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  Facing up to the storm: how local communities can cope with disaster: lessons from Orissa and Gujarat

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This disaster management book identifies how people, even in the poorest parts of the developing world, can survive disasters if they are involved in all aspects of managing disasters from response to prevention.
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  Capacity for development: new solutions to old problems: summary

  Reforming Technical Cooperation for Capacity Development, 2003

  Looks at what has gone right with technical cooperation in recent years, what has gone wrong, and how to do it better and perhaps very differently.
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  Lobbying by ethnic groups and aid allocation

  Economics and Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1999

  This paper develops a political-economic model of foreign aid allocation in which lobbying in the donor countries have important implications for the allocation of foreign aid.
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  Aid instruments (GSDRC topic guide)

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2003

  Topic guide from GSDRC, aiming to provide introductory information on aid instruments and aid effectiveness, focusing on government-to-government aid. Topics covered include:aid effectivenesspoverty reduction strategy papersbudget supportsector-wide approaches
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  Foreign assistance: sustained efforts needed to help Southern Africa recover from food crisis

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This paper documents research on the Southern African food crisis and assesses:factors that contributed to the crisishow well the populations' needs were metobstacles to the food aid effort, andthe challenges to recovery from the crisisThe main findings of the research are that:multiple factors including erratic weather, poorly functioning agricultural sectors ,
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  European development cooperation to 2010

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper presents a timetable of European development decisions through the next decade.
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  Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: a compact among nations to end human poverty

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2003

  This year's report proposes a policy approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by addressing the structural constraints that impede economic growth and human development.
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  HIV/AIDS and STI prevention and care in Rwandan refugee camps in the United Republic of Tanzania

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This monograph documents the first large-scale AIDS and STI intervention programme to be implemented during a refugee crisis. It describes the operational aspects of the intervention, the observed impact and the effect this experience had on policies and practices in other refugee situations, among both international and nongovernmental organizations.
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  General budget support evaluability study phase 1: final synthesis report

  Oxford Policy Management, 2002

  A significant proportion of bilateral aid is increasingly being committed to General Budget Support (GBS), but is this a suitable, effective and sustainable means of channelling international support to poverty reduction?
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  Decentralization and public services: the case of immunization

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper studies the impact of political decentralisation on childhood immunisation. The study confirms predictions in the theoretical literature about the negative impact of local political control on services that have public goods characteristics.

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