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  Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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  Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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  Applying a participatory approach to energy planning

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Although energy is a significant concern for poor rural communities, participatory approaches often fail to identify it as an issue. Energy is vital to nearly every development activity and central to improving livelihoods. Yet development practitioners often fail to ask relevant questions at the needs assessment stage of participatory development project cycles.
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  In this generation: sexual and reproductive health policies for a youthful world

  Population Action International, 2002

  This report, produced by Population Action International, contrasts the way in which policies in Ghana, India, Iran, Mali, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United Sates have supported young people’s sexual and reproductive lives.
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  Culture matters: working with communities and faith-based organizations: case studies from country programmes

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This paper reports on efforts by UNFPA’s to develop culturally sensitive programming in the area of gender equity and equality, and reproductive health and rights.
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  Livelihoods approaches to information and communication in support of rural poverty elimination and food security

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2003

  This report looks at the of information in livelihoods, and makes recommendations on how agencies can capitalise on and integrate the best elements of traditional communication methods and the ICT revolution technologies within the livelihoods approach. Seven key recommendations were identified :
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  Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2003

  This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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  Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they seldom manage to cover their running costs.
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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  Knowledge flows and knowledge collectives: understanding the role of science and technology policies in development: volume 1: knowledge flows, innovation, and learning in developing countries

  Center for Science, Policy, & Outcomes, 2003

  This report is part one of a two volume set of papers from a number of CSPO scholars and is a project for the Global Inclusion Program of the Rockefeller Foundation.

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