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    Actualising the right to education: participatory civil society-led approaches to educational interventions for girl child labourers in India: the road ahead

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    This paper analyses the role of civil society in advocating for the adoption of the Bill on the Right to Education in India. The author argues that recent successes in civil society mobilisation could form a good basis to implementing the right to education with the active collaboration and participation of the Indian government.
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    Disease control programs and health sector reform in India: the non-intersecting paths?

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2003
    India reports one of the largest burdens of major diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria. Disease control programs have had varied success, prompting a critical evaluation and re-launching of many national level disease control programs in the 1990s. This coincided with the launch of reforms of the public health care sector by many state governments.
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    Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

    UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002
    This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.
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    Targeting food insecure households: an Indian experiment

    Eldis Document Store, 2003
    This paper presents an alternative, participatory approach to the identification of food insecure households at the community level. This approach is introduced as a response to the different food assistance schemes currently implemented by the Government of India, which show a lacklustre performance due to inappropriate targeting.
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    Social forestry in south Asia: myths and realities

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003
    The present study draws on research and field experience in social forestry in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka since the mid 90s. It focuses on some of the major issues in relation to popular thinking about the theory of social forestry development in South Asia, including deforestation, community participation and appropriate forest policy.
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    Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2003
    This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems.
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    Needles and sex - understanding HIV in Russia, China and India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The future of the HIV pandemic will be hugely influenced by the populous countries of China, India and Russia. Can we predict what will happen to the HIV epidemics in these countries? By what means does HIV infection most commonly occur in these countries and what can be done to prevent it?
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    Stuck in a cul-de-sac: is Indo–Pakistan obstinacy sinking the SAARC?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Since its formation in 1985, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has failed to boost economic growth and collective self-reliance. Will the fraught relationship on which SAARC hinges – that of Pakistan and India – ever improve? Is it time for member states to admit that SAARC cannot be saved and to boost trade and trust by other means?
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    Distant memory – new dementia test allows international comparisons

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    It is difficult to diagnose dementia in societies with limited education. So comparison of levels of the condition in different countries may not be valid. A study involving the UK Institute of Psychiatry aimed to develop and assess a culturally and educationally unbiased test for dementia.
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    Supporting the urban poor to become development actors: a Thai experience

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can local institutions contribute to urban poverty reduction? Can housing and loan schemes strengthen community organisations and boost their capacity to negotiate with urban authorities? Can community savings and credit activities power a community’s own holistic development and empower them to gradually erode the causes of poverty?

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