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    Welcome to the WTO club: where do we go from here?

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2008
    The accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is seen as an opportunity for the acceded country to participate more fully in the global economy. In this sense, this comment paper sheds light on the experiences of Nepal and Cambodia.
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    Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.
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    Social networks and migration: far west Nepalese labour migrants in Delhi

    NCCR North South, 2006
    According to the livelihoods approach, choice and practice of migration is strongly linked with the assets people possess. Social networks are key assets in determining the nature and potential success of migration as a strategy to improve livelihoods.
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    Child voices: children of Nepal speak out on climate change adaptation

    Children in a Changing Climate, 2008
    In 2008 Children in a Changing Climate’s research programme worked with ActionAid Nepal, and its partner organisations, to help poor children in the plains, hills and urban areas of Nepal make short films about how climate change is being experienced by their communities.
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    Community self-mobilisation to end open defecation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).
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    The applicability of the Paris Declaration in fragile and conflict-affected situations

    IDL Group, 2008
    The Paris Declaration sets out an overall framework of agreement and structure of mutual accountability between aid-receiving countries and their development partners to give substance to the consensus model of “country-led” development. This thematic study acts as a contribution to Accra discussions.
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    Nepal: a Gender View of the Armed Conflict and the Peace Process

    2008
    Over the last two years Nepal has been engaged in a peace process aimed at tackling the causes of the 10 year armed conflict between the government and the Maoist party. During this decade the impact on women of a sharp increase in the number of female-headed households, was made worse by the threat of gender-based violence mainly at the hands of the State security forces.
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    From risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008
    This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change through an analysis of case studies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The paper focuses on water related disasters and the manner in which they may change as a consequence of climate change.
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    Developing community-based forest enterprises in Nepal

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    Based on a study involving 28 different types of community-based forest enterprises (CBFEs), this policy brief summarises the important constraints affecting CBFEs in Nepal. It identifies key areas for intervention and suggests specific developmental and regulatory interventions for the government and other key organisations involved in promoting CBFEs.
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    Hill Agricultural Research Project (HARP), Nepal: lessons for the policy, institutions and processes dimensions of the Sustainable Livelihoods approach

    Eldis Document Store, 2000
    How does the policy and institutional environment constrain agricultural research? Do competitive research funds improve agricultural extension services?

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