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    Empty Promises - Gender Scorecard of World Bank-Managed Post-Tsunami Reconstruction in Indonesia

    Gender Action, 2008
    Using documents made available on the World Bank-administered Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDF) website this report reviews how well MDF projects set up in the wake of the 2004 tsunami integrated gender issues in the following essential areas: objectives; components; analysis; participation; and monitoring and evaluation.
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    Is fiscal decentralization conflict abating? Routine violence and district level government in Java, Indonesia

    Microcon, 2008
    It is now widely accepted that the evolution from autocracy towards lasting democracy in developing countries can be associated with increased violence, and even the risk of civil war. This paper examines whether or not there is a link between routine or everyday violence across various districts in the island of Java and the process of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia.
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    Open trading arrangements offer a way forward for global trade

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Negotiating trade liberalisation through the World Trade Organization (WTO) is notoriously difficult. As a result, many countries are pursuing liberalisation among smaller groups. What can be done to ensure that trading arrangements contribute towards a healthy global trading system rather than undermine it?
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    Geographical experiences - Indonesia. Transforming the transforming structures and processes

    Eldis Document Store, 1999
    How can project design bring about institutional reform that better recognises the demands of poor people within a livelihoods context? How can pilot based community policies be scaled up to influence micro-macro links? How valuable is the sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach to understanding the micro-macro links?
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    Clearing the hurdles : steps to improving wages and working conditions in the global sportswear industry.

    Play Fair 2008 Campaign, 2008
    Across the global sportswear industry, workers manufacturing sports apparel, footwear and soccer balls face poor working conditions and substantial violation of rights. This report which brought to focus the sports workers’ problems just before the recent Olympics 2008 is based on interviews with sportswear workers in China, India, Thailand and Indonesia, besides various secondary sources.
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    Reaching the poorest: a strategy to increase skilled delivery in Indonesia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Indonesia recently introduced a programme that provides a trained midwife for every village, in an effort to increase access to professional delivery care among the poorest, particularly rural women. Has this strategy achieved its aim?
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    Development in Practice 8(3)

    Development in Practice, 2008
    The question of what motivates individuals to become engaged in working for the public good is obviously central to the whole range of activities included in the term ‘development’. Yet the spark that ignites such voluntary engagement often seems to be taken for granted.
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    Does switching to agriculture mean a richer diet for hunter-gatherers in Indonesia?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Almost 60 years ago, the Punan people in Borneo, who were traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers, began to cultivate rice while continuing to collect some food from the forest. Now the Indonesian government is giving them incentives to abandon their foraging lifestyle altogether and to leave the forest. What impact has shifting to agriculture had on their diet and health?
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    Local democracy in Asia: representation in decentralized governance – concepts and issues

    United Nations Development Programme, 2006
    This Background Paper is part of a wider UNDP regional initiative that focuses on a number of core issues related to representative systems and local elections. It includes a detailed review of the systems in place in eight countries in South/West Asia, five countries in Southeast Asia and three Pacific region countries.
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    The threat to poor people’s land rights from the biofuels ‘boom’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Biofuel production is expanding worldwide, driven mainly by government targets to replace fossil fuels. Biofuels also provide opportunities for export and rural development. However, there is a growing concern about the negative impacts of biofuels on land access for poor people.

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