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    Ideas for development: reflecting forwards

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    This working paper examines the polarisation of power and wealth in the world. The authors argues that the personal dimension remains central in mediating big issues, but continues to be relatively neglected. Words and concepts used in development have remained potent.
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    Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

    BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004
    This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.
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    Toolkit for mainstreaming gender, environment, poverty reduction, peace and unity and participatory governance

    Philippines-Canada Local Government Support Program, 2003
    This toolkit is designed as a guide to help local government support programmes (LGSP) and their local resource partners representatives to integrate LGSP's four cross-cutting themes into LGSP projects and to build the capacity of local government units (LGUs) to mainstream the cross-cutting themes into their policies, plans and programs.
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    Governing for equity: gender, citizenship and governance

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2003
    This paper summarises the findings of a three year research programme conducted by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam, entitled "Gender, Citizenship and Governance." The programme aimed to develop a range of good practices to effect changes in institutional rules and practices to promote gender equality and enhance citizen participation.
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    Building a new Iraq: women’s role in reconstruction women’s role in strengthening civil society

    Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2003
    This paper summarises the conclusions of a forum on women’s roles in post-conflict Iraq, particularly focusing on women’s roles in civil society, government, economic growth, and security. The authors state that a number of factors will be essential to maximising women’s rights and roles in post-conflict Iraq.
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    Strengthening governance: the role of women in Rwanda's transition

    Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2003
    This paper examines the role and inclusion of women into the transition and post-transition Rwandan governments, following the genocide of the early 1990s.
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    Iraqi Shias after Saddam Hussein: a study in political behaviour

    Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2003
    The US-led coalition has, through its attack on Iraq, presented an opportunity for the Shia community in the country to become involved in the political process for the first time in over eight decades. Shia leaders, most of whom had been closely associated with Iran’s clerical leadership, immediately raised their demands for political control in a new Iraq.
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    Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
    This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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    Democratic decentralization and the issue of inequality

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002
    This paper, written in preparation for the World Resources Institute's meetings in Bellagio, Italy, examines the capacity of democratic decentralisation to promote greater equity.
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    Governance and poverty reduction: evidence from newly decentralized Indonesia

    Support for Decentralisation Measures, Indonesia / Proyek Pendukung Pemantapan Penataan Desentralisasi (P4D), 2004
    This study focuses on the impact of bad governance on the poor and those people who are most vulnerable to the impact of bad governance.By assembling scattered anecdotal evidence on how past and current practices of bad governance in Indonesia have hurt the poor, the study shows that the adverse impact of bad governance on the poor is real, systematically affects many people, and undermines the

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