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    Child labour as a response to shocks: evidence from Cambodian villages

    Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2007
    The paper analyses the effect of different shocks on household decisions concerning children’s involvement in work and school in rural Cambodia. It examines the differential impact of three different types of shocks using propensity score matching and double difference estimates extended to the case of multiple treatments.
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    Growing old in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin

    HelpAge International, 2007
    This study, undertaken by the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC), attempts to document the situation of the elderly in two communes of Pailin, Cambodia. It seeks to identify background characteristics, livelihood strategies, security, living arrangements and support networks, and to inquire into health and health care conditions. The majority of the elderly persons surveyed were migrants.
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    The Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

    World Bank, 2006
    The costs of programmes to promote gender equality and women's empowerment are not systematically calculated and integrated into country-level budgeting processes, according to the authors of this paper.
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    Promoting Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Asia Pacific - Engaging the Principles of the Paris Declaration

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    In August 2007 representatives from 11 countries in the Asia Pacific region convened to examine the extent to which the guiding principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration have provided opportunities to advance gender equality and development agendas.
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    Primary health care for older people: a participatory study in 5 Asian countries

    HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2008
    This study documents the perceptions of older people, care-givers, and health service providers in terms of knowledge of active and healthy ageing, access and quality of Primary Health Care (PHC) services.  It particularly looks at the increasing experiences of older people in managing stroke and diabetes conditions.
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    The research cooperation for livestock based sustainable farming systems in the Lower Mekong Basin

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2007
    For the past four years, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam have cooperated within animal production research in a regional network, the Research Cooperation for Livestock Based Sustainable Farming Systems in the Lower Mekong Basin (MEKARN). This document presents an evaluation of the effectiveness of (MEKARN).
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    No quick fixes: rebuilding health systems after armed conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    In the late twentieth century, 15 of the 20 poorest countries in the world experienced armed conflict. This has had devastating social and economic impacts, with public health one of the main casualties. Relief efforts provide short-term help but how do countries rebuild their health systems in the long term?
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    Committed to caring: older women and HIV & AIDS in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam

    HelpAge International, 2007
    In numerous Asian countries, many older people assume multiple responsibilities in caring for relatives living with HIV/AIDS. Despite their burden, older carers remain neglected within the response to HIV and AIDS in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. In this paper, the author outlines a number of recommendations for every level of response. These include:
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    Community and school-based health education for dengue control in rural Cambodia: a process evaluation

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2007
    This article, published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, assesses the effectiveness of health education approaches in reducing the incidence of dengue fever in Cambodia.
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    CEDAC and GRET: the history of a partnership - viewpoints and prospects

    Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2007
    Analysing the history of a 10 years partnership between GRET and CEDAC, a French and a Cambodian NGO, working together on rural development issues in Cambodia, this paper highlights numerous lessons on partnership and capacity building.

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