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    Building a society for all ages

    Building a society for all ages, UK Government, 2009
    UK Government strategy paper to designed to help Britain prepare for our ageing society. The paper highlights the need for a cultural shift, to build a vision of a society for all ages – where people are not defined by their age, and prejudice does not prevent harnessing the skills and experience of the older population.
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    Building a society for all ages, UK Government

    Building a Society for All Ages (launched 2009)  is the UK Government’s strategy of reforms to pensions and health systems for older people.
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    A global view of horizontal inequalities: inequalities experienced by Muslims worldwide

    Microcon, 2009
    Both within and across countries, most attention has been devoted to measuring inequality among individuals (and globally countries). Within countries, increasing evidence shows that inequalities among groups (HIs) are important for wellbeing. However, the global component of HIs are generally neglected.
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    Prison Reform Trust

    The Prison Reform Trust is an independent charity that seeks to:
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    Doing time: the experiences and needs of older people in prison

    Prison Reform Trust, 2009
    Prison staff working with older prisoners require specialist training and support, as the needs of older people can be hard to detect. The increase in numbers of people needing significant health and social care input has created huge challenges for prison, probation, health and social service staff. Despite improvements in this area and pockets of good practice, these needs remain largely unmet.
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    Democratising engagement

    Demos, 2008
    Citizen engagement has become an essential part of modern government. Governments around the world are starting to realise that engaging their citizens more in shaping the decisions that affect their everyday lives improves legitimacy, as well as the quality of public services. This online pamphlet begins by looking at different ways of thinking about engaging citizens in governance.
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    Review of the Embassy’s development assistance portfolio: environment and climate change “greening and climate proofing of the portfolio”

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This paper tries to identify possible ways and means of addressing appropriate climate change and environmental concerns in existing Norwegian programmes and projects in Uganda. For Norway, the priority areas are:
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    Institutional cooperation programme between Hawassa University, Mekelle University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This report is an end-review of an institutional cooperation programme between two Ethiopian universities and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. The development objective of the programme is to enhance the contribution of higher education institutions towards national policy of poverty reduction.
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    What assures consumers in an economic downturn? Reviewing the agenda in the global economic crisis

    AccountAbility, 2009
    This report evaluates the impact of the economic downturn in the UK on consumer attitudes. It asks the question "what assures consumers?" in this economic downturn, and investigates what enables consumers to trust in a business’s honesty, integrity and fairness.
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    Platform for an integrated Africa policy

    Information from the Norwegian Government and the Ministries, 2008
    Although Norway’s relations with sub-Saharan Africa have traditionally been linked to development assistance and missionary work, its cooperation is continually being expanded into other areas. And while the geographical focus of Norway’s engagement in Africa has traditionally been on southern and east Africa, it is now extending its efforts to parts of central and west Africa.

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