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  Farmers and plant breeders: an essential partnership for poverty reduction

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Farmers understand seeds and crop varieties, knowing how and when to use them. They are often willing to try out new varieties, but often plant breeding systems and the new seeds they produce do not reach farmers. In particular, resource-poor farmers in marginal areas rarely benefit from new high-yielding varieties.
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  Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

  Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005

  This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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  An overview of glaciers, glacier retreat, and subsequent impacts in Nepal, India and China

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This paper exposes the rate of retreat of Himalayan glaciers accelerating as global warming increases. The report states that glaciers in the region are now receding at an average rate of 10-15 metres per year. There are several problems associated with retreating glaciers that need to be understood in order to proceed to the next stage of quantifying research and mitigating disaster.
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  Gender, Conflict and Development

  World Bank, 2005

  This book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organised around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal framework, work, the rehabilitation of social services and community-driven development.
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  The problems with using complex analytical frameworks: lessons from Nepal

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Relationships between donors, international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and local partners are complex. They are usually defined by hierarchies and local partners have little control of the relationship. Rigid procedures such as logical frameworks establish forms of communication which exclude the voices of local communities.
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  Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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  Home-based workers: neglected by policy-makers and labour organisers?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Homeworkers are a flexible and cheap labour force and almost 80 percent of them are female. They are ‘invisible’ in the regular labour market and their interests and priorities are not at the forefront of political or labour organisations. It is difficult for them to demand higher wages, job security or improved working conditions.
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  On the same side – public-private partnerships in TB control

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Many developing country governments are struggling to control the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. Public-private partnerships are a practical way to increase TB control capacity and improve the quality of private sector care. Researchers from the UK Nuffield Institute for Health propose a process for developing new partnership models, using Bangladesh as an example.
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  Dreams & desires: sexual and reproductive health experiences of HIV positive women

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004

  This publication from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) explores the specific sexual and reproductive health issues facing HIV positive women.
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  Report on laws and legal procedures concerning the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Nepal

  End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, 2004

  This study examines domestic legislation and legal procedures Nepal as they relate to the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

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