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    Getting rights right - Is access to justice as important as access to health or education?: id21 insights, issue 43

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A core government function is to provide an effective system of justice for its citizens. Yet many governments fail to deliver on the basic services of protecting physical safety, securing personal property and settling disputes quickly and fairly. Recent studies have highlighted the fact that for poor people, access to justice
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    International responses to Pakistan’s water crisis: opportunities and challenges

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2010
    Pakistan faces a multidimensional water crisis that claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year. This paper examines the potentials for the international community to help Pakistan to overcome this crisis, and makes recommendations to both the Pakistani government and other interested parties.
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    Urban-rural inequities in knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding tuberculosis in two districts of Pakistan’s Punjab province

    International Journal for Equity in Health, 2011
    This journal article presents a study on inequities in knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding tuberculosis (TB) among the urban and rural populations in two districts of Pakistan’s Punjab province.  The study was conducted with 1080 subjects aged 20 years and above, including 432 urban and 648 rural respondents who were randomly selected.
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    Beyond the BICs: identifying the ‘emerging middle powers’ and understanding their role in global poverty reduction

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are playing a more prominent role in regional and global arenas.
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    Pakistan floods 2010; Rapid gender needs assessment of flood affected communities

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2010
    What gender issues emerged from the Pakistan Floods of 2010? The purpose of this United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Rapid Gender Assessment Needs Report is to substantiate the findings of the preliminary report (4 September 2010).
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    Shared goals: measuring overall development progress in Pakistan

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2011
    The USA would like to see a Pakistan that is: more capable and prosperous; less fractious; and able to fulfill three basic functions: ensure internal security, meet the basic needs of its citizens, and maintain its own legitimacy.
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    Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

    Development Research Network, 2010
    This brief focuses on how disaster risk management approaches are taking longer term climate change perspectives. The intention is to highlight, through a series of case studies and research summaries, some best practice/management practices implemented in South Asia and offer recommendations for both practitioners and policy makers.
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    Pakistan: the worsening IDP crisis

    International Crisis Group, 2010
    This paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the urgency for relief and rehabilitation, donors may opt to collaborate with the ruling military regime.
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    Post Conflict Challenges and Opportunities for Gender Equality in Pakistan IDP Crises

    2010
    Women disproportionately bear the consequences of war and suffer violations of human rights in situations of armed conflict. In northwest Pakistan, where in 2009 conflict induced internal displacement was experienced on a massive scale, women and girls are vulnerable to all forms of violence and face strong opposition to their participation in public life, education and free movement.
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    Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.  While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatel

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