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  Profile of internal displacement: Nepal

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2004

  This paper reports on information from the global internally displaced database (IDP), compiled by the Norwegian Refugee Council as of September 2004.
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  Doctor or midwife? Effectiveness of midwifery-led maternity care in Nepal

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Maternity services in Nepal are led by doctors, who supervise the work of midwives. The Patan Hospital Birthing Centre (BC) uses a different approach: midwives have sole responsibility for the care of women in low-risk labour. Researchers compare BC’s efficacy with that of the Hospital’s Consultant-Led Maternity Unit (CMU).
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  Seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal: a preliminary overview

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper discussesthe development of rapid appraisal mechanisms through an examination of seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal.
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  Poverty reduction, decentralization and community-based monitoring systems

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2003

  With a growing emphasis on good governance as a prerequisite to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there has been an accompanying pressure on governments to decentralise. Decentralisation has shifted greater responsibility to local government units to carry out policies and programs, brought with it greater demand for local level data.
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  Poverty in South Asia 2003: civil society perspectives

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequalities in South Asia, and claim that globalisation has generally further increased poverty in the region.
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  Understanding Nepal Maoists' demands: revisiting events of 1990

  Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003

  The Maoist insurgency which began in February 1996 is the major security challenge facing Nepal, having affected almost all the 75 districts of the country. The Maoists' core demands-an interim government, an elected Constituent Assembly to frame a new Constitution, a republican state-revolve around issues which seemed to have been settled in the 1990 Constitution.
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  Local government initiative: pro-poor infrastructure and service delivery in Asia

  United Nations Capital Development Fund, 2004

  This publication includes a synthesis of case studies that focus on the experiences of innovation in improving Infrastructure and service delivery (ISD) through rural local governments (LGs), and their outcomes, in three Asian countries: Nepal, Bangladesh, and Cambodia and also in Uganda. Bangladesh: Local Governance & Service Delivery to the Poor, which outlines lessons on the scope for
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  Intercountry collaboration for improving surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases: final report of EHP support in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal

  Environmental Health Project, 2004

  This report from the Environmental Health Project (EHP) documents a programme for improving surveillance and control of malaria, Japanese encephalitis (JE), and kala-azar. The programme involved bilateral and regional co-operation between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal.
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  An inventory on malaria drug resistance in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal

  Environmental Health Project, 2004

  This inventory from the Environmental Health Project (EHP) documents information on drug resistant malaria in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN). Findings show that high-risk Bangladesh has a defined strategy for early diagnosis and treatment, and is attempting to monitor drug resistance.
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  An ounce of prevention: the failure of G8 policy on armed conflict

  World Vision, 2004

  This report attempts to catalogue the human, social and economic costs of conflict in sixteen different countries and recommend changes that will help prevent future conflicts.

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