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  First language first: community-based literacy programmes for minority language contexts in Asia

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005

  This comprehensive report is the outcome of the Regional Workshop on Mother Tongue/Bilingual Literacy Programmes for Ethnic Minorities held in Kunming, China (May 2004). This workshop presented findings from UNESCOs action research on using the mother tongue/bilingual approach in pilot literacy projects for ethnic minority communities.
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  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.
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  Measuring the pace of water sector reform in Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Since the 2000 World Water Forum in The Hague, many governments have pledged to change their water policies. Reform is taking place in some Asian countries but not in others. What facilitates or hinders the reform process in individual countries? Are there common issues that can make sharing regional experiences useful?
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  Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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  Sustaining East Asia’s economic dynamism: how aid worked

  Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 2004

  This paper examines the role of foreign aid or development assistance in helping to sustain East Asia’s economic dynamism.
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.
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  Adolescent and youth reproductive health in the Asia and Near East Region: status, issues, policies, and programs

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004

  This paper presents the findings of a series of assessments of adolescent and youth reproductive health conducted by the Policy Project in 13 countries in the Asia and Near East (ANE) region.
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  Trade liberalization and the structure of poverty in developing countries

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 2003

  This paper gives an analysis of the structure of poverty across a range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and explores how national poverty rates could be affected by global trade liberalization.Some of the main findings from this analysis are:the poor tend to be more specialized in the earnings sources than the non-poor, which makes them more vulnerable to tra
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  Intellectual and cultural property rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia

  Minority Rights Group International, 2003

  This report looks at efforts by the UN and governments to protect indigenous and tribal heritage from exploitation; the pressures on governments to allow exploitation of indigenous knowledge; the many initiatives taken by Asian indigenous and tribal peoples to protect their heritage; and the effects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Trade-Related Aspects of International
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of

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