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    Potentials and limits of community-based service delivery in post-conflict situations

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In countries emerging from conflict, there is often urgent need to provide health, education, water and sanitation services. In the absence of a strong and effective state, aid agencies increasingly rely on community-based approaches (CBA). However it is necessary to recognise the limits of CBA in the larger context of state building objectives.
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    Grassroots efforts to prevent and resolve violence

    World Vision, 2005
    This report considers World Vision's grassroots peace building activities.
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    Trade reforms needed for global peace

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    States such as Afghanistan, Angola and Sierra Leone have been damaged by years of civil war. Increasing international trade, levying international taxes to fund environmental protection and global justice, abolishing agricultural subsidies in rich countries and increasing aid, may help many such countries to recover.
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    What role do women take in Sierra Leone’s water management?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    There are abundant water resources in Sierra Leone but the introduction of ‘western’ approaches to management has led to unfair access and control over water, particularly in mining regions. This creates major challenges to securing water rights for everybody in the country.
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    The call for tough arms controls -voices from Sierra Leone

    Oxfam, 2006
    As part of a series of briefing notes on arms control, this note brings together a number of case studies and stories of the impact of arms trade on people in Sierra Leone.
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    International pressure can transform warlords into peacelords

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The international community is becoming increasingly involved in conflict resolution. However, local leaders who play a vital role in ensuring that the end of one conflict is not the beginning of another, have been largely ignored. Academics and policymakers need to understand how to influence local leaders positively, in order to build lasting peace.
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    Stealing the future: corruption in the classroom

    Transparency International, 2005
    This report presents ten studies carried out in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia.
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    Disability, poverty, and schooling in developing countries: results from 11 household surveys

    World Bank, 2005
    This paper analyses the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their household, and their school participation.
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    Using local seed systems for agricultural disaster recovery

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    In areas affected by disasters such as drought and war, recovering agricultural activity quickly is vital to household food security. Relief seed aid, which replaces seeds lost during disasters, is important to ensure that farmers have adequate quantities of quality seeds of the right variety for the planting season following a disaster.
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    Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.

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