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    Progress in making urban development sustainable

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    A modern city can only be truly successful if it can demonstrate its commitment to protecting the environment. Officials must recognise the city’s natural assets, create efficient water, energy and transport infrastructure and protect its citizens against the impacts of climate change.
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    Freedom of association in the Euro-Mediterranean region

    Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2007
    Since the September 2001 attacks, many states in the Mediterranean region have been implementing repressive strategies aimed at restricting freedom of association, of assembly and of expression. Human rights violations and denials of justice are common practice along with multiple types of harassment, intimidation, abductions, and violence towards all demonstrations of protest and dissidence.
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    Putting the Mediterranean Union in perspective

    EuroMesco, 2008
    Following the French President, Nicholas Sarkozy’s agenda to promote a Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), this report provides an overview of the different perspectives existing in the main zones of the Euro-Med area. It particularly looks at perspectives from four areas - southern Europe, Germany, North Africa and Israel. Southern European perspective:
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    Land degradation assessment and prevention: selected case studies from the ESCWA region

    Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 2007
    This report looks at possible ways for policy-makers and decision-takers to combat and/or prevent land degradation in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) region, both generally and specifically in the following countries: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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    Egypt’s social contract: the role of civil society: Human Development Report 2008

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2008
    Around the world, governments are recognizing the vital role that civil society plays in the development process and increasingly, civil society, especially think tanks, is being invited to contribute to social policy formulation.
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    Lessons learned on children and young peoples’ participation in development

    Capacity Development Web Site, Canadian International Development Agency, 2007
    To demonstrate the potential for children and young people's participation in its programming, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) launched a series of pilot projects integrating participation of children and young people at different levels of the project cycle.
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    The economic imperatives of marriage: emerging practices and identities among youth in the Middle East

    Middle East Youth Initiative, 2007
    Demographic transition in the Middle East and North African region has led to what has been termed a ‘youth bulge’, with over 50% of the population being under 25. With co-habitation legally and culturally unacceptable, young people often remain dependent on parental support until they can afford to get married.
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    Adapting to climate change in the world’s drylands

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The world's drylands are likely to experience some of the worst impacts of climate change. Temperatures are predicted to increase and rainfall will become scarcer and more erratic. Poor rural people living in drylands will be hit hardest. What strategies exist to reduce their vulnerability to climate change?
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    Maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A few tablets will save lives

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Many lives in sub-Saharan Africa could be saved if women were given a simple course of tablets during pregnancy. The tablets, including iron and calcium supplements and anti-malarial drugs, would prevent a range of diseases which occur in the weeks immediately following childbirth. These diseases, such as anaemia, infection and hypertension, can prove fatal to new mothers.
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    Understanding unemployment in the Arab countries: towards a policy framework

    Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2008
    Unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is currently at a historical high, which may appear puzzling given economic growth in the region.

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