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  The climate of poverty: facts, fears and hope

  Christian Aid, 2006

  Tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa could die of disease directly attributable to climate change, is the main finding of this NGO report.
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  Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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  Including disabled people in water and sanitation initiatives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The link between disability and poverty is clear: two thirds of the world’s disabled people live in low-income communities, with most in rural areas. Water and sanitation facilities are considered basic needs and are central to global development. Yet programmes and service providers continue to ignore the needs of disabled people.
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  Facing up to climate change in South Asia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of the likely impacts of climate change on three of the least developed countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. In these countries, climate change effects will include changes in temperature, distribution of rainfall, sea-level rise, and an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.
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  The reality of integrating gender into transport policies and projects

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Donor agencies and national governments have increasingly expressed their commitment to promoting gender equality in all areas of their work. This has included efforts to integrate gender into the work of the transport sector. However, a substantial gap between rhetoric and practice exists.
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  Participatory biodiversity conservation in the South Asia region : proceedings of Regional Networking Seminar and Second General Assembly : February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2001

  This report documents the keynote presentations of the South Asian Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Forum in February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal.The themes of the working papers include:participatory biodiversity conservation in the traditional farming systems of Kerala, southern Indiabiodiversity resource management in Bangladesh with special emphasis on ricelandscape biodiv
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  Bangladesh: Boosting food security for poor farmers: Netrakona integrated agricultural production and water management project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2004

  This document presents the key findings of the evaluation of an integrated agricultural production and water management project implemented by IFAD in Netrakona district, in northern Bangladesh.
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  Tanguar Haor wetland biodiversity conservation project: an appraisal

  Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2001

  An appraisal of the project proposal Tanguar Haor Wetland Biodiversity to confirm whether the project can successfully and practically apply and achieve its aims.Tanguar Haor Wetland, north east Bangladesh, was declared an ecologically critical area by the Bangladeshi government in 1999.
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.

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