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  Reviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.
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  Back to work: how people are recovering their livelihoods 12 months after the tsunami

  Oxfam, 2005

  In light of the fact that it is a year since the devastating Tsunami that hit communities in coastal areas of the Indian Ocean, this report is intended both as a reminder of the disaster and those who died, but also as an indication of progress made in restoring and improving the livelihoods of tsunami-affected people.
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  Social protection of the elderly in Swaziland

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This study investigates the vulnerability of the elderly in Swaziland and highlights the extent to which selected programmes respond to the needs of the elderly.The findings of the research reveal that:in the absence of adequate pension, most of the elderly rely on farming and in times of drought, they become vulnerable to hunger.
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  Reducing social exclusion through the mechanism of social assistance

  Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and the Economics Institute, Prague, 2003

  Could social stability be assured in Albania after the successful structural reforms and the resulting macroeconomic stabilisation achieved recently in the country? Will the continuing increase in the gap between rich and poor come to a stop? How does the currently operating social protection system contribute to restriction of the dramatically high rates of poverty observed in Albania?
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  Food security and livelihood survey in the central highlands of rural Angola

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2005

  The central highlands of Angola is home to most of the formerly displaced/recently returned populations of the recently abated civil war, and is also one of the most vulnerable and food insecure areas in the country.
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  Ending child poverty and securing child rights: the role of social protection

  Plan, 2005

  This paper examines social protection interventions and how these relate to child rights. It specifically looks at social protection and child rights in relation to cash transfers, in-kind transfers, and microfinance.The author argues that social protection instruments, and in particular, cash transfers, have enormous potential to reduce child poverty.
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  Making cash count: lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effectiveness, accuracy of targeting, delivery modalities, institutionalisation and potential for scaling up.
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  Subsidy or self-respect? Community led total sanitation: an update on recent developments

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper is an updated version of an IDS working paper focusing on processes of Community Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS - an approach which facilitates a process of empowering local communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines without the support of any external hardware subsidy.
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  A mountain to climb: what needs to be done to prevent further deaths following the Pakistan earthquake and to enable survivors to rebuild their lives and livelihoods

  Oxfam, 2005

  This Oxfam briefing note discusses the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir. The authors assess humanitarian responses in the six weeks since the disaster and argue that these have been inadequate and lacking in organisation.The document highlights how the relief operation is now achieving real results, however resources and funding need to be urgently and substantially increased.
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  The state of food insecurity in the world, 2005

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  The FAO food insecurity report of 2005 focuses on the critical importance of hunger reduction, which is the explicit target of the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) and of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1) which calls for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger.

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