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    Integrating vertical programmes into sector wide approaches: experiences and lessons

    HLSP Institute, UK, 2001
    Does the transition to sector wide approaches (SWAps) in the health sector risk reducing the impact of previously successful initiatives covered by vertical health programmes?
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    Civil society and governance: a research study in India: draft synthesis report

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    This synthesis report is a preliminary attempt to capture the nuances of interface between civil society and governance in contemporary India. It is divided into six chapters:chapter one provides a conceptual understanding of the twin terms - civil society and governancechapter two traces the history of civil society in India .
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    Textile workers struggle for health and safety in Ahmedabad: a case study

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Unless textile mill workers are protected from the cotton dust which they are continuously exposed to, they are in danger of developing Byssinosis (or brown lung), first detected in the 18th century in workers working in the textile mills in Manchester, England.
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    Pratham - Mumbai Education Initiative: a citizen's effort for universalizing primary education in Mumbai

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    This case study is an attempt to delve into how different people and institutions in Mumbai came together in partnership to work for ensuring access to primary education for every child in the city, what strengthened this partnership and to what extent and in what manner the partnership moved forward to achieve this goal.
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    Civil society and governance case study of land distribution programme to Kol tribals in Chitrakot district Uttar Pradesh

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The Kol tribals of Chitrakoot district live a life of abject poverty, exploitation and almost complete subjugation to the feudal landowners, locally known as Dadus. A local civil society organisation, the Akhil Bhartiya Samaj Sewa Sansthan (ABSSS) has adopted a multi-pronged approach to simultaneously address three sets of issues which it felt were crucial for improving the lot of the Kols.
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    Civil society and governance: from the vantage point of the pavement dwellers of Mumbai

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The fundamental question asked by this study is: how does a group of subalterns, say the pavement dwellers, feature in the civil society argument? Being the most deprived and the most marginal among the urban poor, how do they relate to the urban space and to the politics of the city? Are they truly citizen-like agents or do they remain merely the object/target of state policy?
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    Fishermen's struggle against mechanised fishing in Kerala

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The fisherfolk movement against mechanised fishing in Kerala depicts the struggle of the marginalised artisanal fishing community for their right and control over their traditional livelihood resources.
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    Situation and voices: the older poor and excluded in South Africa and India

    United Nations Population Fund, 2002
    In order to sharpen international focus on some of the key operational challenges faced by older people today, UNFPA commissioned a pilot study in South Africa and India. The study methodology entailed a literature review, including an analysis of the socio-cultural factors affecting older people, and a participatory assessment of how older persons perceive their lives.
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    "...we are the government in our village...": Tribal's struggle for local governance

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The journey of the tribals and their struggles for local governance is explored in this paper. The paper analyses a series of struggles, the success in each one of which became the stepping stone and strength of the tribals to proceed on to the next.
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    Alternative budget analysis: DISHA's experience

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Developing Initiatives for Social and Human Action (DISHA), is a membership based organisation of 20,000 tribal and forest workers in Gujarat, which has addressed two questions on ideological and operational levels through alternative budget analysis.

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