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  Bio-intensive farming system: an alternative approach to address poverty and livelihoods concerns

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This article explains the rise of rural impoverishment and marginalisation in Nepal as a function of the effects of globalisation, open market economic policies and inappropriate development policies.
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  Caste discrimination and the private sector

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005

  This report outlines the main arguments and issues raised in the seminar entitled ‘Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia’ held in 2004 in London. The seminar raised a number of important issues in relation to caste discrimination and foreign investment in South Asia.
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  First language first: community-based literacy programmes for minority language contexts in Asia

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005

  This comprehensive report is the outcome of the Regional Workshop on Mother Tongue/Bilingual Literacy Programmes for Ethnic Minorities held in Kunming, China (May 2004). This workshop presented findings from UNESCOs action research on using the mother tongue/bilingual approach in pilot literacy projects for ethnic minority communities.
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  The movement of women: migration, trafficking, and prostitution in the context of Nepal’s armed conflict

  Human Trafficking, 2005

  This study aims to understand the patterns of girls’ and women’s movement in contemporary Nepal, especially in view of the conflict which is leading to serious threats in the lives of women and girls.Main findings of the study include:conflict is significantly increasing both external migration and internal migrationthe number of women and girls migrating though borders to India in
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  Nepal: children caught in the conflict

  Amnesty International, 2005

  This article discusses the human rights abuses that children are facing because of armed conflict in Nepal, which are being committed by both parties to the conflict, and perpetuated by the failure of the state to meet its obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of children.The study finds that minimal effort has been made to prevent abuses or bring perpetrators to justice for the
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  Toward a conflict sensitive poverty reduction strategy: lessons from a retrospective analysis

  World Bank, 2005

  This report aims to determine how causes and consequences of violent conflict can best be addressed within a country’s poverty reduction program. It is based on a a retrospective analysis of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) experience in nine conflict affected countries namely, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH), Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Georgia, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.
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  Voices of the least developed countries of Asia and the Pacific: achieving the millennium development goals through a global partnership

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  This report reviews progress towards the MDGs within the 14 least developed countries (LDCs) of Asia and the Pacific. The 14 countries are Afghanistan, Lao PDR, Solomon Islands, Bangladesh, Maldives, Timor-Leste, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tuvalu, Cambodia, Nepal, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Samoa. It argues that the dynamism of Asia represents both a challenge and an opportunity.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper proposes a framework for measuring empowerment (ME) comprising three core concepts: agency, opportunity structure, and degree of empowerment. In this regard, it defines empowerment as a person’s capacity to transform choices into desired actions and outcomes.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  World Bank, 2005

  The definition of empowerment used in this paper is a person's capacity to make choices and transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes. The extent to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made).
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  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.

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