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  Water for Production: an Overview of the Main Issues and Collection of Supporting Resources

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  Water is fundamental to the well being of women and men both in the household and productive activities and is key to poverty reduction and development. Water is also a strategic resource in that its control is a source of power. Interventions that change the control, use of and access to water resources inevitably raise gender issues and opportunities.
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  Politics, science and shrimp farming – whose ‘objectivity’ counts?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Shrimp farming is a major industry in many developing countries, providing important foreign exchange and offering potential for economic development, particularly in rural areas. However, since the early 1990s, researchers, activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been protesting about its environmental and social impacts.
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  Towards evolving a rights-based participatory monitoring tool for sustainable human development and reduction of vulnerability of street children in urban South Asia

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper aims to develop a participatory monitoring framework for the reduction of vulnerability of urban street children in South Asia, drawing from the principles of rights-based approaches, sustainable livelihoods approaches, empowerment and capabilities approaches.
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  Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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  Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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  Looking for a quick fix: how weak social auditing is keeping workers in sweatshops

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2005

  This report argues that social audits as they are currently carried out often fail to deliver as a tool for checking working conditions in facilities producing garments and sports shoes.
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  Contradicting commitments: how the achievement of Education For All is being undermined by the International Monetary Fund

  ActionAid International, 2005

  This paper intends to demonstrate the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) role in constraining countries from increasing public expenditure in education to meet the Education For All (EFA) goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Beyond access: transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education

  Oxfam, 2005

  This book focuses on transforming policy and practice to promote equitable processes in education, in response to the need for equality, quality, and justice for all.
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  Basic services for the poorest

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This Powerpoint presentation, produced by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, explores the issues surrounding basic services for the severely poor (those who are far below a poverty line) and the chronically poor (those below a poverty line for all or much of their lives).
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  Women, political parties and social movements in South Asia

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This UNRISD occasional paper - addressing issues regarding women, parties and movements in South Asia - was written for the preparation of the report, ‘Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world’.

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