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  Rural development in Swat, Pakistan: Understanding food and livelihood security in post-conflict contexts

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012

  In Pakistan, the Norwegian Embassy is supporting several international and local NGOs as well as several UN agencies in humanitarian and development activities in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including Swat.
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  Meanings of blood, bleeding and blood donations in Pakistan: implications for national vs. global safe blood supply policies

  Health Policy and Planning, 2011

  While contemporary policy asserts that blood donation by voluntary, non-remunerated, anonymous donors from low-risk population groups is safest, this may not be the most appropriate policy for ensuring an adequate safe blood supply in many parts of the world.
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  Pakreport: Crowdsourcing for Multipurpose and Multicategory Climate related Disaster Reporting

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  This case study focuses on Pakreport, an ICT initiative between crisis mapping organisations, engineers, relief agencies and crowdsourcing companies that began in July 2010 as a response to the floods.
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  Pensions at a glance

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012

  In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD member countries and non-member Asia/Pacific countries and economies.
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  Review of and recommendations for Norwegian support to good governance in Pakistan

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011

  A Governance review including political economy analysis of Pakistan with the main focus being on overall power relations at the national, provincial and local levels (particularly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK)) . The overall analysis addresses key sectors of Norwegian development cooperation with Pakistan including:
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  The global financial and economic crisis and its impact on women: a human rights perspective

  Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2011

  How has the global financial and economic crisis impacted on south Asian countries, and how has it affected women and men differently? Common economic analyses have highlighted the social impact using financial indicators. But this approach ignores those sections of society not counted in traditional economic spheres, including many women.
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  Gender review: Royal Norwegian Embassy Pakistan

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011

  In 2007 Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) adopted an action plan for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Development Cooperation (GEAP). The purpose of this gender review is to strengthen the efforts of the Norwegian embassy in Pakistan in particular to plan, implement, monitor, and report on how issues are promoted in programmes and in the policy dialogue with partners.
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  NGOs and government partnership for health systems strengthening: A qualitative study presenting viewpoints of government, NGOs and donors in Pakistan.

  BioMed Central, 2011

  This paper captures the perceptions by the government functionaries, NGO representatives and donor community of the role and position of NGOs in health systems strengthening in Pakistan's context.
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  Empowering Women: The effect of women’s decision making power on reproductive health services uptake. Evidence from Pakistan

  World Bank, 2011

  What correlations are there between women’s autonomy and their uptake of reproductive health services in Pakistan? This policy research working paper suggests that women’s decision making power has a significant positive impact on services uptake, while influential males’ decision making power has the opposite effect.
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  Information and Communication Technology in Healthcare Management Systems: Prospects for Developing Countries

  International Journal of Computer Applications, 2010

  This paper explores the emerging technologies which are being used for the improvement of the healthcare process and identify the problems and their probable solutions specifically in the context of developing countries.

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