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  Community-Based Biodiversity Management South Asia Programme (CBM-SA) Mid-Term Evaluation Report

  2012

  The Community-Based Management of Biodiversity programme is funded by the Norwegian NGO Development Fund in South Asia and coordinated by LI-BIRD in Nepal.
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  A toolkit for integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia

  United Nations Development Programme, 2012

  This comprehensive toolkit, jointly produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Asia Pacific Secretariat, seeks to provide strategies for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia.
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  Services trade agreement in South Asia: contours and modalities

  South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009

  The services sector is the largest productive sector in all the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) economies (except Afghanistan), accounting for more than half of domestic output and an even larger share in economic growth..
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  Information for climate change adaptation: lessons and needs in South Asia

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012

  Good information is essential to making wise decisions in a changing climate. However, uncertainty of climate change impacts and the complexity associated with climate vulnerability, alongside other issues, make the adaptation information agenda unclear.
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  Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012

  Since the beginning of international climate change negotiations, civil society has worked alongside governments in shaping global agreements and keeping an eye on the implementation (and sometimes the lack of implementation) of these agreements. This report is the first joint product of the Southern Voices capacity building programme.
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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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  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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  Report of the review meeting: gender and citizenship in the information society

  IT for Change, 2011

  The Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society (CITIGEN) research programme, launched in 2010, aims to explore the notion of marginalised women's citizenship as a normative project or an aspiration for equitable social membership contained in the promise of an emerging techno-social order.
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  Pensions at a glance

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012

  In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD member countries and non-member Asia/Pacific countries and economies.
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  Disaster Risk Reduction. A review of DRR work by DEC Member Agencies in response to the 2004 Tsunami

  Reliefweb, 2010

  This review report from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) examines whether its vision of a more long-lasting impact had been achieved in terms of strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected population’s resilience to future environmental shocks and disasters in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. Its purpose is to inform future disaster responses by identifying lessons learnt.

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