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    Gender review: mainstreaming gender in the development portfolio of the Norwegian embassy in Ethiopia

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This paper includes a gender review of the Norwegian embassy’s portfolio in Ethiopia on natural resource management and food security. The paper aims at identifying ways and means of addressing and integrating women’s and gender concerns into the current agreements within present framework and budgets.
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    Climate change and indigenous peoples

    Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines, 2008
    This manual has been written to empower indigenous peoples to participate more effectively in shaping relevant policies and actions taken to address issues related to climate change. It also aims to enlighten non-indigenous peoples on indigenous peoples’ experiences and perspectives on climate change.
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    Assessing the environment, forest, and other natural resource aspects of development policy lending

    World Bank, 2008
    How can the environmental impact of World Bank lending be calculated? The Operations Policy on Development Policy Lending (DPL), requires that the World Bank systematically analyses whether specific country policies supported by an operation are likely to have 'significant effects' on the country’s environment, forests, and other natural resources.
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    Why gender matters: a tutorial for water managers

    International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net) [UNDP], 2006
    There are significant gender differences in use, access and management of water. In many cases, gender discrimination can limit the women’s and men’s chances to access vital water resources, by placing restriction in their autonomy. This tutorial is primarily aimed at those people interested in or responsible for managing water resources.
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    The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Southern Africa

    IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2009
    Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in southern Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of this diversity and it is poorly represented within the development planning process.
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    Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2008
    This paper summarises a study undertaken by the Indonesian Forest Climate Alliance (IFCA) to support Indonesian stakeholders to participate in global negotiations.
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    People, protected areas and global change. Participatory conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe

    NCCR North South, 2009
    This book is a synthesis of papers on sustainable conservation in protected areas (PA). It presents a series of papers that provide comprehensive information on 13 PAs: 4 in Latin America, 5 in Africa, 3 in Asia and 1 in Switzerland. The authors note that participation in the protected areas under study was generally better in theory than in perceived practice.
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    Annotated bibliography on socio-economic and ecological impacts of marine protected areas in Pacific Island countries

    The WorldFish Center, 2008
    This paper presents a collection of literature that reports on various forms of reef area management practiced in  the Pacific Islands. The collection provides an overview of impacts, influences and effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs), observed and reported in Pacific Island countries and territories.
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    Values of inland fisheries in the Mekong river basin

    The WorldFish Center, 2007
    Asia has the most productive inland fisheries in the world. The fishery sector contributes significantly to the national economies of the region. Inland fisheries also improve food security by providing a source of protein and a livelihood for millions of people in this part of the world, especially the rural poor.
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    Whose forest tenure reform is it? Lessons from case studies in Vietnam

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
    In Vietnam, forest area under the management of local people has expanded from almost nothing in the early 1990s to nearly 3.5 million hectares (27% of the national forest area) in 2006. This study looks at the extent to which such tenure reform has worked in practice and how it has affected local people’s livelihoods and well being. The study finds that:

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