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  Integrating older people: a training of trainers manual for successful mainstreaming of age-friendliness in the Canadian Red Cross' programme in Aceh, Indonesia

  HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009

  This training of trainers manual was developed for use in by the Canadian Red Cross, but is suitable for other organisations to adapt for their own purposes.  The manual consist of six units that can be treated as sessions which can make up a three day intense workshop, or can be individually selected to provide topic specific training.
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  Non-discrimination in emergencies: training manual and toolkit

  Save the Children Fund, 2008

  Agencies who respond to emergencies are also in danger of maintaining or even worsening the entrenched exclusion and prejudice experienced by many people before an emergency. Children, as an already powerless group, may be particularly at risk of discrimination in an emergency.
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  Ageing and health: a health promotion approach for developing countries

  WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2003

  This document, by the World Health Organization (WHO), outlines methods of responding to the health needs of ageing populations in developing countries. It focuses on the Western Pacific Region of the WHO.
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  Addressing unemployment and poverty through public works programmes in South Africa

  Academic Journals, 2008

  In an effort to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the government of South Africa is implementing a number of programmes that address the country’s high rates of unemployment and poverty. One key initiative has been the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), launched in May 2004 for a period of five years.
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  Weathering the storm: economic policy responses to the financial crisis

  World Bank Publications, 2008

  This paper evaluates policy stances for developing countries to adopt measures in dealing with the global economic downturn. The global economy is forecast to grow by only 1 percent, with growth in high income countries expected to go from 2.5 percent in 2007 to a contraction of 0.1 percent in 2009, and developing country growth expected to fall from 7.9 percent in 2007 to 4.5 percent in 2009.
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  Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009: Overcoming inequality: why governance matters

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2008

  This report argues that while there has been some remarkable progress towards some of the EFA goals since 2000, progress is being undermined by a failure of governments to tackle persistent inequalities based on income, gender, location, ethnicity, language, disability and other markers for disadvantage.
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  Unintentional injuries and violence

  Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2008

  This chapter on Unintentional Injuries and Violence from the book ‘International Public Health’ examines issues relating to a number of cause-specific injuries. It emphasises that a scientific approach to the prevention and control of injuries must be implemented, and has significantly raised the profile of injuries on the public health agenda.
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  Prehospital trauma care systems

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This manual, published by the World Health Organization, focuses on the most promising interventions and components of pre-hospital trauma care systems, in particular those that are affordable and sustainable, and require minimal training and relatively little equipment.
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  Guidelines for essential trauma care

  World Health Organization, 2004

  Injury has become a major cause of death and disability worldwide and organised approaches to its prevention and treatment are needed. The goal of these guidelines, published by the World Health Organization, is to promote low-cost improvements and set achievable standards for trauma treatment services that can realistically be made available to almost every injured person in the world.
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  Education governance matters

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Good governance in education is about ensuring children have access to well-funded schools with well-trained and motivated teachers. And it must include strategies to reduce inequality.

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