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  How to end child marriage: action strategies for prevention and protection

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007

  Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these girls are often subjected to domestic violence, sexual abuse and social isolation.
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  People, policy, and partnership for disaster resilient development

  National alliance for disaster risk reduction (NADRR), 2007

  This document outlines the proceedings of a two-day workshop entitled ‘People, policy, and partnership for disaster resilient development’ held in 2007 in New Delhi. The workshop focused on sharing lessons and building partnerships to scale up community-led disaster reduction initiatives.
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  Alternate models to micro savings for the 'bottom-of-the pyramid' in rural areas: lessons from India, Bangladesh and Nepal & some policy doables

  2008

  Microfinance (MF) organisations assume that savings need to be in financial form and should be done with regularity and predictability. MF is therefore not adequate to enhance the rural ultra poor's savings marked by:
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  Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

  International Development Research Centre, 2008

  This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.
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  Don't call it shangri-la economic programs for displaced populations in Nepal

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2008

  In 1996, an armed Maoist insurgency grew out of the Communist Party of Nepal and resulted in 10 years of conflict, human rights violations perpetrated by both the government and the Maoists, and large-scale
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  Lessons from water and sanitation mapping in Africa and South Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Mapping provides clear information on access to water and sanitation in poor countries. This information can be used by citizens to demand better services and by local governments to improve service delivery. What lessons can be learnt from the use of mapping in WaterAid’s country programmes?
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  Helping the families of home-based workers break the cycle of poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  In Asia there are millions of home-based women workers and the vast majority are poor. How can the risks and vulnerabilities these women face be reduced? And what can be done to help the children of home-based workers escape poverty?
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  Forests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008

  This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.
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  Safety net: protected areas and poverty reduction

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008

  This report looks at the role of protected areas in poverty reduction, focusing primarily on the poorest countries and on poor communities within those countries. The publication seeks to specifically review five linked questions:
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  HIV, nutrition, and food: a practical guide for technical staff and clinicians

  Family Health International, 2007

  The spread of HIV through many regions of the world is highlighting the complex and evolving relationship between food, HIV infection, and nutritional status. This guide is aimed at technical staff and clinicians providing concise practical information on HIV, nutrition and food by providing:

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