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  The CAPA handbook: a "how-to" guide for implementing Catchment Area Planning and Action, a community-based child survival approach

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This manual, published by Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival/Nigeria (BASICS II/N), provides guidelines on an approach to improving child survival known as Catchment Area Planning and Action (CAPA).
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  Protecting children during emergencies in Nigeria: a toolkit for trainers

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This training kit is based on learning from a series of training courses developed for NGO and government agency staff on child protection in emergencies in Nigeria.
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  Armed and aimless: armed groups, guns, and human security in the ECOWAS region

  Small Arms Survey, 2005

  This study looks at the armed groups and small arms in the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region. Armed groups in this report are defined as groups that have the capacity to challenge the state’s monopoly of legitimate force.
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  Neither war nor peace

  Children and youth in Organised Armed Violence, 2005

  This study identifies a number of regions affected by children and youth in organised armed violence (COAV), exploring causes and trends of the problem as well as suggesting policy oriented guidelines for policy makers within the international forum for the implementation of practical steps to treat COAV.
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  Youth in war-to-peace transitions: approaches of international organizations

  Berghof Conflict Research, 2005

  This study examines youth in war-to-peace transitions and the response of international organisations to them. It specifically asks what approaches have international organisations developed regarding youth? On which assumptions about youth and their role in violent conflicts are they based?
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  Improving management of childhood malaria in Nigeria and Uganda by improving practices of patent medicine vendors

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This report, produced by Basics II, describes the design, implementation and preliminary results of interventions in Nigeria and Uganda to improve practice and product quality among private providers, or patent medicine vendors (PMV). The two interventions related specifically to child survival strategies and used different strategies for behaviour change.
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  Street children and the juvenile justice system in Lagos state of Nigeria

  Consortium for Street Children, 2004

  This paper is part of a two-year research and advocacy project examining the situation of the human rights abuses of street children in juvenile justice systems in six countries: Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Romania.
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  Comparison of house spraying and insecticide-treated nets for malaria control

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, compares the efficacy of residual house spraying against insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control using data from Africa, Asia and Melanesia. Comparisons of recent initiatives showed that ITNs were at least as effective as house spraying.
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  Child justice in Africa: a guide to good practice

  Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2004

  [File size 97910Kb] This manual presents innovative examples of applied local practices of child justice in Africa. The topics mainly relate to programme delivery, to the expansion of services to children and to integrating human rights practice in criminal justice processes. The manual is aimed at policy makers and non-governmental organizations.
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  Coming to terms with politics and gender: the evolution of an adolescent reproductive health program in Nigeria

  Population Council, USA, 2002

  This case study, published by the Population Council, examines political and gender challenges faced by Action Health, a nongovernmental organisation dedicated to improving the heath and upholding the rights of adolescents in Nigeria.

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