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    Trees and livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    Karamoja is a dryland sub-region in north-east Uganda, where 82% of the population live under the poverty line. It is troubled by climate variability and climate change, where floods and droughts have had a particularly detrimental effect.
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    World Risk Report 2014

    United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2014
    This WorldRiskReport (WRR) consists of an index, a focus on cities and thematic case studies. The index describes the disaster risk for various countries and regions.  The content includes: 1. Urbanization – trends and risk assessment 2. Focus: The city as a risk area 3. The WorldRiskIndex 2014 4. Political challenges and perspectives
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    Norway’s municipal international cooperation - results achieved and lessons learnt

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2015
    Municipal International Cooperation (1997-2014) was a programme involving municipalities in Norway and the Global South. It was managed by the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This report sums up results and identifies lessons to be learnt for a possible future scheme.
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    Past, present and future: fifty years of anthropology in Sudan

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015
    This book is about the history of anthropology in Sudan. Contributors to the book represent different generations of anthropologists who at some point in time either taught at the department in Khartoum or had some sort of connection to it.
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    Making youth employment policies work

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2015
    Government policy and public investment in Kenya has focused disproportionately on formal private sector development and on education that is geared to urban wage employment as a solution to youth unemployment. A closer look at the figures, however, reveals that underemployment, especially in rural areas, is the greater challenge.
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    Is Reliable Water Access the Solution to Undernutrition?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment. However, current evidence on the topic is diluted across many different publications.
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    HIV risk and prevention behaviours among people who inject drugs in six cities of Georgia: bio-behavioral surveillance in Tbilisi, Batumi, Zugdidi, Telavi, Gori, Kutaisi in 2012

    Curatio International Foundation, 2013
    Georgia is among the countries with low HIV/AIDS prevalence but high potential for developing a widespread epidemic. From the early stage of HIV epidemic in Georgia injecting drug use was the major mode of transmission. However, for the last two years heterosexual transmission became prevailing route for HIV spread.
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    Population size estimation of female sex workers In Tbilisi and Batumi, Georgia

    Curatio International Foundation, 2014
    Georgia is among the countries with low HIV/AIDS prevalence, but with a high potential for the development of a widespread epidemic. From the early years of epidemic injecting drug use was the main route of HIV transmission, however, for the last two years heterosexual transmission is prevailing.
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    Protection in crisis: forced migration and protection in a global era

    Migration Policy Institute, 2015
    Many forced migrants now fall outside the recognized refugee and asylum apparatus. Much displacement today is driven by a combination of intrastate conflict, poor governance and political instability, environmental change, and resource scarcity.
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    Where next for social protection?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda in the past ten to 15 years raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another development fad that declines and ultimately disappears.

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