern Africa – Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia.
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    Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

    UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002
    This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.

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