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    Contracting out health services: broadening coverage, raising quality, lowering cost

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Contracting out public services is a way for governments to complement their own delivery of services. It is particularly effective for high risk or hard-to-reach populations that can be more effectively served by private groups. It can also contribute to more efficient delivery of primary health care (PHC).
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    Meeting sexual and reproductive health needs in post-conflict settings

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Governments and donors are increasingly contracting non-governmental organisations to provide a basic package of health services in post-conflict situations. In Afghanistan and South Sudan, this is now the principal way to deliver primary care services.
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    Taking stock update: Afghan women and girls seven years on

    Womankind, 2008
    Seven years after the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan is still one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. It has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, one of the highest rates of domestic violence and is perhaps the only country where suicide rates are higher among women than men.
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    Second-generation Afghans in Iran: integration, identity and return

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008
    The total number of documented Afghans aged between 15 and 29 years living in Iran is about 33.4 percent of the total population of Afghans in Iran. Broadly speaking, these Afghans may be categorised as “second-generation”, that is, those Afghans born in Iran, or who have spent more than half of their life in Iran.
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    Afghanistan and regional instability: a risk assessment

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2008
    This report examines Afghanistan’s regional challenges. It finds that domestic instability in Pakistan, strains in Pakistan–Afghanistan relations and insecurities associated with the US–Iran stand-off on Iran’s nuclear programme continue to pose the most significant regional risks to the stability of Afghanistan.
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    The changing face of local governance? community development councils in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008
    This working paper presents findings on subnational governance in Afghanistan, including the role that Community Development Councils (CDCs) play at community levels.
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    Humanitarian agenda 2015 - the state of the humanitarian enterprise

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
    Is ‘humanitarianism’ at risk? The humanitarian community is operating in a ‘changing’ environment which is forcing it to question its own notions of inclusivity and grapple with the fundamental issue of impartiality.
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    Factors influencing decisions to use child labour: a case study of poor households in Kabul

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008
    How do households decide whether to put children into work? This case study set in Kabul explores the processes through which poor households make decisions about whether or not to put children into work.
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    Afghan Human Development Report 2007: bridging modernity and tradition: the rule of law and the search for Justice

    Center for Policy and Human Development, 2007
    The central theme of this Human Development Report is that country's judicial system is a first line of defence to many social ills in any democracy, but particularly in war ravaged societies. Institutions such as the courts, police, and the legislature play a critical role in protecting citizens' rights.
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    Moving to the mainstream: integrating gender in Afghanistan’s national policy

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008
    This paper discusses gender mainstreaming in the context of Afghanistan’s national policy. It analyses progress to date, discusses how gender mechanisms such as gender units, and working groups facilitate the implementation of gender policy and suggests ways in which gender mainstreaming in the country’s policy and ministry can be improved.

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