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    Recognising Rights, Promoting Progress: The global impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010
    This report sets out some examples of the impact CEDAW has had around the world, focusing on case studies where CEDAW’s ratification and implementation has led to concrete changes in the opportunities afforded to women and girls. The case studies are grouped into four main areas: • Ending violence and trafficking in women and girls
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.
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    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
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    Global Corruption Report 2007

    Transparency International, 2007
    This year’s report concentrates on judicial systems and warns that corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world, denying citizens access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial. The report provides comparative analysis of judicial corruption based on 32 country reports and provides
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    Composting: a win-win way to reduce urban waste?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Sustainable management of urban waste is a major challenge for municipal authorities. Much urban waste is biodegradable and recyclable. A large proportion consists of organic matter that can be recycled into compost for urban agriculture. Promising new composting techniques are available but planners must learn why previous projects have failed.
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    Linking farmers to markets

    Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2006
    This website/page presents a selection of brief case studies of ways in which small-scale farmers in developing countries have linked with markets, through their own efforts and with assistance from others.
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    Making city growth work for poor people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Do poor people benefit from urban economic growth and if so, how? Conventional theory suggests that almost everyone should gain from economic growth. Eventually that growth should trickle down even to very poor people. In practice, however, the process has brought mixed results. The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is more complex.
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    Poor people speak up to impact urban governance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    For millions of people in developing country cities the informal sector provides the principal source of income. The relationship between city governance and informal traders is generally complex. Conventional legislation affecting the traders has often been inappropriate and has had detrimental effects on their livelihoods.
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    Urban governance and access to basic services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In many developing country cities poor people suffer from insecure and over-crowded housing as well as inadequate access to water and sanitation. Municipal governments play a primary role these areas, but often fail to provide basic services. As a consequence, poor people have explored informal ways of gaining access to water, land and shelter.

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