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    Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP)

    The Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP) is the largest and longest running project in the National Safe Motherhood Programme of His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN).
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    Coping with the burden of the costs of maternal health

    Nepal Safer Motherhood Project, 2004
    This paper, from the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project, funded by DFID, examines the costs associated with maternal health seeking behaviour in Nepal. The study is based on a survey of women who recently delivered at home and in health facilities, and a willingness-to-pay study that was used to investigate women’s preferences for, and valuation of, alternative delivery care services.
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    Debating shifting cultivation in the Eastern Himalayas: farmers’ innovations as lessons for policy

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2006
    Hundreds of millions of people in Asia are dependent on shifting cultivation, yet the practice has tended to be seen in a negative light and discouraged by policy makers. This document challenges prevailing assumptions, arguing that shifting cultivation – if properly practised – is actually a ‘good practice’ system for productively using hil
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    The road to health

    International Forum for Rural Transport and Development, 2002
    This article, published in Forum News, looks at issues relating to the accessibility of health and reproductive services in rural Nepal and the effects of road construction in improving access these services. It finds that the provision of roads has led to an overall increase in the use of regional facilities; however this trend has varied markedly between communities.
  • Document

    Nepal wireless networking project: case study and evaluation report

    Electronic Networking for Rural Asia/Pacific, 2006
    This paper presents a case study evaluation of Nepal Wireless Networking Project. With the aim of overcoming the digital divide, the project aims to increase communication facilities in the mountainous areas, thereby increasing educational opportunities in the community, helping villagers to buy and sell products and creating jobs.
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    General considerations on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples in Asia

    Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines, 2007
    This report presents a general overview of the situation of the rights of indigenous peoples in Asia. Drawing from specific examples in various Asian countries, it focuses on issues of particular concern in the region including the loss of indigenous land and resources, internal conflict and the special abuses faced by indigenous women.
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    Mothers and community based organisations tackle childhood nutrition in Nepal

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Evidence from countries such as Indonesia and Burkina Faso suggests that community-based organisations (CBOs) can play an important role in helping rural women reduce childhood malnutrition.
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    Anti-child trafficking legislation in Asia: a six country review

    International Labour Organization, 2006
    What are the inadequacies of the legal frameworks addressing the problem of cross- border trafficking? This extensive paper looks at international legal frameworks, and regional conventions. It highlights inadequacies of the legal frameworks in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia as well as the discrepancies between the national laws and international instruments.
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    A sense of direction: the trafficking of women and children from Nepal

    Childtrafficking.com, 2006
    What are the key causes for the continuation of trafficking of women and children from Nepal? This paper finds, amongst other points, that the trafficking situation is now worse than ever, with the current state of Nepal exacerbating the inherent problems (corruption, poverty, discrimination against women, etc) that have allowed trafficking to proliferate.
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    An integrated regional development approach – lessons from Nepal

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Development policy and practice over the past 50 years has largely treated urban and rural areas separately. However, the two are interdependent and there are constant flows of goods, people, and money between them, so this is an artificial divide.

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