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  Getting it wrong? Misunderstanding Afghan livelihoods

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Have aid agencies understood the impact of conflict on livelihoods? Or do they have a pre-determined range of interventions which have little relevance to local realities? Have they grasped the dynamics of conflict in Afghanistan? Are Afghans more resilient than the aid community realises? 
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  Agenda 21 in South Africa: foreign, green and anti-development?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Durban has been at the forefront of South African efforts to honour Agenda 21 commitments made at the 1991 Rio Earth Summit. Has the city turned Agenda 21’s promise of sustainable urban development into reality? What lessons have been learned in overcoming scepticism and building support and consensus among stakeholders?
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  Politics v humanitarianism on the front line – can the UN get its act together?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Are peacekeeping operations incoherent? Has the humanitarian imperative of protecting and saving lives in conflict taken second place to UN peace operations? Has pursuit of the myth of sustainable peace distracted the UN from the more immediate necessity of keeping people alive?
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  Democracy and development: time to put politics back into poverty eradication?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Is there evidence that democracy is needed to sustain economic growth? What are the links between good governance and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)? Could international institutions benefit from an injection of democracy?
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  Enhancing the nutritional quality of relief diets: workshop proceedings

  ProNUTRITION, 1999

  This paper reports on a workshop addressing the issue of nutritional quality of relief foods.
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  From promise to performance: how rich countries can help poor countries help themselves

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2003

  This Brief assesses the progress and potential of the commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.
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  Making the millennium challenge account work for Africa

  Brookings Institution, 2003

  This briefing paper critically assesses the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposed by the Bush administration to increase US resources directed toward the most promising development investments.
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  Food security and emergencies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2003

  This paper addresses the continuing issue of food insecurity in Ethiopia.
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  Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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  Strategic coordination in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002

  The purpose of the study is to identify issues relating to the “strategic coordination” of the international assistance effort for Afghanistan at a relatively early stage in its renewal and expansion.The paper argues that the failure to deploy International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) beyond Kabul may ultimately undermine the most important working assumption of the international assistanc

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