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    Mental health in post-communist countries

    British Medical Journal, 2005
    This British Medical Journal editorial highlights the mental health challenges facing the formerly communist countries of central and eastern Europe. It notes that political, economic and social changes, increased inequalities in income, and social upheaval, have been associated with increases in both physical and mental illness.
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    Community-based organisation management: handbook series for community-based organisations

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2006
    Community-based organisations (CBOs) play an important and relevant role in providing services at the local level. They work in a variety of different fields, such as education, health, disability rights, gender issues and social justice.
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    Preventing disease through healthy environments: towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease

    World Health Organization, 2006
    How much disease could be prevented through better management of our environment?
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    Disabilities and gender in primary education

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003
    To monitor the inclusion of students with disabilities in the context of Education for All (EFA), it will be necessary to have statistics on the numbers of primary school age children with a disability, by age and gender.
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    Hidden sisters: women and girls with disabilities in the Asian and Pacific region

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1996
    Throughout Asia and the Pacific, women and girls with disabilities face triple discrimination because they have a disability, are female, and are poor.
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    Education for All: a gender and disability perspective

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003
    Girls with disabilities are a large, diverse group whose educational needs have gone unnoticed by those committed to either gender equity or disability equity.
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    Making PRSP inclusive

    Handicap International, 2006
    Disabled people's organisations (DPOs) and people with disabilities rarely participate in any PRSP process, despite the professed importance of civil society involvement in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of a country's national poverty reduction strategy.
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    PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
    In early 1998, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was asked to assist the PROGRESA administration to "determine if PROGRESA is functioning in practice as it is intended to by design".
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    Does Chronic Poverty Matter in Uganda?

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    This policy brief describes the circumstances of the chronically poor in Uganda, and offers a range of suggestions on programmes and areas for attention to support the Ugandan government's social protection agenda.The paper specifically notes the need for efforts to target very poor households.
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    Making children’s rights work: country profiles on Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, and Vietnam

    International Bureau for Children’s Rights, 2006
    This report summarises country profiles on children’s rights in Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, and Vietnam. The report aims to highlight the existing challenges and gaps in the progress and at implementing the Convention of the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols.

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