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    The role of civil society organizations in auditing and public finance management

    International Budget Partnership, 2005
    This paper argues that greater collaboration between public sector auditors or Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) and civil society organisations could enhance the practice of examining government accounts.
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    The politics of service delivery reform

    Development and Change Journal, 2004
    This article, published in Development and Change, identifies the leaders, supporters and resisters of public service reform, drawing principally on research from Ghana, Zimbabwe, India and Sri Lanka. It finds that reform was often constrained by a lack of political commitment and by the interests embedded in existing organisational arrangements.
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    Rights-based approach to development transforms a major international NGO

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Fighting Poverty Together is the name of ActionAid’s (a British aid agency) rights-based approach to development. ActionAid introduced several changes in the way it functions to reduce dependence on child sponsorship, decentralise its internal management and simplify its organisational structure.  But has this brought about any real changes at the grassroots level?
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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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    Report for span on the human rights’ violations of the ragpicker children

    Consortium for Street Children, 2004
    This paper illustrates the ways in which the rights of ragpicker children in India are violated by the government and other sectors of Indian society.
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    Information kiosks in every village by 2007: myth or reality?

    Digital Opportunity Channel, 2004
    This paper focuses on scalability, sustainability and collaboration aspects in building infokiosks or knowledge centres in India.It summarises viewpoints from an e- discussion, Video Conference and the Task Force Reports which emerged out of the National Policy Makers’ Workshop held in July 2004 in New Delhi.
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    Nepali women trafficked for sex work in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    It is estimated that up to 7,000 Nepali women and girls are trafficked – transported through deception, exploitation or abduction – for sex work in India each year, and that 200,000 Nepalis are working in the sex industry in India.
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    Conversations with women on leadership and social transformation

    2004
    This paper compiles interviews with 18 women community leaders, clarifying thier visions, perspectives on coalition building and leadership, and their fundamental questions on how to challenge power and accountability. In their own words, these women talk about leadership and particularly women’s practice of that leadership for social change.
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    Child labour in India: a health and human rights perspective

    The Lancet, 2003
    This article, published in the Lancet, reports on a study by the Physicians for Human Rights Child Rights Group which investigated the health of children working in hybrid cottonseed fields in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. The study found that the majority of children surveyed were in debt bondage to pay off a family loan or advance.
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    Counter terror operations: limitations to security forces

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2002
    Although the use of force has been considered to be one of the many tools of counter-terror operations, it appears to be the only exercised choice in India. Given this over-reliance, the paper claims that there exists little difference between counterinsurgency and counter-terror operations from the point of use of military force.

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