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2007 Archive of resources added
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Agriculture
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08 Nov 2007: Gender checklist: agriculture (ADB)
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08 Nov 2007: Developing rural communities in marginal & rainfed areas: Philippines (AusAID)
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08 Nov 2007: Pathways to improving livelihoods in the uplands in Laos (Charles Sturt Univ)
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08 Nov 2007: Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture: the Asian experience (IWMI,CGIAR)
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08 Nov 2007: Animal health policy & practice: scaling-up community-based animal health systems (FAO)
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08 Nov 2007: Participatory farm management methods for analysis, decision making & communication (FAO)
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08 Nov 2007: Targeting food aid in emergencies
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08 Nov 2007: Contract farming in Indonesia: Smallholders and agribusiness working together (ACIAR)
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08 Nov 2007: Politics & the future of ministries of agriculture: rethinking roles (Agriculture Futures)
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08 Nov 2007: World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development (World Bank)
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22 Oct 2007: Improved trade in mangoes from the Philippines, Thailand and Australia (ACIAR)
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22 Oct 2007: Growing trees on salt-affected land (ACIAR)
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22 Oct 2007: Adoption of ACIAR project outputs (ACIAR)
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22 Oct 2007: Integrated rural development, Indonesia (ACIAR)
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22 Oct 2007: Guidelines for surveillance for plant pests in Asia & the Pacific (Indonesian) (ACIAR)
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22 Oct 2007: Gardens of Oceania (ACIAR)
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02 Oct 2007: Policies & practices for securing & improving access to land (Int'l Conference on Agrarian Reform)
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02 Oct 2007: Customary land titling in Vietnam (World Bank)
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02 Oct 2007: Land tenure reform and gender equality (UNRISD)
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02 Oct 2007: Recognition of customary land in the Solomon Islands: status, issues & options (RSPAS)
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30 Aug 2007: China's organic revolution (Journal of Organic systems)
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30 Aug 2007: Upland rice, household food security & commercialization of upland agriculture in Vietnam (IRRI)
- 13 July 2007: Tropical forages database
Development Practice / Effectiveness
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20 Dec 2007: Africa Development Indicators 2007 (World Bank)
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20 Dec 2007: Asian models for aid: a non-Western approach (Chancellor Michelsen Inst)
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25 Oct 2007: Valuing unexpected outcomes: A case study of an Indonesian training project (HAI)
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25 Oct 2007: Theories of change: a tipping point for development impact? (HAI)
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25 Oct 2007: Gender and governance in China: turning the rhetoric into practice (HAI)
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18 Oct 2007: Unfinished state: drivers of change in Vanuatu
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18 Oct 2007: Ideas for working with girls (IWTC)
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18 Oct 2007: Detours abroad (Detours Abraod)
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18 Oct 2007: Antipodeans abroad (Antipodeans Abroad)
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18 Oct 2007: Gender responsive budgeting in practice: a training manual (UNIFEM)
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18 Oct 2007: ANCP India Cluster Evaluation (AusAID)
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18 Oct 2007: The elderly and social protection in Thailand (Global Development Network)
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16 Oct 2007: The Millennium Development Goals: progress in Asia and the Pacific 2007 (ADB)
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16 Oct 2007: Aceh: post-conflict complications (International Crisis Group)
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16 Oct 2007: The European Community's development policy - Annual Report 2007 (EU)
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16 Oct 2007: Multi-donor support to civil society (Forum on the Future of Aid)
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16 Oct 2007: Joint evaluation study of provision of technical assistance personnel (AusAID)
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11 Oct 2007: Motivation
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11 Oct 2007: Capacity development in the international development context: Indigenous Australia (ANU
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04 Oct 2007: Assessment of the Indonesia country program strategy 2003-2006 (AusAID)
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04 Oct 2007: Learning from the poor: findings from participatory poverty assessments in India (ADB)
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04 Oct 2007: How to build M&E systems to support better government (World Bank)
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02 Oct 2007: Greater Mekong: Australia's strategy to promote integration & cooperation 2007-11(AusAID)
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10 Sep 2007: Getting evidence into practice: what works in developing countries?
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10 Sep 2007: Can we achieve health information for all by 2015?
