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  Identifying and understanding chronic poverty: beyond monetary measures

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper calls for a greater focus on chronic poverty in analysis and policy debate, that is based on a broader concept. It discusses current approaches to the analysis of chronic poverty and poverty dynamics, as well as limitations of monetary measures.
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  Violence against women: a statistical overview, challenges and gaps in data collection and methodology and approaches for overcoming them: report of the expert group meeting

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  This paper summarises the discussions of an expert working group examining violence against women. The expert group discussed in-depth the strengths and weaknesses of the two most common forms of data collection on the subject: population-based surveys and service-based data.
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  Annotated CEDAW bibliography

  International Women's Rights Project, 2004

  This bibliography is a compilation of sources dealing with CEDAW. The sources have been organized into various topics identified within the articles of the Convention. Sources pertain specifically to CEDAW as a whole, but also cover issues that relate to specific topics discussed within the Convention.
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  The polyscopic landscape of poverty research: “state of the art” in international poverty research

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2005

  This paper discusses major trends in poverty research and identifies promising research results that might form a useful base for further research on causes, processes and formations of poverty in the South.The report consists of four parts:a polyscopic landscape of poverty research, outlining the directions that some of the major actors in poverty research have taken and points to some
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  With the support of multitudes:using strategic communication to fight poverty through PRSPs

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper aims to support the Poverty Reduction Strategy process through demonstrating to policymakers how strategic communication can contribute to achieving their objectives in formulating effective Poverty Reduction Strategies.
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  Doing interdisciplinary research on development and the environment: critical reflections on SUM’s experience

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2005

  This paper presents the experiences which the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) of the University of Oslo has gained from the last 10 years of undertaking interdisciplinary research on development and environment.Lessons learned are:the link from research to policy does not, in practice, proceed according to a linear, rational model, based simply on reliable ‘evidence’ -
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  Exploring the structured dynamics of chronic poverty: a sociological approach

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004

  The dominant forms of international poverty research involve statistical analyses of household surveys and 'qualitative' information produced using 'participatory' techniques. The expertises of other social scientists are rarely used to inform development policy.
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  Communicating food policy research: a guidebook

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This manual aims to help researchers enhance their communication skills and encourages them to think about the potential audiences for and beneficiaries of their research at the inception of every project. The manual highlights principles and procedures that have proven successful in presenting research results to peers, colleagues, the media, policymakers, and interest groups.
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  Information and governance: a guide

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This SDC policy document argues that access to information is an essential element of governance. The production, distribution and consumption of information has existed for as long as human beings have been communicating with each other. All of that gives access to information a powerful (and long underestimated) role in cooperation and development.
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  Implementing knowledge strategies: lessons from international development agencies

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This study synthesises existing research on knowledge and learning strategies in development agencies, and draws out eight key questions for comparison, analysis and evaluation of these strategies.

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