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  Population and health dynamics in Nairobi’s informal settlements

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2002

  This report documents demographic characteristics of health conditions of the slum residents of Nairobi City, Kenya, based on a representative sample survey of informal settlement residents carried out during February–June 2000.
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  Basic service provision for the urban poor: the experience of development workshop in Angola

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002

  This paper describes water and sanitation programmes that have been developed in Angola over a 15 year period, designed with community organisations, local government, and the official water and sanitation agencies.
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  Urban poverty and health in developing countries: household and neighborhood effects

  Population Council, USA, 2004

  This paper investigates whether the health of women and young children within developing country cities, is influenced by household and neighborhood standards of living.Using data from the urban samples of 85 Demographic and Health Surveys, and modeling living standards, the authors find that:the neighborhoods of poor households are more heterogeneous than is often asserted, and that as
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  Understanding linkages between urban poverty, livelihoods and natural resources

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  How are the conditions in which the urban poor live affected by changes in rural economies? How do policies targeted at rural populations indirectly affect urbanites? Can pro-poor urban policies be developed which take into account the importance of natural resources to the urban poor?
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  Dar es Salaam: urban livelihood security assessment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This profile reports on an assessment by IFPRI and CARE of a number of impoverished neighbourhoods in Dar es Salaam towards the ultimate goal of targeting assistance to the poor more efficiently.
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  Ghana: the Accra urban food and nutrition study

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on an IFPRI analysis of urban food and nutrition security in Accra, conducted with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana and the WHO.The main goal of the research project was to determine how the strategies employed by the urban poor to secure their livelihoods affect households’ food security, the care of children, and their resulting health and nutrit
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  Working women in an urban setting: traders, vendors, and food security in Accra

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999

  Despite lower incomes and additional demands on their time as housewives and mothers, female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households.
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  Healthy cities, healthy children

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999

  Economic development has brought comfort and convenience to many people in the industrialized world, but in its wake are pollution, new health problems, blighted urban landscapes and social isolation. Growing numbers of the dispossessed are also being left on the sidelines as the disparity between rich and poor grows.

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