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  Assessment of trade facilitation measures implementation in selected Asia-Pacific countries

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2008

  This document presents an assessment of the implementation of trade facilitation measures related to GATT Articles V, VIII, X , in a selected five Asian and Pacific developing countries (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia and Nepal) in the context of the on-going WTO negotiations.
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  Water democracy: reclaiming public water in Asia

  Focus on the Global South, 2007

  Water crisis is largely a problem of governance. While there is an obvious bias towards privatisation as a solution to the water sector problems, the last few years have also seen many social mobilisations, consolidation of forces, and hard-won battles for peoples and communities’ water struggles, particularly in defending water as a human right.
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  Recentralizing while decentralizing: how national governments reappropriate forest resources

  Elsevier, 2006

  This paper shows how central governments in six countries—Senegal, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia, Bolivia, and Nicaragua—use a variety of strategies to obstruct the democratic decentralisation of resource management and, hence, retain central control.
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  Older people’s associations in community disaster risk reduction: a resource book

  HelpAge International, 2007

  Building community capacity through Older People’s Associations (OPAs) enhances the resilience of a community in the event of a disaster. Lessons learnt suggest that there are many ways in which older men and women can contribute in planning and coordinating community responses to disasters. [adapted from author]
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  Strong public-private sector partnerships can help to reduce undernutrition

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Global progress towards reducing undernutrition has been made through enlightened public policies, targeted development assistance, private sector actions and commitments from civil society. Yet every year, the deaths of more than 3.5 million children under the age of 5 can be attributed to undernutrition.
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  People, protected areas and global change: participatory conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe

  NCCR North South, 2008

  This document compares findings from in-depth research on protected area (PA) management in Latin America Africa, Asia and Europe. It describes how PAs have been managed over the last 50-100 years and considers the ecological, social and economic benefits brought by enhanced participation.
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  Accounting for the ecological dimension in participatory research and development: lessons learned from Indonesia and Madagascar

  Ecology and Society, 2008

  At the interface of environmental and social issues, not enough is known about the links between policies, regionally important biophysical factors, local natural resource management sustainability,
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  Will agroforests vanish? The case of Damar Agroforests in Indonesia

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2008

  Resin producing agroforestry in the Krui area of Sumatra in Indonesia is presented as an environmentally friendly, income generating land-use system which contributes to both development and conservation objectives. This paper studies the change in household income portfolios in three communities in the Krui area with the aim of answering five research questions:
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  The hidden carbon liability of Indonesian palm oil

  Greenpeace International, 2008

  This paper looks at the effects of Indonesia’s palm oil industry. It focuses on the activities of Unilever and other major organizations in dealing with the carbon liability issue. The paper concludes by discussing the way ahead to 2015 and 2050.
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  Adoption of the internet in rural NGOs in indonesia - a study on internet appropriation for rural sector reform

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008

  Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actors have different perspectives and stances towards it.

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