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  Toward a conflict sensitive poverty reduction strategy: lessons from a retrospective analysis

  World Bank, 2005

  This report aims to determine how causes and consequences of violent conflict can best be addressed within a country’s poverty reduction program. It is based on a a retrospective analysis of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) experience in nine conflict affected countries namely, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH), Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Georgia, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.
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  One in two: children are the key to Africa’s future

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report makes the case for investment in children as the key to breaking Africa’s cycle of poverty.
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  Fighting poverty to build a safer world: a strategy for security and development

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This document sets out a strategy to show how the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID), through its commitment to fighting poverty, can help tackle insecurity among the poor. It explains the Department's approach to the complex but important connections between security and development.
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  Migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa. It identifies the importance of migration to the poor, discusses migration policies, key issues and policy gaps in each country, as well as the region as a whole.
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  Migration and pro-poor policy in Africa

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper reports on the findings of a survey on migration and pro-poor policy in Africa.
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  Fragile states: defining difficult environments for poverty reduction

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), presents a working definition of difficult environments that is both linked to the wider debate about fragile states but at the same time focuses the challenge on donor-recipient relationships for poverty reduction.
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  Why we need to work more effectively in fragile states

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper lays out DfID’s commitment to working more effectively in fragile states.
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  Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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  World Youth Report 2005

  United Nations [UN] Programme on Youth, 2005

  This report presents an overview of the global situation of young people.The report highlights the following issues: the impact of globalisation on young women and men; the use of and access to ICTs; the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people; the active involvement of young people in armed conflict, both as victims and as perpetrators; and the increased importance of addressing intergenerational
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  State of the world's children 2005: childhood under threat

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This year’s report analyses the violations of children’s rights, focusing on the three areas of childhood poverty; conflict; and HIV/AIDS.The report finds that millions of children are severely deprived of nutrition, water, sanitation facilities, access to basic health-care services, shelter, education and information.

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