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  Public-private mix for DOTS implementation: what makes it work?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization compares processes and outcomes of four public-private mix (PPM) projects implementing DOTS for tuberculosis (TB) control, in New Delhi and Pune, India, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, and Nairobi, Kenya.
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  The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

  Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002

  This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.
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  UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004

  This report warns that the number of people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has risen in every region of the world during 2003 and last year five million people became newly infected with HIV - more people than any previous year.The report highlights the latest global trends and, for the first time, features revised HIV prevalence rates for previous years, allowing for a better und
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  Poverty mapping with aggregate census data

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the loss in precision associated with using aggregated census data instead of household level data to generate poverty estimates.
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  Enhancing gender and development in member countries: a review

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2003

  This paper presents the review of an Asian Development Bank (ADB) project to enhance the gender and development (GAD) capacity of agencies responsible for executing Bank activities.
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  Review of Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003

  This report details the first joint Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process in seven countries: Bolivia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
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  Politics and the PRSP approach: synthesis paper

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper synthesises findings from four country (Bolivia, Georgia, Uganda & Vietnam) case studies on the political dimensions of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach.The authors argue that there are two contrasting visions to the approach behind the PRSP process as follows:The first being that it is an approach offering a potentially transformative agenda of pro-poor r
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  Financing agricultural marketing: The Asian experience

  Agricultural Marketing, FAO, 2004

  Reporting an exploratory study, this paper looks at how traders and processors of grains and horticultural produce in Asia finance their marketing activities and how they use that finance.The paper concludes that lack of working capital is probably not a major constraint to the functioning of agricultural marketing systems in Asia.
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  Children and young people participating in PRSP processes: lessons from Save the Children's experience

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This paper summarises from Save the Children UK's experience in facilitating children and young people’s participation in PRSP processes, highlighting in particular the experiences of Vietnam and Honduras, and drawing on insights from Lesotho, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the work of a Guyanese NGO.
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  The macroeconomics of poverty reduction: initial findings of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Programme

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  This paper presents some initial findings from the drafts of eight case studies (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam).

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