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  Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper reports on a study which addresses the challenges of child stunting in Ethiopia. At present, the report notes that stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at around 60 percent since the early 1980s and is among the highest in the world.
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  Approach to Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries and Japan's Contribution

  Japan International Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This paper argues that the Japanese development community should not take the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) and Poverty Reduction Strategic Paper (PRSP) regime as given, but instead, should endeavour to conceive and propose effective approaches to poverty reduction based on its own experiences and perspectives.The paper outlines issues that should be considered by the Japanese gover
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  The study on development assistance in water sectors: response to water problems in developing countries

  Japan International Cooperation Agency, 2002

  This paper reports on works carried out by JICA’s Study Group on Development Assistance in Water Sectors on classifying issues in each water sector and reviewing Japan’s performance of assistance.The five special priority areas of assistance and cooperation pointed out are:comprehensive water management in monsoon Asiaconservation of the regional environments by water pollution prev
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  Harmonising donor practices for effective aid delivery: good practice papers

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003

  This paper presents a series of good practice recommendations on how donors can enhance their operational procedures with a view to strengthening partner country ownership. It focuses on 6 areas: Framework for Donor Co-operation: This chapter sets out nine guiding principles for providing more co-ordinated and effective development assistance.Donors should support country
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  Report of the Manila Symposium on capacity development

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  This paper reports on the International Symposium on Capacity Development.
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  Donor information and communication technology (ICT) strategies: summary matrix

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  This document analyses ICT for development strategies (objectives, guiding principles, institutional arrangements) and programmes designed to implement these strategies.
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  HIV/AIDS: what are the implications for humanitarian action? A literature review

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2003

  This report reviews the growing literature on HIV/AIDS and food security, examines where emergency relief should be situated within the wider response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and considers how humanitarian aid agencies need to take HIV/AIDS into account in the programming of emergency aid.The report considers the complex relationships between HIV/AIDS and food security and that in order to cap
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  World Disasters Report 2003

  International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2003

  In the light of the ‘war on terror’ and the changing landscape in which humanitarian organisations operate, this report asks what ethical dilemmas and moral trade-offs do humanitarians face in an increasingly politicised environment? It further asks if is aid really reaching those in greatest need? Do we even know where humanitarian needs are greatest?
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  Independent evaluation of SDC’s bilateral engagement in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process

  Gerster Consulting, 2003

  This paper assess Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC's) contribution to PRSP processes and how SDC's own approach was being affected by PRSPs. The evaluation involved an SDC-wide survey on PRSP experience to date, and country case study visits to Burkina Faso, Vietnam, Nicaragua and the Kyrgyz Republic.
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  Toward country-led development: a multi-partner evaluation of the Comprehensive Development Framework: synthesis report

  World Bank, 2003

  This evaluation report synthesises the assessment of implementation of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF).The evaluation’s primary objectives are to: identify the factors that have facilitated implementation of CDF principles, and those that have hindered itassess the extent to which CDF implementation has affected intermediate outcomes, and to the extent possible, longer

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