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  Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth: insights and lessons from country experiences

  World Bank, 2007

  How do growth strategies affect the ability of poor households to participate in and benefit from growth? This book explores how country policies and conditions interact to reduce poverty and to spread the benefits of growth across different income groups. It provides insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth.
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  Shell: use your profits to clean up your mess - report on how Shell should fund local solutions for environmental and social destruction caused by its projects

  Friends of the Earth International, 2007

  This report presents nine cases of socially and environmentally problematic projects in which Shell is involved. Each case contains concrete proposals and demands detailing how these problems can be addressed.
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  Engaging boys and men to empower girls: reflections from practice and evidence of impact

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2006

  This text reflects on the ways boys are socialized to see girls and women as sexually subservient.
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  Child labour in the Latin America and Caribbean Region: a gender based analysis

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2006

  This study examines the child labour phenomenon in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region from a gender perspective.
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  Education for participatory democracy promotes social reform in Brazil

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Although there is near universal agreement on the importance of human rights, many people in both rich and poor countries remain socially excluded. They may have the formal status of citizens without being able to practise effective citizenship. How can education encourage active political participation to help bring about social justice for all?
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  UNDP and civil society organisations: a toolkit for strengthening partnerships

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  This toolkit is aimed at providing practical guidance and essential information in forging partnerships with civil society organisations (CSOs).
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  Pushing tobacco control up the development agenda

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  The adverse health effects of tobacco use are well known. Tobacco kills around 5 million people each year and remains the leading cause of preventable death worldwide.
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  Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women and Adolescent Girls Living with HIV: Research Report on Qualitative Findings from Brazil, Ethiopia and the Ukraine

  United Nations Population Fund, 2006

  Despite the growing magnitude of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, health interventions that focus on providing care and treatment for HIV positive women have come at a slow pace. Most women do not know their HIV status until they become pregnant and are tested as a part of antenatal care.
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  The formation of the Brazilian environmental movement

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  Drawing on new perspectives for analysing social movements, this paper blends a variety of concepts – political opportunity structure, micro-mobilisation contexts, collective identity formation, framing processes and mobilising strategies – to examine the formation of the Brazilian environmental movement from the 1970s through to the 1990s.
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  Tourism and sustainability in Brazil: the tourism value chain in Porto de Galinhas, Northeast Brazil

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006

  How can financial ‘leakages’ from tourism be limited in order to maximise the value for local economic development? This report maps the value chain of tourism in Brazil, and in a case study of Porto de Galinhas, a small village in Brazil’s northeast, to identify leakages and sustainability issues in the tourism industry.

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