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    Hygiene evaluation procedures: approaches and methods for assessing water (and sanitation) related hygiene practices

    United Nations University, 1997
    The handbook published by International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries (INFDC) provides practical guidelines for evaluation water- and sanitation-related hygiene practices. An evaluation of hygiene practices can be used for the purposes of project planning, monitoring, or final assessment of the project’s impact.
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    Operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation systems: a training package for managers and planners

    IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2001
    Training package designed as a guide to facilitators who run courses or workshops on the management of operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation services. It aims to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of water supply and sanitation services by highlighting the importance of community participation with the appropriate gender balance.
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    Food for all: can hunger be halved

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    Report providing an introductory overview of issues in light of the FAO's gloomy predictions regarding the global target to halve poverty by 2015. With case studies throughout the paper looks at the connection between hunger and poverty and the policies that are supposed to reduce both.
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    Water disputes in South Asia

    Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2001
    The paper examines various water sharing treaties in South Asia, with a comparative evaluation of past and future trends, followed by suggestions for a sustainable future cooperation.It examines:the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan India and Bangladesh dispute over the Ganges river India and Nepal sharing the Mahakali river watersIt makes the following obser
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    The Shared River Initiative on the Incomati : Southern Africa

    African Water Issues Research Unit, South Africa, 2000
    This paper tracks some of the dynamic processes currently at work in Southern Africa in particular those that are at work in the water sector, in an attempt to contextualize some of these processes in a way that is understandable to policy-makers.The paper outlines the hydropolitical background in South Africa and evaluates the Shared Rivers Initiative on the Incomati River in relation to thi
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    Subsurface dam for a pastoral environment

    Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997
    This paper explores the positive impact that small scale sub-surface dams can have in increasing pastoral water security during the prolonged dry season in SomalilandThe paper concludes that:as in other Sub-Saharan Africa countries small, scale sub-surface dams are an effective way of harvesting watersub surface dams are being introduced to increase water security for pastoralists,
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    Pak Mun Dam Case Study

    Thailand Development Research Institute, 2000
    As part of a two-year work programme to review the development effectiveness of large dams, The World Commission on Dams (WCD)commissioned TDRI to lead the case study on Pak Mun dam on the Mun river in Thailand's northeast region.
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    Adopting a Sustainable Livelihoods approach to water projects: implications for policy and practice

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    This paper has three elements. Firstly, the study investigates the pre-eminence of a health-based view within thewater and sanitation sector. Secondly, the paper also analyses water in the context of poor households. In doing so it uses the SustainableLivelihoods (SL) framework as an analytical tool.
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    Re-examining the 'more people less erosion' hypothesis: special case of wider trend?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    Recent research into natural resource rehabilitation based on in-depth case studies has highlighted situations where population growth and agricultural intensification have been accompanied by improved rather than deteriorating soil and water resources.
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    Contract farming: partnerships for growth

    Agricultural Marketing, FAO, 2001
    The purpose of this guide is to provide advice to management of existing contract farming companies on how to improve their operationscompanies that are considering starting such ventures on the preconditions and management actions necessary for success, and government officials seeking to promote new contract farming operations or monitor existing operations.It describes i

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