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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods health and HIV in India

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    Recognising diversity: disability and rural livelihoods approaches in India

    Overseas Development Institute, 2001
    How can livelihoods approaches better accommodate diversity in general, and in particular people with disabilities? What specific policy measures would support the livelihoods of people with disabilities? This paper explores how livelihoods-based approaches can improve access by the disabled to resources and entitlements.
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    Livelihood risk from HIV in semi-arid tropics of rural Andhra Pradesh

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    This paper discusses the livelihood dynamics in the fragile landscape of the semi arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh. The area is home to the poorest of the poor who live in conditions of persistent drought, subsistence agriculture and poor access to markets.
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    HIV/ AIDS and women: a module for women's self help groups

    Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal, UNIFEM, 2006
    This toolkit aims to enable women to explore the issues of HIV/AIDS from the standpoint of personal experiences and to encourage the ownership of the process of engaging with factors which increase their vulnerability to HIV, thereby enhancing the community’s willingness to cope.
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    Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health programme for urban slum dwellers in India

    Population Council, USA, 2005
    This paper describes a pilot livelihood activities and reproductive health intervention and its impact aimed at adolescent girls aged 14-19 living in urban slums in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The project was initiated based on the recognition of the relative disadvantage of adolescent girls and in an effort to build the evidence base for adolescent livelihoods programmes.
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    The black sheep of Rajasthan

    GRAIN, 2004
    The Raika are a large pastoralist community predominantly found in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, India, and are one of the largest groups of livestock herders in India, living in the semi-arid areas around the Thar Desert.
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    Childhood poverty in Rajasthan: a review of literature

    Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004
    This paper reviews the literature on childhood poverty in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Designed to inform future primary research in the state, it examines the effects of poverty on children, analyses the relationship between livelihoods and childhood poverty and wellbeing, and identifies some of the mechanisms by which poverty is transferred across generations.