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    Community self-mobilisation to end open defecation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).
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    The applicability of the Paris Declaration in fragile and conflict-affected situations

    IDL Group, 2008
    The Paris Declaration sets out an overall framework of agreement and structure of mutual accountability between aid-receiving countries and their development partners to give substance to the consensus model of “country-led” development. This thematic study acts as a contribution to Accra discussions.
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    Women MPs struggle to represent collective gender interests in Afghanistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Women have achieved a sizeable presence in Afghanistan’s new National Assembly. This process of fast-tracking women into positions of power has negatively affected their perceived legitimacy, however. Despite the physical presence of women in the Afghan Parliament, so far, gender issues have rarely been raised.
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    Some notes on the livelihoods of the urban poor in Kabul, Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2004
    How are Kabul’s urban poor combining their assets to make a livelihood? How can their efforts best be supported? This working paper reports on research undertaken in 2003 in preparation for a wider Urban Livelihoods Research Project to be conducted by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU).
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    Power, livelihoods and conflict: case studies in political economy analysis for humanitarian action

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2003
    What analytical tools can humanitarian agencies use to understand complex emergencies? What insights does political economy analysis produce for humanitarian interventions? This report documents the findings of an Overseas Development Institute study of four conflict environments in 2001-2: Afghanistan, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and the Casamance in Senegal.
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    Poor, poorer, poorest: urban livelihoods and vulnerability in Mazar-i-Sharif

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    What are the conditions in which the urban poor in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan make their livelihoods? How and why do livelihood strategies change over time? This AREU publication reports on a case study undertaken in five settlements in Mazar-i-Sharif to complement ongoing long-term research on the changing livelihood strategies of the poor in the cities of Kabul, Jalalabad and Herat.
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    Alternative livelihoods: substance or slogan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
    What roles does opium poppy production play in household livelihoods strategies? What is required to pursue alternative livelihoods effectively as a goal of the counter-narcotics objective in Afghanistan? This AREU Briefing Paper sets out the weakness of the current ‘alternative livelihoods’ response to opium poppy production in Afghanistan.
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    Afghans in Peshawar: migration, settlement and social networks

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    How do Afghans living across the Pakistan border in Peshawar make their livelihoods? How important is cross-border movement to their survival activities? This publication reports on qualitative research conducted as one of three case studies of Afghans living in different parts of Pakistan.
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    Afghanistan. Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Protection: An Initial Assessment

    World Bank, 2005
    What are the parameters of poverty and vulnerability in Afghanistan today? What form should the social protection accompanying growth-oriented policy take?This World Bank report sets out what is known about how livelihoods are constructed in rural Afghanistan, factors of vulnerability, and guidelines for putting in place a growth-oriented development strategy with poverty reduction objectives.
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    Addressing livelihoods in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002
    What are the historical and current livelihood trends in Afghanistan? How can livelihoods issues be addressed more strongly in the policy and programming processes of the reconstruction agenda?

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