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    Peacemaking in Asia and the Pacific: Women's Participation, Perspectives and Priorities

    Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2011
    Ensuring women's fair representation and diverse contributions to peacemaking remains a major challenge. This publication explores the reasons for women’s under-representation in peace processes, both in terms of their participation and the substantive gender content of agreements.
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    Role of policy and institutions in local adaptation to climate change: case studies on responses to too much and too little water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012
    The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is predicted to be severely affected and socially vulnerable to climate change. This study delves into how political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation strategies to water-related stress and hazards in the context of climate change in India, Pakistan, Nepal and China.
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    Understanding TB-related stigma in Asia - Pakistan 2009

    Department for International Development, UK, 2009
    Stigma is thought by many to be a major barrier to effective TB control in many countries. While it is widely known that TB-related stigma exists, little is known about the forms it takes, why it exists or what can be done about it.
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    District climate and energy plan (DCEP) preparation guideline

    2011
    The DCEP preparation guideline intends to support the DDCs and consultants for preparing the DCEP of the respective districts in Nepal. The Guideline is expected to support the relevant institutions/organisations and individuals to carry out climate change adaptive renewable energy planning and its implementation.
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    Information and Communication Technology for Education in India

    infoDev, 2010
    The main objective of the Survey is to create a consolidated source of information on the experiences of using ICTs for Education in the South Asian region, as a baseline for future work, and to provide a framework of reference for policy-makers.
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    Strengthening local resilience to climate change

    Promoting Local Innovation, 2011
    The challenge of climate change calls for action to assist vulnerable communities to cope and adapt. In keen awareness of this, numerous international CCA initiatives have emerged. Most of them involve large-scale, 'high-tech' infrastructure for physical protection.
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    Caste, Land and Labor Market Imperfections, and Land Productivity in Rural Nepal

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    This paper provides new evidence on the caste-related land productivity differential and its explanations in rural Nepal using household plot panel data. Low-caste households are found to have significantly higher land productivity on their owner-operated plots as compared to high-caste households.
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    Livestock and Land Share Contracts in a Hindu Society

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    This paper examines factors related to the existence of a livestock rental market in western Nepal and assesses whether this is associated with caste differentiation and land rental market participation. This study brings new empirical evidence of livestock rental market against the established view that such market does not exist due to moral hazard.
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    The political economy of climate change and development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Climate change financing initiatives have emerged as a prominent part of international development activities through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and it has become evident that political factors are vital in ensuring that the international initiatives achieve both their climate change and development objectives.
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    Water and energy dynamics in the Greater Himalayan region: opportunities for environmental peacebuilding

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011
    The water crisis in the Greater Himalayas constitutes an enormous challenge for the region and a growing, if still under-reported, concern in the West. Elements of the crisis include floods and droughts, unpredictable changes in the timing of water flows, hydropower rivalries and persistently unsafe drinking water.

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