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  Gender, water and sanitation case studies on best practices

  2006

  During its 58th Session, the United Nations General Assembly declared the period 2005-2015 the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’.
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  Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007

  In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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  Pakistan’s energy crisis: causes, consequences and possible remedies

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014

  The energy crisis is the largest single drain on Pakistan’s economy. This crisis stems from a fuel mix transformation initiated two decades ago, when power generation came to rely more on imported furnace oil than hydropower.
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  Agriculture and nutrition in Pakistan: pathways and disconnects

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2013

  This paper analyses the pathways and disconnects between agriculture and nutrition in the context of Pakistan, using a framework developed by theTackling the Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India (TANDI) research programme.
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  Analysing nutrition governance in fragile contexts: lessons and implications

  2013

  This MQSUN Briefing describes lessons learnt and implications from a MQSUN assignment which main objective was to analyze the research and policy challenges for improving nutrition governance in a context of state fragility. Efforts to strengthen government commitment to reduce under nutrition in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS) face a number of context specific challenges:
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  The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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  Women health workers creating particular pathways of change

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  Being a ‘Lady Health Worker’ (or community health worker) in Bangladesh and Pakistan changes women’s status and relations at the level of the family, community, their organisation and society as a whole.  The women’s improved standing in the community reflects the increasing recognition given to health care and family planning.
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  Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms

  World Bank, 2013

  The government of Pakistan's 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7 per cent per year through measures to reduce the cost of doing business, improve the investment climate, and strengthen institutions.
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  Using time-to-event analysis to complement hierarchical methods when assessing determinants of photographic detectability during camera trapping

  2013

  Camera trapping, paired with analytical methods for estimating occupancy, abundance and other ecological parameters, can yield information with direct consequences for wildlife management and conservation. Although ecological information is the primary target of most camera trap studies, detectability influences every aspect from design to interpretation.
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  Action on under-nutrition in Pakistan: opportunities and barriers

  2013

  This Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition Programme (MQSUN) Briefing is based on the study The Political Economy of Under-Nutrition in Pakistan. It highlights challenges faced for mainstreaming nutrition as an inter-sectoral development priority and provides strategic recommendations using Acosta and Fanzo’s nutrition governance framework.

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