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  Mothers’ meetings: reducing neonatal mortality in Nepal

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for maternal and child mortality has faltered. Most neonatal deaths happen at home and are avoidable. But healthcare systems have trouble reaching poor rural residents. In rural Nepal, participatory women’s groups are reducing neonatal mortality by 30 percent.
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  Assessing the impacts of energy projects on rural communities

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Projects exist in many developing countries to improve the supply of energy to rural communities. There will often be benefits to people other than an improved supply of energy. These impacts are not always recognised or understood, however. A greater awareness of these could help planners to develop energy projects that are more suitable to the needs of local people.
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  How irrigation can benefit people in South Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Irrigated agriculture can make an important contribution to food security, improved nutrition and rural prosperity. For most rural regions of low-income countries, there are no alternatives to agriculture-led growth. Irrigation can be an effective way of promoting growth and reducing poverty. Whilst competition for water is often fierce, agriculture should not be a low priority.
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  NORAD fellowship programme magazine 2004

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  The NORAD fellowship programme magazine provides an insight into the 40 year history of the programme, featuring the present developments for 2004.This edition of the NORAD fellowship programme magazine contains the following features:knowledge is the future - life as a Zambian student in Norwayfrom development aid to knowledge exchange - the history of the fellowship programme
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  Helping hands or shackled lives? Understanding child domestic labour and responses to it

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This report analyses the causes and impacts of child domestic labour, and looks at the actions that are being taken to respond to it.
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  A pilot study on pesticide use, acute symptoms and willingness to pay for safer pesticides in a commercial area, Nepal

  GDNet document store, 2004

  This paper reports the results of a pilot study carried out during 2004 which aimed to determine farmers’ willingness to pay for safer pesticides to reduce health risk from the periodic exposure to the pesticides.
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  Inventory of poverty and impact monitoring (PIM) approaches in Nepal (Background paper)

  Regional Conference on Poverty Monitoring in Asia, 2004

  This paper examines the current status of poverty in Nepal, and focuses on approaches to poverty and/or impact monitoring as well plans for PRSP monitoring.
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  Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, generates and analyses survey data on inequalities in child mortality in Brazil, Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa and Viet Nam.
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  Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in the poorest communities

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This article from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) asserts that current safe motherhood and newborn care programmes, which emphasise skilled attendance and institutional delivery, are failing to reach the poorest populations. This is because the poorest mothers are more likely to deliver at home than in a health facility.
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  Poverty, livestock, and household typologies in Nepal

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper examines Nepal’s economic stagnation in the fact of global economic growth. This paper aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the features that characterise the poor in Nepal and to determine the role livestock plays in and for the household’s income and income sources.

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