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    The Impact Tool box: a tool box for impact monitoring and evaluation of savings and credit programme

    NGO Impact on Development, Empowerment and Actions, 2007
    The NGO-IDEAS impact tool box was developed to support NGOs working in the area of savings and credit, in the context of South India. The approach is based on some principles that can applied in other contexts.
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    Mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into development planning: a handbook for practitioners

    UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative, 2009
    Poverty-environment mainstreaming is the process that aims at integrating the linkages between the environment and poverty reduction processes and institutions. This handbook has been designed to provide step-by-step guidance on how governments and other national actors can mainstream poverty-environment linkages into national development planning.
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    Weathering the storm: participatory risk assessment for informal settlements

    PreventionWeb, 2008
    Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range of municipal and development professionals and practitioners. It is also relevant to professionals involved in housing, social development, health, adult education, CBOs and NGOs.
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    Applying a rights-based approach : an inspirational guide for civil society

    The Danish Institute for Human Rights, 2007
    Rights-based development starts from the ethical position that all people are entitled to a certain standard in terms of material and spiritual wellbeing. It takes the side of people who suffer injustice by acknowledging their equal worth and dignity; it removes the charity dimension of development by emphasising rights and responsibilities.
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    Social analysis sourcebook: incorporating social dimensions into bank-supported projects

    World Bank, 2003
    Understanding the social world in which the World Bank’s investment projects operate is critical to any effort to reduce poverty. The World Bank undertakes social analysis in connection with its lending program in order to determine the suitability of the program for World Bank financing.
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    Method finder practitoners guide: social inclusion

    MethodFinder, 2008
    Deep-rooted power relations as well as socio-cultural institutions that enable or constrain human interaction lie at the core of social exclusion.
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    The practitioners' guide to the Household Economy Approach

    International Save the Children Alliance, 2008
    The Household Economy Approach (HEA) is a livelihoods-based framework for analysing the way people obtain access to the things they need to survive and prosper. It helps determine people’s food and non-food needs and identify appropriate means of assistance, whether short-term emergency assistance or longer term development programmes or policy changes.
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    Turning rhetoric into action: building effective partnerships to combat extreme poverty and exclusion

    ATD Fourth World, 2008
    In order to tackle the persistent and increasing problem of poverty, it is necessary to concentrate on more than just economic growth or the improvement of social or welfare services. A partnership approach to tackling poverty is also needed. The best informed experts on poverty are those who face it on a daily basis.
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    Gender in agriculture sourcebook

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
    This extensive resource provides guidance for the development of rural agricultural strategies that effectively promote gender equality and women's empowerment and reduce poverty.   The Sourcebook is the outcome of a collaboration between the World Bank, The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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    Market assessment toolkit for vocational training providers and youth linking vocational training programmes to market opportunities in Northern Uganda

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2008
    Vocational training is at the intersection of economic recovery, education and rehabilitation and reintegration. It is uniquely positioned to meet the demands of youth and broader goals of economic reconstruction in post-conflict areas. This three-part toolkit aims to help youth in Vocational Training (VT) programs to find employment/self-employment based on market demand.

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