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    Company Codes of Conduct and Workers Rights: Report of an Education and Consultation Programme with Garment Workers in Asia

    2002
    Women Working Worldwide carried out an education and consultation programme with women workers in Asia, in July 1999 and December 2001. Eight organisations in seven different Asian countries undertook to adapt and print educational materials on codes of conduct for use in their own education programmes, as well as programmes of other nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and trade unions.
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    Impact of the tsunami response on local and national capacities

    Tsunami Evaluation Coalition, 2006
    This report is based on fieldwork conducted between mid-September and mid-November 2005 in four of the countries affected by the tsunami – Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Thailand.
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    id21 classic: Redistribution with growth

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    'Redistribution with growth' explores ways in which macroeconomic growth can be combined over time with measures of redistribution to improve employment, reduce poverty and achieve more equitable income distribution.
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    Tough choices: investing in health for development

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2006
    This report is a synthesis of country experiences from three years of work, following the 2001 report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH).
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    Empowering women migrant workers

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005
    This document presents information on UNIFEM’s Regional Programme on Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia which seeks to empower women migrant workers from a gender and rights-based development perspective.
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    The effectiveness of electric fencing in mitigating human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2005
    This study assesses the effectiveness of electric fences in reducing conflict between elephants and humans in Sri Lanka. The study looked at five electric fence projects that have been set up to prevent elephants from straying out of protected wildlife areas into farmers’ fields.
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    Girls' education in South Asia

    Oxfam, 2006
    South Asia has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world.
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    How can universities challenge gender discrimination?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In developing country universities women staff are under-represented in senior teaching and management positions. Enrolment of female undergraduates is increasing but far too few are studying science and technology subjects. Research and action are needed to identify the factors that slow or promote gender equity and identify examples of replicable good practice.
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    Keeping the promise? A study of progress made in implementing the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS in seven countries

    Panos AIDS Programme, 2006
    This report, from the Global AIDS Programme, is the product of seven studies which reviewed the progress being made in implementing the UNGASS (UN General Assembly Special Session) Declaration of Commitment (DoC). The studies were conducted in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, Latvia, Malawi, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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    Is prevention better than cure? Vector control makes a come back

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Vector borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness, account for approximately 17 percent of all infectious disease worldwide. Vector control methods such as insecticide treated bednets and indoor spraying have proved highly effective at disease prevention but currently receive little investment.

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