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  Lessons learnt from new initiatives in forest management for bio-diversity enrichment, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods: case studies from India, China, Nepal and Laos

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper draws lessons from indigenous perspectives of forest communities in India, China and Nepal which are involved in relatively new initiatives in local forest management for over-arching goals such as enrichment of bio-diversity, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods.
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  Poverty and conservation: landscapes, people and power

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  This book focuses on conservation’s potential to contribute actively to long-term sustainable development and, more immediately, to poverty reduction. Conservation has, at times, contributed to local poverty by denying poor people control over and access to the natural resources that underpin their livelihoods.
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  A framework for scaling up poverty reduction, with illustrations from South Asia

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2005

  This paper develops a framework for thinking about the policy challenge of scaling up small scale interventions - both governmental and non-governmental - that address poverty reduction. The framework sees scaling up as addressing different components of market failure, government failure and civil society failure.
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  Targeting livelihoods evidence

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This manual draws on real experience from Uganda to provide advice to forestry planners and managers on how to go about raising the profile of forestry at the level of national government. This involves "marketing" forestry: customising the product and building a chain of relationships to help get the new product to customers.
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  Inclusion and exclusion in South Asia: the role of religion

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This paper, presented for the 2004 Human Development Report, argues that the building of inclusive societies requires the secularity of states. All other forms of state are exclusionary, particularly theocracies.
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  Dependency and humanitarian relief: a critical analysis

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2005

  This study explores what "dependency" means in a humanitarian context, how it is used and the implications this has for how relief is provided.
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  Livelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  Contrary to the popular belief that rural and urban areas are essentially separate entities, this papers examines the important links that exist between the two. Despite the many potential benefits, the importance of local and regional urban centres to rural livelihoods remains largely under-researched.
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  School feeding programs: why they should be scaled up now

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2004

  This brief discusses the effectiveness of school feeding programmes, how they address constraints to education, and how they can be scaled up.The paper argues that in-school feeding reduces short-term hunger; they provide micronutrient-fortified meals early in the school day; food can be used in several ways to address access issues; it can address health and nutrition needs of school-age child
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  Emerging trends in urban livelihoods

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005

  This paper is part of a larger research project that aims to identify indicators of upward or downward movements in the continuum of poverty in Afghanistan, and to isolate characteristics and determinants that shape and differentiate various situations of the urban poor in Afghanistan.
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  Caste discrimination and the private sector

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005

  This report outlines the main arguments and issues raised in the seminar entitled ‘Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia’ held in 2004 in London. The seminar raised a number of important issues in relation to caste discrimination and foreign investment in South Asia.

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