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    The time is right! Devolution of funding decisions to designated national/regional climate change funding entities

    Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2009
    This comment discusses the need to devolve funding decisions to national (or, if more appropriate, regional) designated funding entities. It is about the rationale for devolving funding decisions to the recipients, as well as the need for joined-up decision-making at the recipient end.
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    The state of local governance and public services in decentralized Indonesia

    SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2008
    Decentralization has been implemented in Indonesia since 2001. Many efforts to improve it have been supported by international and bilateral donor agencies. The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) is one of the initiatives that aim to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the governance and decentralization policy.
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    The real story behind the numbers: the impacts of the global economic crisis 2008–2009 on Indonesia’s women workers

    Oxfam, 2010
    This preliminary study aims to uncover the impacts of the Global Economic Crisis 2008–2009 (GEC) on Indonesian women, especially on those who have been working in the industrial zones. The study confirms that the crisis affects men and women differently, within the current regime of industrial relations and the social construct of gender relations.
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    Women paying the price: the impact of the global financial crisis on women in Southeast Asia

    Oxfam, 2010
    This report analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on women in five Southeast Asian countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The research aims to provide critical recommendations to policy makers in the aforementioned countries.
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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    The nature of Southeast Asian security challenges

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2005
    This paper argues that there is a convergence of security challenges among Southeast Asian countries, although differences in scope and approaches remain. The paper underscores that Southeast Asia is increasingly confronted with non-conventional security risks, emanating from international terrorism and organised crime, separatism, irregular migration and economic crisis.
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    Worldwide guide to trade unions and works councils

    Baker and McKenzie, 2010
    This book looks at the current state of works councils and trade unions for 33 countries around the world. Topics include: collective bargaining unfair labour practices trade union employee protections rights employee collective representatives the labour regulatory regime
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    Lost presence and presents: how parental death affects children

    Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, 2004
    This paper investigates the effects of parental death and disability on investments in children's human capital using panel data sets from Indonesia and Mexico. The results in this analysis suggest that parental loss does, in fact, reduce children’s health and education. This general result holds true in both countries.
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    Midwifery provision in two districts in Indonesia: how well are rural areas served?

    Health Policy and Planning, 2007
    Attention has focused recently on the importance of adequate and equitable provision of health personnel to raise levels of skilled attendance at delivery and thereby reduce maternal mortality.
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    Missing in action: teacher and medical provider absence in developing countries

    Development Education Programme, World Bank, 2005
    Absenteeism of teachers and medical personnel is widely cited as a barrier to improvement of education and health outcomes in developing countries, especially in South Asia. But how severe is the problem of absent teachers–and in health care, absent medical personnel?

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