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  Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW).
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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Coping with uncertainty: women in the informal fish processing and marketing sectors of Lake Victoria

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2002

  This study looks at the role and coping mechanisms of women in the informal fishing industry (fish processing and marketing of fish) in the Kenyan part of Lake Victoria.The paper, through a rational choice and social capital approach, asks which strategies the fishmongers employ in order to cope with the instability of the fishing industry.
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  Network: research to practice

  Network, 2003

  This issue of Network (Family Health International's (FHI) quarterly scientific bulletin) discusses some of the key challenges of translating health research into positive practice. The complexities of both the research and policy-making processes, as well as the difficulties of effecting organisational and behavioural change are emphasised.
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  Public policies impacts on Latin American labor structures: preparing for integration

  GDNet document store, 2002

  Employment and other labor markets public policies are an important area for consideration if Latin American economies are to be adjusted to a regional integration network, so what are the impacts of governmental measures presented in the diverse economic conditions of those countries?
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  NPA's Southern Sudan programme: an assessment with reference to the current Sudanese context and future institutional Cooperation with Noragric

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003
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  Perceptions of knowledge and coping strategies in nomadic communities: the case of the Hawawir in northern Sudan

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2001

  This paper looks at the reasons why children, especially girls, from the nomadic community of Hawawir in Sudan are not being sent to school.
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  Motherhood in Malagasy society: a major component in the tradition vs modernity conflict

  University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2003

  It has emerged on many different occasions that many Malagasy women, particularly the educated ones, believe that modernity is synonymous with emancipation of women, which implies that in traditional Malagasy society, women were not emancipated. So is this accurate, or is it symptomatic of Western ways and values arising in the country?
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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.
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  Gender, resource management and livelihood security

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1998

  This report looks at the roles which women and men play in resource management and food or livelihood security, in order to understand changing social relations, both within and between households.These preliminary discussions will be used to inform the broader objective of the study which will explore what effect changes in the gendered patterns of access to and control of resources has on food s

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