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    UN-water global annual assessment of sanitation and drinking-water: 2008 pilot report: testing a new reporting approach

    World Health Organization, 2008
    This paper presents a new approach to reporting on progress in the sanitation and drinking-water sectors that aims to strengthen evidence-based policy making towards and beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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    Participatory water monitoring: a guide for preventing and managing conflict

    The Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, 2008
    Participatory monitoring is one established and accepted way for the public to make informed decisions. Through the collection of data that is credible to multiple parties, participatory monitoring can become an essential instrument for generating trust.
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    Constructed wetlands: a promising wastewater treatment system for small localities. Experiences from Latin America

    UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, 2008
    Concentrating on experiences with constructed wetland schemes in Central and South America, this report provides an overview of how constructed wetlands serve as natural wastewater treatment systems.
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    Water and conflict: making water delivery conflict-sensitive in Uganda

    Saferworld, 2008
    Water projects have, arguably, the greatest potential to create conflict in development programmes. Not only is water central to health, sanitation and agrarian livelihoods but it can contribute to other conflict dynamics such as land or grazing rights.
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    Eldis Environment Resource Guide

    Resource guide on Eldis website covering global environmental issues. Guide includes links to full-text online documents and directory of related web sites, events and job announcements.
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    The Advocacy Sourcebook

    Wateraid, 2007
    Over 1.1 billion people around the world do not have access to safe water and over 2.6 billion do not have access to safe sanitation. This sourcebook provides guidance for users in drawing up advocacy action plans that aim to improve the water supply and sanitation situation of the poorest people in the countries where they work.
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    The status of rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007
    Poverty in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) is mainly a rural phenomenon. Almost half (48%) the area’s population lives in rural areas. This report focuses on key rural poverty issues in 13 diverse countries in the region, without attempting to propose policy or programme actions at national or local levels.
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    Practical approaches to transboundary water benefit sharing

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2008
    The emergence and maintenance of transboundary water management regimes rests on a complex web of inter-related factors that define incentives for cooperation. This paper considers practical mechanisms towards an operationalisation of benefit sharing in transboundary water by focusing on steps for putting the concept into practice and the lessons learned from existing cooperative efforts.
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    Saving water: from field to fork. Curbing losses and wastage in the food chain

    Stockholm International Water Institute, 2008
    Agriculture is the largest human use of water. Clearly, agricultural practices need to be targeted to reduce wastage of water. This has been the centre of attention for water saving practices for some years. But there are additional ways to save water. Food consumers and businesses have a key role.
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    Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region (RiPPLE)

    Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region (RiPPLE) is a five-year Research Programme Consortium (RPC) led by the Overseas Development Institute and its partners.

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