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  Going to scale with education reform: India's district primary education program, 1995 - 1999

  Global Education Reform [World Bank], 2001

  This article discusses the sucess of a federally launched initiative within the education system in India (District Primary Education Program (DPEP)). It seeks to understand how this success has been achieved.The author points to seven specific aspects of DPEP's design and implementation that have been behind this success:strong focus on student learing.
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  Telecenters for socioeconomic and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean

  2001

  Examines some of the main telecentre experiments in Latin America (especially Central America and the Caribbean). Survey results provide a characterisation of users; help identify the main uses of cabinas and their needs; and perceived notions as to the quality of service received.
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  Community participation in traditional irrigation scheme rehabilitation projects in Tanzania: report of a collaborative research project

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2001

  This research article looks at how participatory methods can be used in projects to rehabilitate tradtional irrigation schemes in Tanzania.
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  Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change

  World Bank, 2001

  This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.
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  Agricultural biotechnology research capacity in four developing countries

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1999

  Paper reports on ISNAR biotechnology research indicator survey of four national agricultural research systems (Mexico, Kenya, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe) aimed at providing an overview of their agricultural biotechnology research capacities.
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  A gender perspective for conflict management

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2000

  This paper aims to draw attention to a variety of strategies aimed at increasing the involvement of women in decision-making processes during peacekeeping missions and reconstruction. The paper looks at women's roles in the process of conflict management, preventive diplomacy and peace-building.
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  FAO People's Participation Programme

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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  Decentralising Aid and its Management in Uganda: Lessons for Capacity-building at the Local Level

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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  GIS technology transfer : an ecological approach : final report

  Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1996

  The GIS technology transfer approach described here addresses the issue of sustainable technology transfer in a development setting. It was prompted by a growing discontent within the development community, and the Bureau for Africa, USAID in particular, with the high cost and inconsistent results of GIS technology transfer projects in the area of environmental management.
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  Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995

  This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.

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