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  Health service delivery in post-conflict states

  High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2005

  This background paper for the High Level Forum on Health MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) examines the challenge of investing in the development of health services in post-conflict countries. It outlines a number of problems, including poor information; knowledge gaps; uncertain financial, political and administrative future; and uncertain external support.
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  How to make poverty history: the central role of local organisations in meeting the MDGs

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  With a particular focus on the Millennium Development Goals Funds, this book highlights the fact that local institutions matter to development.
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  Sanitation is a business: approaches for demand-oriented policies

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This brochure summarises a number of case studies showing that sanitation can be a viable business.
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  Community-driven development for water and sanitation in urban areas

  Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, 2005

  This booklet presents a number of community-led initiatives to improve and extend provision for water and sanitation to low-income urban households and discusses their relevance for meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for water and sanitation.At the core of most initiatives described in this booklet is the possibility for urban poor groups and their organizations to influence wha
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  Ensuring that the Millennium Development Goals address structural injustice

  Trocaire, 2005

  This paper outlines and lauds the aims of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but also highlights that the adoption of the goals also brings some serious risks. The MDGs have been rapidly elevated to the status of "ultimate solution" in international development policy-making.
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  Campaigning toolkit for civil society organisations engaged in the Millenium Development Goals

  CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2004

  This manual is targeted at civil society organisations campaigning to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and provides them with a framework and a starting point in developing their campaign strategy.
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  Focus on human rights and gender justice: linking the Millennium Development Goals with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action

  United Nations [UN] Non-Governmental Liaison Service, 2005

  This paper aims at showing the interlinkages between the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasise that the MDGs must be developed further from the perspective of human rights, poverty eradication and the empowerment of women.The paper begins with a critical examination of CEDAW, the BFPA, and the MDGs.
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  How important are difficult environments to achieving the MDGs

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This working paper, published by the Department for International Development, argues that countries defined as "difficult environments” are the single biggest challenge to the MDGs and to the elimination of poverty.
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  Global Governance Initiative Annual Report 2005

  World Economic Forum, 2005

  The second annual report of the Global Governance Initiative provides comprehensive analysis of the world's progress towards realising the UN's Millennium Declaration Goals. It measure progress in the following 5 areas: Peace and security, poverty and hunger, education, HIV/AIDS, environment, human rights and .
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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.

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