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  Social and gender analysis in natural resource management: learning studies and lessons from Asia

  International Development Research Centre, 2006

  This on-line book documents and reflects on the steps that researchers are taking to implement social and gender analysis, including questions of class, caste, and ethnicity, into their everyday work.
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  Lessons from the classroom: a policy research report on teachers' motivation and perceptions in Nepal

  Voluntary Service Overseas, 2005

  The main objectives of this research study are to identify factors affecting teacher motivation in Nepal, and to provide insights into these issues to policy-makers and other stakeholders.Research finds that teachers in Nepal are working in very difficult situations and with limited resources.
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  Gender and child health care seeking in Nepal

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The mortality rates for children under five in Nepal are among the highest in the world, with substantial differences existing between the rates for boys and girls. If efforts to reduce child mortality are to be more effective, an understanding is needed of how gender influences households' decisions to seek health care for their children.
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  Advancing Reproductive Health as a Human Right: Progress toward Safe Abortion Care in Selected Asian Countries since ICPD

  IPAS, 2004

  Nearly 70,000 women die every year as a result of unsafe abortions, 50 percent of these in Asia. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 1994, addressed abortion related maternal death as an international public health concern. Outcomes of the ICPD included agreement that post abortion care (PAC) should be available where abortion was legal.
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  Winning people's will for girl child education: community mobilization for gender equality in basic education

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005

  In 2004 and 2005, the UNESCO office in Kathmandu conducted an action-research project to work on the access and retention in school of girls from Dalit (or untouchable) castes. Given the social and cultural complexities relating to this most deprived caste group, their activity was focused on community mobilisation and gaining "people’s will" on girls’ education.
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  Adverse impacts of climate change on development of Nepal: integrating adaptation into policies and activities

  Capacity Strengthening of Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change, 2005

  Nepal is landlocked and highly mountainous with a diverse environment resulting from extreme spatial climate variation; climate varies from tropical to arctic over a span of approximately 200 km.
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  Street trading to reduce poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Millions of hawkers and vendors earn their living in the streets of developing countries. The mechanisms by which they access public spaces and their relations with municipal authorities remain poorly understood. Policies are needed to maximise the economic, social and environmental potential of public space to support their efforts.
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  Planning, monitoring and evaluation in the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD): a report of an evaluation to the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Kathmandu, Nepal, and Norad

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  This document provides recommendations to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal, for strengthening the development of an effective participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) system.
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  Climate debt: making historical responsibility part of the solution

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  This publication from Friends of the Earth argues that with regard to climate change, historical responsibility for emissions means that compensation based on climate debt should be added to a rights-based approach for determining fair shares of environment space.
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  Stealing the future: corruption in the classroom

  Transparency International, 2005

  This report presents ten studies carried out in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia.

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