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    Displaced women and girls at risk: risk factors, protection solutions and resource tools

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2006
    Displaced girls are at increased risk of abuse, exploitation, coercion and manipulation. Displaced women and girls with physical and mental disabilities are particularly vulnerable, with elderly women also at increased risk of violence and exploitation, especially if they are physically fragile, suffering from chronic illness or abandoned.
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    Evaluation of the community-based rehabilitation programme in Uganda

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005
    The Community Based Rehabilitation Programme (CBR) in Tororo district, Uganda aims to achieve full integration of disabled persons in the main streams of society by undertaking rehabilitation measures at community levels that use and build on local resources available in the community.
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    Restoring appropriate sanitation services in Bam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Following a powerful earthquake in Bam, Iran in December 2003, local authorities coordinated the many agencies providing emergency sanitation services. The dilemma for all agencies in such situations is to balance providing assistance quickly with working to accepted international standards while involving the beneficiaries themselves. Difficult decisions need to be made fast.
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    Tanzania poverty and human development report 2005

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2005
    This paper reports successes and failures of the Tanzanian strategy for growth and reduction of poverty.
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    Social exclusion and the MDGs: the challenge of durable inequalities in the Asian context

    Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006
    Economic growth and poverty reduction have occurred unevenly across, and even within, Asian countries. This paper focuses on the chronic nature of poverty, and explores why social exclusion makes it more difficult for some sections of the poor to take advantage of the opportunities generated by economic growth.
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    Treating diabetes in Ghana: is there a role for traditional medicine?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Diabetes is a major cause of death and disability among adults in Ghana. Factors blamed include high medical costs, lack of drugs, and poorly financed diabetes services, as well as the inappropriate use of traditional medicine, in particular the practice of “healer shopping”.
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    Violence against disabled children

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2005
    This report presents the findings of the Thematic Group on Violence against Disabled Children convened by UNICEF.
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    Ensuring a gender perspective in education in emergencies

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2006
    This brief article discusses the issues in incorporating a gender perspective in education planning in emergencies.
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    Chronic poverty in Uganda: the policy challenges

    Development Research and Training, Kampala, Uganda, 2005
    Chronic poverty traps individuals and households in severe and multi-dimensional poverty for many years, often being transmitted across generations.
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    Understanding the causes of chronic poverty in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Most poverty surveys relate to a specific point in time and cannot explain what processes make households or individuals move into or stay in poverty. In Uganda, a combination of conflict and displacement with livelihood and household based shocks have had long-term impacts. Some relatively well-off households too have been unable to avoid dropping into severe and long-term poverty.

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