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    Towards triple impact - toolbox for analysing sustainable ventures in developing countries

    United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2009
    Sustainable ventures are business initiatives and activities that improve human wellbeing and the environment on a profitable basis in ways that are scalable and replicable. They are initiatives on the micro-level, operated by businesses, but also by non-profit or public actors.
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    IASC guidelines on mental health and psychological support in emergency settings

    Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2007
    Armed conflicts and natural disasters cause significant psychological and social suffering to affected populations.
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    Making decentralisation work for development: methodology of the local government performance measurement (LGPM) framework

    World Bank Research, 2008
    Indonesia has been transformed from a highly centralised country into one of the most decentralised countries. Since 2001, local governments (LGs) have become the main drivers of public service delivery, and have had to dramatically expand their capabilities. This paper discusses the local government performance management (LGPM) tool used to measure and track the performance of LGs.
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    Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: a training manual for nurses and midwives

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2008
    This training manual, published by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II (FANTA-2) Project, recognises that nutrition interventions are an important component of comprehensive care and support for people living with HIV (PLHIV). They help to manage symptoms, promote response to treatment and improving functioning and quality of life.
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    Operations manual for delivery of HIV prevention, care and treatment at primary health centres in high-prevalence, resource-constrained settings: edition 1 for fieldtesting and country adaptation

    World Health Organization, 2008
    This operations manual, published by the World Health Organization, provides guidance on planning and delivering HIV prevention, care, and treatment services at health centres in countries with high HIV prevalence. It provides an operational framework to ensure that HIV services can be provided in an integrated, efficient and quality-assured manner.
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    Reducing HIV stigma and gender based violence: toolkit for health care providers in India

    Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal, UNIFEM, 2007
    This toolkit, published by the International Center for Research on Women, is a collection of participatory educational exercises for educating health care providers on the issues of stigma and gender-based violence. It is designed to facilitate open discussion on HIV stigma and gender violence, and on what health workers can do to promote a change in attitude and practice.
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    Impact evaluations and development

    Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation, 2009
    Many development interventions appear to leave no trace of sustained positive change after they have been terminated and it is hard to deternine the extent to which interventions are making a difference.
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    Special issue of Emerging Themes in Epidemiology on survey issues

    Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2007
    This special issue of Emerging Themes in Epidemiology is entirely devoted to survey methods in certain 'difficult' settings, such as emergencies, remote regions without easily available sampling frames, hidden and vulnerable population groups, urban slums and populations living under strong political pressure.
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    Analysing disrupted health sectors - Manual

    World Health Organization, 2009
    Providing health services in fragile states and conflict affected settings is a challenge. This manual, published by the World Health Organization, provides guidance to analysts of troubled health sectors, in countries on the verge of an economic, political and/or military catastrophe, protracted crises and situations of transition from disaster to recovery.
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    Building livelihoods: a field manual for practitioners in humanitarian settings

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2009
    Although necessary, emergency relief can only fulfil a limited role. For those that are forced to rely on humanitarian assistance for long periods aid must be provided for displaced persons to garner skills, training and economic opportunities in order to establish sustainable livelihoods.

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