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An Phu integrated community development project: final evaluation phase 1: 2000 - 2004
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005This report presents the main findings of the final evaluation of the first phase of the An Phu integrated community development project.DocumentSpecial evaluation study on small-scale freshwater rural aquaculture development for poverty reduction
Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2004Linking aquaculture development approaches to viable livelihood opportunities for the rural poor remains a challenge. The poor face many constraints to participation in aquaculture, primarily due to a lack of access to capital and resources, vulnerability, and aversion to risks.DocumentTackling poverty-migration linkages: evidence from Ghana and Egypt
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2005This paper presents a quantitative analysis exploring whether the very poorest in a community are unlikely to migrate due to the high transaction costs associated with migration.DocumentTargeting effectiveness of CFPR/TUP in scale-up environment
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006Experience from many development interventions shows that unless the programme is designed and targetted specifically for the poorest, they will either be missed or they will exclude themselves.DocumentLessons from an integrated approach to poverty reduction in Mexico
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006The Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (PROGRESA) was launched in the 1990s to improve the well-being of Mexico’s poorest people. It targets 2.6 million families – one in nine Mexican families – and combines health, education and nutrition projects. As similar programmes are being implemented elsewhere, lessons can be learned from evaluation of Mexico’s programme.DocumentGrowing up in Asia: Plan's strategic framework for fighting poverty in Asia 2005-2015
Plan, 2005This report discusses the future environment children in Asia will grow up in from 2005 - 2015.DocumentPublic spending, pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Tunisia: a multilevel analysis
Social Science Research Network, 2005This paper aims to assess to what extent public spending contributes to enhanced economic growth and poverty reduction in Tunisia. The authors use a multilevel analysis approach to capture the likely effects of some public expenditure on pro-poor growth.DocumentMainstreaming children into national poverty strategies: a child-focused analysis of the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programe (2002-05)
Young Lives, 2005This paper assesses how the needs of children are incorporated into Ethiopia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), known as the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programme 2002-2005 (SDRDP), and to develop policy recommendations for the second PRSP based on a comparative content analysis with other countries’ PRSPs.The paper identifies key components of a child-centreDocumentThe formation of risk sharing networks
Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005This paper examines the endogenous formation of risk sharing networks in the rural Philippines. The authors aim to show that geographic proximity is a major determinant of interpersonal relationships, and find little evidence that people form relationships to pool income risk.DocumentReviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme
Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.Pages