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    ICT infrastructure in emerging Asia. Policy and regulatory roadblocks

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book addresses an important question: can technology by itself improve access to ICTs or must the policy and regulatory pre-conditions be satisfied in order to realise the potential of technological and service innovations?
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    Legal and ethical aspects of oppressed populations in clinical research

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Much clinical research carried out in developing countries may be neither necessary nor relevant for the participants. When research is conducted among oppressed populations, protecting participants is a challenge and raises questions of whether such research can or should be acceptable.
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    Safe motherhood in Nepal has some way to go

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In 1997 maternal mortality rates in Nepal were amongst the highest in South Asia. The Nepalese government and the UK Department for International Development set up the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project in order to improve emergency care for women during pregnancy and labour. How successful has this project been in achieving its goals?
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    Rehabilitating degraded land

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people.
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    Can well-regulated private education help achieve Education for All?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The privatisation of schools in developing countries is expanding rapidly. Does private education just benefit elite groups? Or should it be seen as a support to governments constrained by limited public budgets, low quality education and persistent schooling gaps? How should it be regulated? Should private providers receive state support?
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    The road to tuberculosis treatment in rural Nepal: a qualitative assessment of 26 journeys

    Health Services Research [journal], 2008
    This paper in BMC health services research tracks the routes of 26 patients to tuberculosis (TB) treatment in rural Nepal. The analysis, based on semi-structured interviews of patients who shared their disease history and health seeking behaviour, focuses on the encounters with the health care system before enrolment in the TB treatment programme.
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    Children and armed conflict: report of the Secretary-General

    Reliefweb, 2007
    This document is the annual report from the Secretary-General. It details progress in the implementation of SC Resolution 1612 – ending the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict and its monitoring and reporting mechanism. The report's findings include:
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    Food assistance programming in the context of HIV

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
    This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes.
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    Local communities and natural products: a manual for organising natural resource management groups for resource management planning, enterprise development and integration into value chains

    FRAME, 2007
    Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is key to ensuring that local communities' livelihoods needs are met through the sustainable management of natural resources. Policies promoting CBNRM mean that government agencies, non-governmental organisations and other service providers are increasingly becoming involved in supporting these communities to form natural resour
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    We know what we need. South Asian women speak out on climate change adaptation

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Women will suffer most from climate change, because they are poorer. They have less access to financial resources, land, education, health and other basic rights than men, and are seldom involved in decision making processes. Women are therefore less able to cope with the impacts of climate change and are less able to adapt.

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