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  Using microfinance to prevent debt bondage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Bonded labour is a major human rights challenge in South-East Asia. Millions of poor people are forced to work for little or no wage, as they struggle in vain to repay loans from their employers. The provision of microfinance is emerging as a key strategy, given that bondage generally results from the need for credit.
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  Helping children survive: assessing health prevention coverage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In most low-income countries various health interventions are put into action simultaneously with the aim of improving children’s survival rates. However, these interventions do not tend to reach all children and the number of interventions per child is often not adequate.
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  Rural–urban marketing linkages: an infrastructure identification and survey guide

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  Food supply and distribution systems in most developing countries are undergoing major changes following rapid urban population growth. This guide offers a simple planning methodology and framework to assist policy makers, non-government organisations and farmer groups to respond to these changes and ensure that rural producers have better access to markets for their products.
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  Asylums of exploitation: internally displaced children in the worst forms of child labour due to the armed conflict in Nepal

  Save the Children Fund, 2006

  This study of child labour and armed conflict in Nepal provides hard evidence to support the assertion that ever-increasing numbers of young children in Nepal are being forced to abandon their communities in outlying areas of the country and move to urban areas in search of peace and security.The authors find that rural internally displaced children in urban labour situations are subject to sev
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  Social protection index to help improve poverty reduction programmes

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Policymakers and donors are increasingly viewing social protection as an important tool for poverty reduction to achieve the Millennium Goals by 2015.  However, the discussion so far has focused on definitions and objectives of social protection. Very little information is available on the quantitative aspects beyond broad estimates of its costs.
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  Women's health groups to improve perinatal care in rural Nepal

  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2005

  This article, published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, examines the development of women’s groups in rural Nepal as a way of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. It reports that the groups developed varied strategies to tackle problems of maternal and newborn care: establishing mother and child health funds, producing clean home delivery kits, and operating stretcher schemes.
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  Working to improve the reproductive and sexual health of young people: Save the Children's experiences in Bhutan, Malawi, Nepal, and Viet Nam

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report outlines the experiences of delivering an Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) programme in Bhutan, Malawi, Nepal and Viet Nam. A participatory approach, involving young people and other stakeholders, was used to develop and implement the programme in each country.
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  ETFRN News 43/44: forests and conflicts

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2006

  This newsletter highlights the theme of forests and conflict. While there is much international debate on security and governance issues, sustainable management of natural resources appears to receive inadequate attention.
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  Tough choices: investing in health for development

  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2006

  This report is a synthesis of country experiences from three years of work, following the 2001 report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH).
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  NGO child-labour eradication programmes in Nepal

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In Nepal non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are contributing to the eradication of child labour through education, but support is minimal. Coordination is poor so that the most vulnerable children are not identified and prioritised for support.

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