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  Creating youth-friendly pharmacies

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2005

  This briefing, produced by Family Health International, examines the role of pharmacies in providing reproductive health information and services to youth, especially contraceptives and referrals to services for sexually transmitted infections. It reports evidence from several countries that youth prefer pharmacies to public services as a source of contraceptives and information.
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  Establishing human resource systems for health during postconflict reconstruction

  Management Sciences for Health, 2006

  This paper, from Management Sciences for Health, outlines the Human Resources for Health (HRH) issues during the period of reconstruction in post-conflict countries. The paper draws on examples from Afghanistan and Cambodia. The authors explore the issues of restoring a health workforce and outlines key HRH actions for workforce reconstruction.
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  Illegal logging and forest livelihoods: which way forward for greater justice?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Forest-dependent poor people often struggle to uphold their claims to resources in the face of discriminatory legal frameworks and powerful private forestry companies. Are efforts to enhance governance in the forest sector helping to support poor people in claiming their legal rights, or working to further marginalise their interests?
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  Older persons AIDS knowledge and willingness to provide care in an impoverished nation: evidence from Cambodia

  Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2006

  This paper examines the issue of caregiving among men and women age 60 and older in Cambodia who are being called on to be primary caregivers for their children who contract AIDS. Results indicate that older women are less knowledgeable about AIDS than reproductive aged women but more likely to state a willingness to provide care.
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  Getting to the core: a global survey on the cost of registration and election

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  This document is a step-by-step guide to election processes around the world. It explains what measures need to be in place, from voter registration to ballot-box security, and at what price, before the first ballot is cast.
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  Tough choices: investing in health for development

  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2006

  This report is a synthesis of country experiences from three years of work, following the 2001 report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH).
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  The Mekong challenge: Cambodia’s "beer promotion girls": their recruitment, working conditions and vulnerabilities

  International Labour Organization, 2006

  With the increasing sophistication of consumer marketing, the alcohol and beverage industries in Cambodia and other Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries have found new ways to advertise their competing products through the employment of "beer promotion girls" (BPGs) – attractive young women dressed in the colours and logos of their sponsors.
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  Cambodia blazes a new path to economic growth and job creation

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004

  Using an international policy experiment that has been under way in Cambodia for the last six years, this paper demonstrates how trade agreements can create jobs and improve working conditions, pay, and labour rights.The author argues that some of the benefits from the quota bonus and monitoring experiment in Cambodia include:in 2002, the value of the quota bonus was $56.4 millionab
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  Participatory monitoring: guidelines for practitioners in the fight against human trafficking

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Participatory Monitoring (PM) tools are used as far as possible in the International Labour Organisation's project to combat trafficking in children and women in the Mekong sub-region. This toolkit, based on materials field-tested by project staff, has been designed to help monitor the project's progress, track trafficking and identify good practice.
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  Reshaping education in post-conflict countries

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Conflict can devastate a country’s education system. It reverses efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals for universal completion of primary education, and for gender equality in schools by 2015. At the same time, rebuilding education is increasingly seen as essential to reduce the risk of countries falling back into conflict.

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