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    Can migrant remittances help rebuild conflict-affected states?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    An important component of peace-building is maintenance of livelihoods during conflict and to ensure sustainable post-conflict recovery. The role of private individual support to war-torn communities is little researched and poorly understood by those who plan peace-building programmes and post-conflict assistance strategies.
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    Free, quality education for every Afghan child

    Oxfam, 2006
    Despite a 500 per cent increase in enrolments in the last six years, more than half of the children in Afghanistan still do not go to school.
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    Development in a drugs environment

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Many illicit drug growers are poor, vulnerable to unfair laws and arrangements and exploited by criminals and corrupt officials. However, many development programmes still ignore their plight. How can policymakers and practitioners help these forgotten people?
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    Tackling drugs to reduce poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The United Nations Office of Drug Control claimed in 2006 that 'Drug control is working and the world drug problem is being contained'. Yet the scale and diversity of the illicit global drug trade has increased in the last decade, as have rates of drug use in most countries.
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    Reducing drug demand in Afghanistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    After 25 years of conflict and displacement, many Afghans now use a wide range of drugs, including alcohol, opium and tranquillisers, to cope with the stress of daily life.
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    Performance based partnership agreements for the reconstruction of the health system in Afghanistan

    Development in Practice, 2005
    This paper, published in the Lancet, explores the effects of privatisation and contracting out of health services. It focuses on Performance-based Partnership Agreements (PPAs) - a system used in Afghanistan to sub-contract the delivery of health services to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), where payments are tied to performance and measured against indicators.
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    Contracting out health services in fragile states

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2006
    This paper, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, discusses the benefits and challenges to contracting out health services to NGOs (non-governmental organisations) in fragile states. Fragile states are defined as countries affected by conflict, emerging from conflict, or otherwise lacking the will or capacity to implement pro-poor policies.
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    Understanding maternal mortality: achieving the fifth Millennium Development Goal

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The poorest women in the world have a one-in-six lifetime risk of dying due to pregnancy or childbirth, compared with one in 30,000 in Sweden. If progress is to be made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015, we need to understand who is dying, when, where and why.
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    Putting the cart before the horse?: privatisation and economic reform in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    This report discusses the privatisation of Afghanistan’s state owned enterprises (SOEs).
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    Dealing with spoilers in peace processes

    2006
    This report discusses the outcomes of a workshop on how to deal with ”spoilers” in peace negotiations.

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