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    Methods for social researchers in developing countries

    Ahfad University for Women, Sudan, 2008
    Research is a demanding process, one that requires knowledge, skill, and careful decision-making. This guide is an interactive PDF version of a website of the “Methods For Social Researchers In Developing Countries” website. It provides social researcher working in developing countries with guidance and tools on planning, conducting and reporting their research.
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    A framework for monitoring and evaluating HIV prevention programmes for most-at-risk populations

    MEASURE Evaluation, 2007
    Interventions with most-at-risk populations can be as important in generalized epidemics as in low-level and concentrated epidemics. Without effective interventions in sex work and drug injecting networks, high HIV incidence can drive transmission regardless of epidemic stage.
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    Making waves: opportunities for reclaiming development in the Pacific. Informing civil society responses to the free trade agenda

    Pacific Network on Globalisation, 2008
    The Pacific Island Countries currently face pressure to ‘integrate into the global economy’ through implementing new free trade agreements. Free traders argue that the Pacific will benefit from cheaper imports, increased investment in the region and improvements in efficiency of Pacific business and service suppliers.
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    Community engagement and development handbook

    The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund, 2006
    This handbook addresses community engagement and development, a theme in the Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program. The program aims to identify key issues affecting sustainable development in the mining industry and provide information and case studies that illustrate a more sustainable basis for the industry.
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    Accountability principles for research organisations

    One World Trust, 2008
    A significant proportion of funds aimed at development are allocated to research. This investment in research is done on the basis that rational policy processes rely on good evidence. Research organisations generating this evidence can have great impact on the citizens of a country. As such, it is important that they remain accountable.
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    Open access publishing: a developing country view

    First Monday (USA), 2006
    This paper presents the experience with open access (OA) publishing by researchers in an academic research institution, the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad and Tobago. It describes the two parallel but complimentary paths for authors to enable open access: publishing in open access journals and/or self–archiving.
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    Open access archiving: the fast track to building research capacity in developing countries

    SciDev.Net – the Science and Development Network, 2005
    Scientific progress in developing and emerging countries is greatly hampered by their inability to afford essential journals. At the same time, research generated in these regions is 'missing' to the international knowledge base because of financial restrictions affecting its publication and distribution.
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    Open Access: scientific publishing and the developing world

    First Author, 2006
    Advances in science, medicine, technology and agriculture have the potential to contribute to the reduction of disease and poverty worldwide. Communications and information technology (ICT) has enabled collaboration and dissemination of scientific research on a global scale. However, scientists in the developing world are severely restricted in their access to current research.
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    Manual of credit rating for water districts in the Philippines

    US Agency for International Development, 2008
    This manual explains the steps involved in credit rating for water districts (WDs) in the Philippines. It defines the credit rating as an opinion on the ability and inclination (or willingness) of the water district to service its debt obligations
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    Visualizing information for advocacy: an introduction to information design

    Backspace, 2008
    Part of an advocacy campaign will involve collecting information and evidence to demonstrate the need for change. Information design which uses pictures, symbols, colours and words to communicate ideas, illustrate information and express relationships visually, can be an effective way of shaping understanding and clarifying meaning.

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