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    Using social protection to address vulnerability and foster citizenship in Pakistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    The World Bank’s understanding of vulnerability and social protection programmes is highly influential. Yet not all vulnerability can be assessed in terms of income and consumption flows that fluctuate with adverse events. The root causes of vulnerability may be found in unequal social relations that create chronic uncertainty for marginalised groups.
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    Pakistan: a long march for democracy and the rule of law

    International Federation for Human Rights, 2009
    This report addresses the situation of human rights in Pakistan during 2007 and the first half of 2008. It discusses violations of the principles of the rule of law and human rights violations committed by the state during the period covered.
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    HIV in Pakistan: preventing a future epidemic in most-at-risk groups

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009
    Very low levels of HIV and AIDS awareness and condom use, together with high-risk sexual behaviours in vulnerable groups such as injecting drug-users and sex workers, make Pakistan a potentially high-risk country for HIV spread. Current HIV prevalence is generally low but STI levels are high in some at-risk groups.
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    The democracy barometers: surveying South Asia

    Democracy Asia, 2008
    This paper discusses results of the first-ever simultaneous survey of attitudes toward democracy in the five countries of South Asia - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka - based on a large and representative sample of adult citizens. The survey provides evidence to suggest widespread support for democracy throughout the region.
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    Understanding and supporting the role of local organisations in sustainable development

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This publication is one in a series of case studies that reviews the experiences of local organisations in development and environmental management . It also examines the different kinds of external funding that best supported their efforts. The case studies are based on reflections by IIED and 6 of its local partners from Puerto Rico, Peru, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Argentina and Tanzania.
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    Putting National Gender-based Violence Legislation into Practice in the Philippines

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Gender-based violence (GBV) is a major problem in the Philippines, with approximately 9 per cent of women aged 18 and above having experienced physical abuse, much of which happens in the home at the hands of a relative or partner.
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    Context-sensitive engagement: lessons learned from Swiss experiences in South Asia for aid effectiveness in fragile scenarios

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2008
    This paper was written for the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana and critically assesses Switzerland’s long-term experiences in South Asia particularly in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The authors evaluate the work conducted in these countries, and distil lessons for engagement in fragile, conflict countries.
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    Social impacts of global cotton production

    International Cotton Advisory Committee, 2008
    This paper reviews and categorises the most significant social science studies of labour and social impacts in cotton cultivation in ten focus countries, identified as the largest producers by volume. It identifies and evaluates the key existing data and information sources on the social impacts, positive and negative, of global cotton cultivation.
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    The role of the affected state in humanitarian action: a case study on Pakistan

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2008
    This paper describes the role of the Pakistani state in humanitarian action. It looks at the structure and capacity of state institutions, in particular at the interesting balance of power between national and local state capacity on the one hand, and military and civilian authority on the other.
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    Decentralization, local government elections and voter turnout in Pakistan

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    The paper argues that as the scope of decentralisation in the developing world increases, and political and economic authority is devolved to local governments, there is a need to better understand the phenomenon of political participation in local government.  Accountability of local institutions requires broad groups of people to participate in local government, and voter turnout at local g

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