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  Service delivery in a difficult environment: the child-friendly community initiative in Sudan

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report, published by the Department for International Development (DFID), sets out the main findings and conclusions of a study of the UNICEF-sponsored Child-Friendly Community Initiative (CFCI) in Sudan. It examines the effectiveness of an integrated, multi-sectoral and community-driven approach for the delivery of basic services to poor and vulnerable people in a conflict-affected country.
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  Citizens, politicians and providers: the Latin American experience with service delivery reform

  World Bank, 2005

  This report argues that inspite of an increase in primary school enrollment rate, life expectancy and provision of water services, the countries' performance in service delivery has been inadequate, coupled with an inability to eliminate inequalities apparent in many basic indicators.
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  Membership-based organizations as a reflection of power structures in rural communities: experiences and observations from Sindh Province, Pakistan

  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 2005

  This paper explores "community" perspectives within existing traditional structures of a rural village in Pakistan, and queries whether the membership based organisations for the poor (MBOPs) reflect the reality of those that they represent.
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  Membership based organisations for the Poor (MBOPs) and the case of NE Brazil: the rural poverty reduction program

  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 2005

  This paper discusses the origins of Community Driven Development (CDD) in Brazil and compares it to earlier integrated rural development projects. It also sheds some light on the breadth, depth and scale of investments undertaken through the community associations in the region.
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  Working for development in difficult partnerships

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2002

  This report presents the topics covered at a Joint Workshop on "Working for Development in Difficult Partnerships", which took place from 28-29 October 2002, and which was organised by DAC Network on Good Governance and Capacity Development (GOVNET), the World Bank, the European Commission (EC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).This report aimed to set out an agenda for action
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  Nigeria: study of non-state providers of basic services

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004

  This paper looks at the service delivery of health, urban water and education by non-state providers (NSPs) in Nigeria.Each sector study focused on three broad forms of government (or civil society) intervention or action: dialogue between state and non-state actors in deciding and reviewing policy and legislation about standards and regulatory systems; the implementation of interventions to re
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  The design, process and achievements of Zambia's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper reviews progress made by the Zambian Government in implementing the country's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP). It argues that more could have been done to ensure the implementation of the PRSP if there were more funds.
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  Gender-based violence tools manual for assessment, program design, monitoring and evaluation

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  This manual is aimed at improving international and local capacity to address gender-based violence (GBV) in refugee, internally displaced, and post-conflict settings.
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  Building social capital for the ultra poor: challenges and achievements

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2005

  BRAC introduced a programme designed to meet the special needs of the extreme poor called, "Challenging the frontier of poverty reduction: targeting ultra poor (TUP)" programme in 2002. The programme consists of economic and health inputs designed to create sustainable livelihoods. However, it was felt that the assets they received might be vulnerable to theft and damage.
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  Strategies for reducing maternal mortality in developing countries: what can we learn from the history of the industrialized West?

  Tropical Medicine & International Health, 1998

  This paper from Tropical Medicine & International Health notes that after ten years of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries remain similar to those of industrialised countries in the early twentieth century. The authors identify conditions in which industrialised countries reduced maternal mortality over the past 100 years.

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