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  Resource manual on flash flood risk management module 1: community-based management

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2008

  Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, the poor, women and children, are the worst hit. This manual aims to help communities build their capacity to manage flash floods and other disaster risks themselves.
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  Small technology – big impact: practical options for development

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2009

  This publication, based on AED’s experience, shows examples of the practical application of small technology that have a big impact around the developing world. The authors argue that technology has dramatically changed the world whereby almost anyone can “move” at internet-speed.
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  Accountability arrangements to combat corruption: a note on research methodology for combating corruption

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2007

  This document provides information about the research agenda and methods used to investigate corruption in the infrastructure sector. It presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyse corruption in the infrastructure sector.
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  The Glacier Trust, Water resources management for Nepali hill farmers

  Water Resources Management: The Glacier Trust is working with Practical Action in Nepal to build the resilience of subsistence mountain communities to adapt to climate change.
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  Local voices, global choices: for successful disaster risk reduction (DRR). A collection of case studies about community-centre partnerships for DRR

  ProVention Consortium, 2009

  Local Voices Global Choices is an interagency initiative supported by Action aid, British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Global Network of CSOs for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), International federation of the Red Cross, Oxfam, Practical Action, ProVention Consortium, Save the Children, and Tearfund.This report contains a number of case studies from around the world, which highlight what can be achiev
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  Implementing climate change adaptation in Nepal, WWF

  Some of the poorest communities are vulnerable to climate change impacts as they are largely dependent on natural resources for food, water and livelihoods.
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  Economic assessment of a women's group intervention to improve birth outcomes in rural Nepal

  The Lancet, 2005

  Of the 4 million neonatal deaths worldwide every year, most occur in developing countries. In Nepal, the burden of neonatal mortality is especially high, and over 90 percent of births take place at home without a trained attendant. Because of geographic and financial realities, achieving a substantial increase in facility-based deliveries is unlikely to be feasible in the short-term.
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  Aid and violence: development policies and conflict in Nepal

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009

  This paper aims to illustrate how aid policies and conflict are intertwined. It analyses the development/conflict nexus in Nepal over the last decade and includes discussions with aid agencies, donors, and analysts in Kathmandu.
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  Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

  University of California, Los Angeles, 2009

  Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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  An Exploratory Study of Complications from Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC): Improvement of the Quality of CAC Services in Nepal

  Population Health and Development Group, Nepal, 2008

  How safe are abortion care services in Nepal? How can abortion-related complications be reduced and monitored successfully? Nepal began providing comprehensive abortion care (CAC) services in 2004 after abortion became legal in 2002. Between 2004 and 2007, 176 CAC service sites - government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and private service centres - were established in the country.

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