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    Community action - mobilising NGOs and CBOs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Health systems are under-funded and overburdened in many developing countries. Non-governmental and community-based organisations (NGOs/CBOs), individuals and families are key providers of HIV treatment and care. The need for treatment is rising as increasing numbers of people become infected.
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    In defence of landlords: getting rental housing onto the policy agenda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is housing policy uni-dimensional? Has the focus on encouraging home ownership and the simplistic depiction of landlords as exploitative accumulators of capital obscured the need to encourage the rental housing market? What can be done to ensure the availability of a healthy mix of tenures while preventing monopolistic forms of landlordism and guaranteeing rental housing standards?
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    Decentralisation: not necessarily always a good thing?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Decentralisation is in vogue and not just in multi-party democracies. Military dictatorships, one-party states and even authoritarian monarchies have signed up. Amidst this enthusiasm, is there empirical evidence that decentralised regimes are more likely to be pro-poor, responsive and transparent? Have decentralisation and democratisation been naively conflated?
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    Seasonal migration, social change and migrants’ rights

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The state of West Bengal is dependent on migrant workers for rice cultivation. But who are these migrants? Where are they from? Why do they migrate? Examining the scale and pattern of seasonal migration, the study also asks: what social protection is provided for the people involved?
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    Bigger AND better? Expanding community action on HIV/AIDS

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Slowing the spread of HIV and coping with the consequences of AIDS are major challenges for many developing countries. There are now many examples of successful small-scale responses to the disease. Could these strategies work for a larger population? How can non- governmental or community-based organisations (NGOs/CBOs) broaden the impact of their programmes?
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    Community-based rehabilitation is coming to town in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is the best way to provide services for people with disabilities in India's expanding cities? Is the model of community-based rehabilitation (CBR), developed in rural situations, appropriate in the urban context? How can policy-makers evaluate the quality of existing medical rehabilitation services?
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    Health policy in action: the World Bank in South Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The World Bank has transformed its public image in recent years and now plays a leading role in international health. How effective is the Bank's strategy in practice? The British Medical Journal investigated its response to the different health challenges in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
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    To school or not to school? School enrolment in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Most villages in India have a government primary school and yet a third of India’s kids do not go to school. Is the prevalence of child labour to blame? Policymakers, keen to find a single causal factor which will get them off the hook, blame parental indifference. Are parents put off by the low quality and/or the cost of schooling?
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    What it means to be gay - homosexuality and HIV in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does homosexuality vary around the world? Do different patterns of homosexual behaviour demand new approaches to HIV prevention? Research from the UK University of Plymouth and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands considers the sexual behaviour of men in India and asks whether the standard approach to fighting HIV can be effective in this setting.
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    What are condoms used for? Insights from Orissa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Accurate information is vitally important for condom promotion strategies. Who currently uses condoms and why? What is the potential need for condoms for family planning or disease prevention? A study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine addressed these issues among men in Orissa, Eastern India.

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