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  Meta-analysis to assess impact of watershed program and people’s participation

  Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, IWMI, 2005

  Watershed programs are recognized as a potential engine for agricultural growth and development in fragile and marginally rain-fed areas.
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  Putting energy at the heart of poverty reduction

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  A quarter of humanity still lacks access to electricity. 2.4 billion people use biomass – wood, dung and crop waste – for their basic energy need, cooking. Market-driven and supply-led approaches to providing energy are failing to reach poor people.
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  Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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  Rising up in response: women's rights activism in conflict

  Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, 2005

  Women's human rights activists make up the bulk of the frontline human rights and humanitarian response to armed conflict. They mobilise, individually and collectively, to address the urgent needs of conflict-affected populations, before, during and after the fighting. Yet their work is often invisible.
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  Post-tsunami North and East Sri Lanka swindlers hold sway

  Point Pedro Institute of Development, Sri Lanka, 2005

  The Tsunami that struck several Asian countries in December 2004 has left in its wake untold misery among the coastal population of Sri Lanka. Compounding the situation is the impact of the aid operation that is supposedly aimed at helping the coastal population of Sri Lanka to re-settle and rebuild.
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  Economic imperative for peace in Sri Lanka

  Point Pedro Institute of Development, Sri Lanka, 2005

  The economic effects of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka are multifarious.
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  BRIDGE Report 42: Global Trade Expansion and Liberalisation: Gender Issues and Impacts

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Do women work more or less when countries trade more? Do trade expansion and economic liberalisation affect women and men in different ways'? Case studies from Ghana, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Jamaica are used in this report to illustrate some of the gender dimensions relating to trade.
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  Curriculum change and social cohesion in conflict-affected societies

  International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 2003

  This is a report from the colloquium on "Curriculum Change and Social Cohesion in Conflict-affected Societies" held in Geneva, April 2003. It documents curriculum policy reform in societies that are emerging from, or that have emerged from, civil strife. Seven case study contexts are presented, focusing on questions of social cohesion in their illustration and analysis of policy reform.
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  Locating the poor: spatially disaggregated poverty maps for Sri Lanka

  International Water Management Institute, 2005

  Sri Lanka has, historically, placed a high value on basic human needs. This has involved directing assistance to the rural areas to promote food security and employment, and assuring that the poor have access to primary health care and basic education. This policy has resulted in a high level of achievements in some areas of human well-being such as education and health.
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  Education participation in Sri Lanka: why all are not in school

  Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka, 2004

  Despite legislation making education for 5 – 14 year olds compulsory, only 93 % of children in this age group are in school in Sri Lanka.

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