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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people, Health, Participation

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  The Progress of Nations Report 1998

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998

  Points out that society has largely overlooked the vulnerabilities of adolescence in developing countries -- and that young people, who make up one sixth of the people on earth, need the support of their elders if they are to fulfil their promise and avoid the inevitable perils that lie ahead.
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  The Impact of Family Planning and Reproductive Health on Women's Lives: A Conceptual Framework

  Family Health International, 1996

  The framework examines women's use and non-use of family planning, their pregnancy and childbearing experiences, their experiences with family planning programs, and their experiences with other reproductive health services. Also, the framework looks at three domains of women's lives: household and family roles, psychological and physical factors, and societal and economic roles.
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  Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia

  Family Health International, 1996

  Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design and delivery of health care, and both offer health care as one of an array of services designed to improve women's quality of life.
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  Immunization: Going the extra mile

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998

  Immunization is the greatest public health success story in history. Between 1980 and 1990, a massive effort raised coverage rates world wide from 5 per cent to 80 per cent. But just as a new generation of vaccines is about to come on the market -- capable of saving millions more children's lives each year, but at much greater cost -- the momentum to sustain immunization is faltering.
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  The Social Consequences of the East Asian Financial Crisis

  Social Crisis in East Asia, World Bank, 1998

  What began as a currency crisis in Thailand has evolved into a social crisis across the region and beyond. Within East Asia it was initially hoped that the crisis would involve a sharp contraction and sharp recovery—a "V"-shaped response to a shock, as occurred in Mexico after the 1994/95 currency crisis.
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  The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.
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  Ethical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998

  Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.
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  Designing by dialogue:A Program Planners’ Guide to Consultative Research for Improving Young Child Feeding

  Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997

  Tools to design, carry out, and analyze the results of formative, consultative research and to use them to design effective programs to improve infant and young child feeding.
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  What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights accountability in support of development action.
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  An Asset-Based Approach to the Analysis of Poverty in Latin America [plus case studies]

  Economic Research and Development Policy in Latin America, IADB Research Department, 1999

  Project argues that poverty in Latin America (or at least the ‘excess poverty’ given the level of income in the region), is a problem caused mainly by high inequality. But income inequality in the region is, to a large extent, a reflection of a very skewed distribution of income-earning assets, human capital being the most important.

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