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    Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Executive Summaries from Country Reports

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
    The primary objective of the Norwegian Government’s climate policy is to help establish a global, binding, long-term post-2012 regime that will ensure cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions sufficient to limit global temperature rise to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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    Handbook on Gender in Parliament (Indonesia)

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    Indonesia has a strong commitment towards gender mainstreaming, as committed in the Human Development Goals and Beijing Declaration. It enables the Indonesian Parliament to have more women representatives in the various House bodies. This book illustrates the meaning of a gender perspective and the reason why it is important.
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    Local perspectives on REDD

    2011
    This paper presents the perspectives of stakeholders on REDD+ through several scientific publications and policy briefs citing case studies from Indonesia. It notes that local perspectives on REDD+ tend to differ from those at the international negotiation tables.
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    Aceh Free Pasung: Releasing the mentally ill from physical restraint

    International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2011
    This article describes the Aceh Free Pasung programme, which is an important mental health and human rights initiative. It can serve to inform similar efforts in other parts of Indonesia and other low and middle-income countries where restraint and confinement of the mentally ill is receiving insufficient attention.
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    Recent changes in human resources for health and health facilities at the district level in Indonesia: evidence from 3 districts in Java

    Human Resources for Health, 2011
    There is continuing discussion in Indonesia about the need for improved information on human resources for health at the district level where programs are actually delivered. This is particularly the case after a central government decision to offer doctors, nurses and midwives on contract the chance to convert to permanent civil service status.
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    Hot spots of confusion: contested policies and competing carbon claims in the peatlands of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

    ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, 2011
    Central Kalimantan has been selected as the primary REDD+ pilot in Indonesia. In its peatlands expectations of payments for carbon emission reduction currently shape the discourse over natural resource management as a means of influencing policy and exercising power. Different types of actors use their own interpretation of history, facts, rules and norms to support their claims.
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    Waiting for the water to come? Poverty reduction in times of global climate change

    Care Climate Change Information Centre, 2009
    This report aims to provide an overview of the state of the debate on poverty reduction in the face of climate change. The authors have investigated the links between poverty and climate change in practice and examined the issues in the light of a case study in Indonesia.
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    Women tough it out in post-disaster situations

    Southeast Asian Press Alliance, 2010
    Women are known to bear the brunt of disasters. No sooner after a calamity hits does their workload increase significantly as their traditional role of being caregivers is stretched to accommodate the heightened needs of others. Yet all too often, the women’s own needs are overlooked, leading them to suffer at the very least high levels of stress.
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    Developing Countries' Trade Vulnerabilities to EU Climate Policies

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011
    The European Union (EU) aims to take a lead in combating climate change and, as such, experiences a higher intensity of carbon leakage and competitiveness concerns. The EU is, however, an important export market for many developing countries, and BCAs implemented by the EU could therefore have a large impact on these countries.
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    Skills for Green Jobs: A Global View

    International Labour Organization, 2011
    This volume examines the experiences of 21 developed and developing countries in adjusting their training provision to meet the new demands of a greener economy. It shows that skills development is critical to unlocking the employment potential of green growth, yet skills shortages are becoming an obstacle in realising this potential.

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