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  Ending legalised violence against children: report for South Asia Regional Consultation

  Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, 2005

  This report reviews law and policy in relation to corporal punishment of children in South Asia.The report shows that children in eight countries in the South Asia region are not fully protected under assault laws, despite the clear international human rights standard that children should be protected equally with adults.
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  Banking the underserved: new opportunities for commercial banks - exploring the business case

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper reports on a study documenting the financial experience of a diverse sample of commercial banks that have opted to expand into microfinance as a new line of business.
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  Policy or process? The politics of international peace implementation

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2004

  This report from an international conference, focuses on peacemaking and peacbuiding in Guatemala, the Middle East, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Bosnia and Kosovo.
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  Bringing Hambantota back to normal

  International Water Management Institute, 2005

  Hambantota, a southern coastal district of Sri Lanka, was affected by the tsunami on 26th December 2004. The district records the third highest poverty incidence and is the poorest coastal district in the country. The livelihoods of the area are diverse, with the main economic activities in the coastal areas comprising of fishing, as well as agriculture, trade and services.
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  Gender, Conflict and Development

  World Bank, 2005

  This book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organised around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal framework, work, the rehabilitation of social services and community-driven development.
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  Forgotten casualties of war: girls in armed conflict

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report addresses the protection issues for children associated with armed groups and, more specifically, to the largely unrecognised protection requirements of girls.
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  Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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  The Sangha and its relation to the peace process in Sri Lanka

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2005

  This paper examines the attitude of Buddhist monks to the current Norwegian-facilitated peace process in Sri Lanka and explores their potential to be peace promoters in the process. In order to do so, the paper presents an overall introduction to Buddhism and politics in Sri Lanka and the deals specifically with monks favouring or opposing the Norwegian-facilitated peace process.
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  Acceptability of the female condom among street based commercial sex workers (csw) in Colombo

  Female Health Company, 2002

  This study, produced by the Community Development Service, examines the acceptability of the female condom among commercial sex workers (CSWs) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The study was based on the experience of 40 peer educators over four weeks. Over 90 per cent of the participants claimed to like the female condom and 70 percent preferred it to the male condom.
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  The regional training programme in design installation, administration and maintenance of network systems (DIAMN)

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  The focus of this report is to provide an evaluation of the regional training programme in design, installation, administration and maintenance of network systems (DIAMN) programme at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). Sida’s department for research cooperation (SAREC) has supported the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) since 1998.

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