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  Because I am a Girl. Double jeopardy: adolescent girls and disasters - the state of the World's girls 2013

  Plan International, 2013

  This 2013 ‘Because I am a Girl’ report looks at what happens to adolescent girls in disasters, and why.
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  Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013

  Peru’s ProJoven programme has successfully supported younger and more economically disadvantaged generations to gain the necessary qualifications to secure better quality jobs.
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  The complex effects of public policy on child labour

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2013

  Child labour is a complex phenomenon. Many policy instruments can be used to address child labour or can affect child labour, even if implemented to achieve other objectives. Predicting the impact of these policy instruments on child labour ex-ante is far from straightforward.
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  Low-cost private schools: evidence, approaches and emerging issues

  Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013

  Over the past five years, a polarised debate about the potential contribution of low-cost private schools (LCPSs) to achieving Education for All (EFA) objectives has received growing coverage in international policy circles.
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  Mapping potential implementing organisations for girls’ economic empowerment programme

  Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013

  DFID and the Nike Foundation are working in partnership to address constraints to the empowerment of adolescent girls in developing countries.
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  United Nations Children Fund, Nutrition (UNICEF Nutrition)

  UNICEF is a key partner in the major global initiative called the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement.
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  Child growth = sustainable economic growth: Why we should invest in nutrition

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  This policy brief, commissioned by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and used as a key resource for the Nutrition for Growth Summit in London, June 8, 2013, outlines the relationship that child nutrition has with a country’s economic growth. It outlines several ways in which investments in malnutrition reduction have a positive impact on economic growth.
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  Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries

  The Lancet, 2011

  This report is the second in a Series on early child development in low-income and middle-income countries and assesses the effectiveness of early child development interventions, such as parenting support and preschool enrolment.
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  Early childhood stunting is associated with poor psychological functioning in late adolescence and effects are reduced by psychosocial stimulation

  Journal of Nutrition, 2007

  Stunting is associated with deficits in cognition and school achievement from early childhood to late adolescence; however, there has been little investigation of emotional and behavioral outcomes. This study aims to determine whether linear growth retardation (stunting) in early childhood is associated with poorer psychological functioning in late adolescence.
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  Effective international action against undernutrition: why has it proven so difficult and what can be done to accelerate progress?

  The Lancet, 2013

  Many transnational organisations work to support efforts to eliminate maternal and child undernutrition in high-burden countries. Financial, intellectual, and personal linkages bind these organisations loosely together as components of an international nutrition system. In this paper, the authors argue that such a system should deliver in four functional areas:

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