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    Mainstreaming Gender in Mountain Development - From Policy to Practice : Lessons learned from a gender assessment of four projects implemented in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    Mountain communities meet the numerous challenges inherent in living in a mountain environment with an array of livelihood strategies. Surviving in an inhospitable environment requires strong collaboration between the members of a community; however, little attention has been paid historically to the role of women in mountain livelihoods.
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    Towards gender equality with care-sensitive social protection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    This policy briefing argues that unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls' uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these essential provisions can help alleviate the drudgery and burden that unpaid care work places upon them.
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    2015 and beyond: Action for a just, gender-equitable and sustainable future

    CARE International, 2014
    This briefing paper argues that gender inequality is one of the most widespread and persistent barriers to social justice and that climate change amplifies the risks faced by people who are already poor and marginalised, with widespread negative consequences primarily for women and girls, and for society as a whole.
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    Women and poverty: salient findings from a gendered analysis of a quasi-anthropological study in rural Punjab and Sindh

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2004
    The report is an analysis based on a qualitative investigation of poverty in Pakistan by means of in-depth studies of six villages in six different agro-ecological zones in Punjab and Sindh.
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    The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014

    UN, 2014
    Fourteen years ago, the Millennium Declaration articulated a bold vision and established concrete targets for improving the existence of many and for saving the lives of those threatened by disease and hunger. There has been important progress across all goals, with some targets already having been met well ahead of the 2015 deadline.
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    The work-life conflict and well-being of Turkish employees

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    This study aims to produce empirical evidence on the impact of over-and underemployment on the life satisfaction of Turkish employees with a primary interest in female workers.
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    Too young to wed: the growing problem of child marriage among Syrian girls in Jordan

    International Save the Children Alliance, 2014
    War in Syria has killed more than 10,000 children. More than 1 million more have fled the country in fear, while millions more remain displaced inside the country. This briefing looks at another disturbing but less publicised impact of the crisis: the increase inthe numbers of girls who have been forced to marry.
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    Will Africa benefit from a demographic dividend?

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2012
    Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind other regions in terms of fertility change and the period of declining dependency ratios lies largely in the future. This paper considers what is needed for Africa to convert favourable demographic change into a major economic opportunity.
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    Looking at conditions of persons with disability in Metro Manila

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009
    The need to understand the conditions of persons with disability (PWD) is not only linked with Philippines' aim to reduce poverty and adhere to the goals stated in the 2000 Millennium Declaration but also and, more importantly, with the goal to improve the lives of PWDs in the long run. 
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    Where are the poor employed? Profiling the working poor

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    Inclusive growth is one of the most popular topics nowadays in economic and development discourses about the Philippines partly because it remains an elusive goal for the country. One of the primary reasons for the non-inclusivity of economic growth and thus the persistence of poverty in the Philippines is the lack of productive employment.

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