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    Weathering the storm: participatory risk assessment for informal settlements

    PreventionWeb, 2008
    Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range of municipal and development professionals and practitioners. It is also relevant to professionals involved in housing, social development, health, adult education, CBOs and NGOs.
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    Using social protection to address vulnerability and foster citizenship in Pakistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    The World Bank’s understanding of vulnerability and social protection programmes is highly influential. Yet not all vulnerability can be assessed in terms of income and consumption flows that fluctuate with adverse events. The root causes of vulnerability may be found in unequal social relations that create chronic uncertainty for marginalised groups.
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    Making politics work to reduce extreme forms of poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    There is a growing recognition of the importance of politics in shaping poverty reduction efforts in developing countries. But current development thinking and practice may be failing the poorest groups. What forms of politics lead to successful pro-poor policies?
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    What the Cuban revolution means to older Cubans

    Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 2009
    This paper discusses what the Cuban Revolution means to older Cubans and how it has changed their lives.
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    Azerbaijan progresses towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals

    United Nations Development Group, 2005
    Azerbaijan launched the ”State Programme on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development” (SPPRED) in 2003 in order to reduce poverty and improve living standards of its citizens. The SPPRED sets out concrete policy actions in order to achieve these aims. Later the Government of Azerbaijan aligned SPPRED with the process of implementing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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    Eliminating world poverty: building our common future - consultation paper

    Department for International Development, UK, 2009
    This background paper for the DFID annual conference  "Securing our Common Future: a conference on the future of international development" (9-10 March 2009, London)  reaffirms commitments and reviews priorities.
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    The governance of nature and the nature of governance: policy that works for biodiversity and livelihoods

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This report is an output of IIED’s collaborative research project “Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction” and is based on a literature review and three country case studies (India, Peru and Tanzania).
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    Speaking out: how the voices of poor people are shaping the future

    Oxfam, 2009
    This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation  in policy making and accountability. Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby for changes in their situation include:
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    The challenge of hunger: the 2008 Global Hunger Index

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households, hunger and malnutrition are back in the headlines. Some regions have made significant headway in combating hunger and malnutrition, but in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Global Hunger Index (GHI) remains high.
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    Political economy of development and poverty in Africa: an overview

    INSouth, 2008
    What causes the continued endemic poverty in Africa - a continent rich with natural resources? This paper also argues for a historical materialist approach, which exposes the condition of widespread routine poverty, unemployment, malnutrition and inequality to be a modern world-historical product, the outcome of five centuries of global capitalist expansion under relations of imperialism.

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