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    Legislation generates conflict and opportunity for Asian non-governmental organisations

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Over the last two decades, donors working in the health sector have increasingly favoured non-governmental organisations over governments. This has led to competition for funding and legitimacy. Governments have responded in different ways with legislation that can either restrict or help non-governmental organisations.
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    Men's involvement in gender and development policy and practice: beyond rhetoric

    Oxfam, 2001
    This document presents a compilation of working papers which were presented at the seminar "Beyond Rhetoric: Male Involvement in Gender and Development Policy and Practice" (2000).The seminar explored the ways in which development organisations have addressed gender and development in the past, the problems that they have faced, and possible ways of working which take account of the identified
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    Time for climate change action in South Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Asia’s poorest countries are dependent on natural resources that are already insufficient to meet the region’s needs. It is these resources, including land, water, forests and fisheries, which are most difficult to protect against the effects of climate change.
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    Sugar industries in least developed countries: profiting from ‘Everything but Arms’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Guaranteed high prices are increasing sugar production in many of the world’s least developed countries. The possibility of duty and quota free access to European markets in 2009 is attracting foreign investment. Proactive governments are now needed to maximise the opportunities that the ‘Everything but Arms’ (EBA) initiative brings.
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    Can leprosy be eliminated by a single global campaign?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target to eliminate leprosy by the year 2000. The disease, which still caries a stigma, damages the skin and nerve endings and leads to ulcers and disability. A major World Health Organisation campaign has provided antibiotics to treat the disease in a number of countries. However a number of new cases have appeared in previously low priority countries.
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    Small arms misuse obstructs aid and development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Small arms in the hands of ill-disciplined civilians and armed groups are a primary threat to development and humanitarian assistance, limiting access to beneficiaries and resulting in the suspension of operations and projects.
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    Putting energy at the heart of poverty reduction

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    A quarter of humanity still lacks access to electricity. 2.4 billion people use biomass – wood, dung and crop waste – for their basic energy need, cooking. Market-driven and supply-led approaches to providing energy are failing to reach poor people.
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    Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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    A study of trafficked Nepalese girls and women in Mumbai and Kolkata, India

    Childtrafficking.com, 2005
    This is a qualitative study of Nepalese girls and women after they have been sold for prostitution into brothels in Mumbai and Kolkata, India. The study explores their first days, their years of confinement and their years in sex work after their release. The study investigates the economic forces that drive trafficking from Nepal: the demand of the client and the demand of the brothel owner.
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    Conservation in conflict: the impact of the Maoist-Government conflict on conservation and biodiversity in Nepal

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005
    Now in its ninth year of conflict between Maoists rebels and the government, Nepal has seen more than 12,000 people killed and worsening political, social, and economic instability.

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