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    Values and meanings of citizenship

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what ‘inclusive’ citizenship means?
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    Designing social funds for government decentralisation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Social funds and decentralised government are two distinct phenomena which are spreading rapidly throughout the developing world. The burning question is: can social funds, which have emerged in most countries as a highly centralised model, adapt to decentralised environments?
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    European aid to strengthen governance, democracy and human rights

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The European Union is committed to promote democracy, good governance and human rights while furthering sustainable development and poverty eradication. This requires specific interventions and making this agenda an essential part every project and programme, and in political dialogue.
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    A legacy of harm: Occidental petroleum in indigenous territory in the Peruvian Amazon

    EarthRights International, 2007
    This paper investigates the actions of the Los-Angeles based company, Occidental petroleum (Oxy) which have led to contamination in the Peruvian Amazon. It particularly focuses on the human rights and environmental abuses that have resulted from Oxy’s behaviour.
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    Revitalizando los idiomas indígenas

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    En los últimos 30 años ha habido un florecimiento en los enfoques de la educación para y por los pueblos indígenas. Donde hay programas bilingües e interculturales o multiculturales para pueblos indígenas, los estudiantes indígenas han alcanzado tasas más altas de rendimiento y de permanencia.
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    School and community perspectives on literacy in multigrade schools in Peru

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    A high percentage of primary school children in Peru attend multigrade schools. Although teachers receive little training or support, they develop different strategies to cope with multigrade teaching. What are these strategies and what other important factors could be taken into account to enhance learning in this classroom environment?
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    Good intentions do not prevent conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    When we speak of the international community we think of states, the United Nations, development agencies, or non-government organisations. Yet other groups and individuals are often as relevant to development: multinational and local companies and private security firms.
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    Revitaliser les langues indigènes

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Durant les 30 dernières années de nouvelles approches éducatives ont fleuri, destinées aux populations indigènes et initiées par elles. Là où il existe des programmes bilingues, interculturels ou multiculturels pour les populations indigènes, les élèves issus de ces populations ont atteint de meilleures performances et des taux de scolarité plus élevés.
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    Report on the regional workshop on harmonization and alignment for Latin America and the Caribbean: exercising leadership to accelerate change

    OECD Development Centre, 2006
    This document reports on a 2006 workshop held in Santa Cruz to discuss the implementation of the Paris Declaration commitments on harmonisation and alignment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    Can transgenic seeds repeat the success of the ‘Green Revolution’?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    New technology and crop varieties reduced poverty in much of Asia and Latin America, and some parts of Africa, during the Green Revolution. However, from 1985 this progress slowed. Can new research into transgenic crops revive poverty reduction through agricultural technology?

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