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    Topic guide: conflict, climate and environment

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    This Topic Guide outlines the importance and complexity of the links between conflict, climate and environment. The Topic Guide focuses on violent conflict at the sub-national, national and trans-boundary level in relation to natural resources, climate variability, climate change and environmental change. Key messages are outlined as:
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    Rapid desk-based study: Understanding the relative strength of climate signals compared to other expected development results

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    This rapid desk-based study provides evidence for understanding the relative strength of climate signals compared to other expected development results. The report summarises overall findings in a ‘traffic light’ rating (red, amber, green) and sets out some of the contested nature of findings. It also summarises the evidence to understand climate signals as drivers of development.
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    Community engagement in health service delivery

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2011
    What evidence is there to show that community participation and accountability in health service delivery leads to improved access to quality health services, improved health outcomes, increased government ownership/responsibility, and more stable peace-building efforts? This Health and Education Advice and Resource Team report examines these questions.
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    Evidence of the contribution to stabilisation of transport infrastructure

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    Transport infrastructure is central to the growth and development of a country and a crucial element in improving the quality of life of citizens. Infrastructure acts as the mainstay of growth and social wellbeing – boosting employment, reducing the high costs of accessing markets, providing ways of accessing isolated communities, and ensuring the provision of basic services.
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    Resource scarcity and the environment: evidence review and research gap analysis

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This study focuses on the issue of resource scarcity and how it affects the environment and environmental resources as well as growth and poverty in developing countries. The study’s main geographical scope is Sub-Saharan Africa and South, although other locations are considered in case they provide information transferrable to other contexts.
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    The shadow economy in conflict-affected countries

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2013
    Targeting the shadow economy in conflict-affected contexts is a complex task about which little is known. This rapid literature review uncovered little focusing on interventions aimed at incentivising war profiteers to join the legal economy and even less on leveraging the positive social function that shadow economies can provide to conflict-affected populations.
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    Violence against women and girls in Timor-Leste

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
    The high prevalence of gender-based violence, particularly domestic violence, in Timor-Leste is considered to be a key challenge for the country. There is recognition that incidents of intimate partner violence and family violence have been increasing significantly. A recent study has found that (2009-2010) approximately 38 per cent women aged 15-49 have experienced physical violence.
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    Does election monitoring reduce election-related violence?

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
    This report addresses the links between election monitoring, voter education and election-related violence. It finds little generalisable evidence to show that election monitoring or voter education consistently lead to a reduction in levels of election-related violence.
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    Conflict and Stabilisation in Mali and the Sahel region: GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2013
    This report covers factors including: Islamist terrorism; criminal networks and trafficking (of arms, drugs, cigarettes, and vehicles); and Tuareg rebellions against the Malian government. It also considers state weakness, including the weakness of state security structures in the north, and the role of neighbouring countries, ECOWAS, the AU and other international actors.
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    Conflict and sexual and domestic violence against women

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2009
    In this document the author seeks to respond to the critical question: Conflict has often been associated with rape. Has conflict inevitably been associated with increases in violence against women (including domestic violence)?

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