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10 Sep 2007: Budgeting with women in mind
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10 Sep 2007: Key indicators 2007: inequality in Asia
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10 Sep 2007: Building a dynamic future: IMT-GT roadmap for development
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13 Jul 2007: Red Plough International
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13 Jun 2007: Technical assistance and capacity building: Timor-Leste (AusAID)
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13 Jun 2007: Preparing national strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
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31 May 2007: Disability at a glance: a profile of 28 countries and areas in Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
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31 May 2007: Aid architecture: main trends in official development assistance flows (World Bank)
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18 May 2007: AusAID 2010: Director general's blueprint (AusAID)
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19 Mar 2007: Network Learning (Network Learning)
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20 Feb 2007: Youth and the millennium development goals: challenges and opportunities for implementation (UN)
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20 Feb 2007: Migration and the remittance euphoria: development or dependency? (New Economics Foundation)
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20 Feb 2007: Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships (UNIFEM)
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20 Feb 2007: Globalisation, economic policy and employment: poverty and gender implications (ILO)
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20 Feb 2007: Using soft system methodology to support monitoring & evaluation (AID-IT)
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20 Feb 2007: Addressing attribution through contribution analysis:using performance measures (OAG)
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20 Feb 2007: Reporting on outcomes: setting performance expectations (OAG - Canada)
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20 Feb 2007: Contribution analysis: a new approach to evaluation in international development (AES)
- 18 Jan 2007: Indonesia country gender assessment (UNDP)
- 18 Jan 2007: Sector wide approaches (UNFPA)
- 15 Jan 2007: The concept of capacity (ECDPM)
- 15 Jan 2007: Monitoring and evaluation of capacity and capacity development (ECDPM)
- 15 Jan 2007: Study on capacity, change and performance: Interim report (ECDPM)
- 11 Jan 2007: A brief review of 20 tools to assess institutional capacity (UNDP)
- 11 Jan 2007: Capacity assessment practice note (UNDP)
- 11 Jan 2007: Capacity development practice note (UNDP)
- 11 Jan 2007: Measuring capacities: an illustrative guide to benchmarks and indicators (UNDP)
Disaster Management
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22 Oct 2007: Impact of the tsunami response on local and national capacities (IFRC)
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22 Oct 2007: Disaster risk management: contributions by German development cooperation (BMZ)
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22 Oct 2007: The macro financing of natural hazards in developing countries (World Bank)
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22 Oct 2007: Australian Emergency Veterinary Plan (Animal Health Australia)
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18 Oct 2007: Remittances during crises: implication for humanitarian response (HPG)
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04 Oct 2007: Cash-transfer programming in emergencies (Oxfam)
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18 Sep 2007: Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
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18 Sep 2007: Maldives Disaster Management Centre
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13 Jul 2007: Sahana
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13 Jun 2007: Tools for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction
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13 Jun 2007: Natural disaster relief and recovery arrangements: community recovery package guidelines
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05 Jun 2007: Cash-based responses in emergencies
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31 May 2007: US Holocaust Memorial Museum & Google Earth
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31 May 2007: Emergency preparedness capacity builders
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31 May 2007: Report on impacts of April 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake and tsunami disaster (Terracircle)
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18 May 2007: The preparation of volunteers for deployment in emergencies
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18 May 2007: Disaster resilience through local economic activity in Phuket
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18 May 2007: New Zealand's holistic framework for disaster recovery
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20 Feb 2007: Global disaster alert and coordination system (JRC & OCHA)
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24 Jan 2007: Being prepared to go on assignment (RedR)
Education
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16 Oct 2007: IF Development Praxis Award 2007 (Indigo Foundation)
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16 Oct 2007: Analysis of international data on the impact of private schooling: Hyderabad, India (NFER)
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16 Oct 2007: The progress of school education in India (ESRC Global Poverty Research Group)
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16 Oct 2007: IWC Water Leadership Scholarships (IWC)
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11 Oct 2007: Alice Springs Town Council: community grants (Alice Springs Town Council)
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13 July 2007: Decentralisation in education: national policies and practices (UNESCO)
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13 July 2007: Teaching languages in primary schools: examples from current practice (AEF)
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13 July 2007: Financing education: perspectives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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13 July 2007: Demand-side financing in education (UNESCO)
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05 June 2007: Better Education: a policy for Australian development assistance in education (AusAID)
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05 June 2007: PNG curriculum reform implementation project (AusAID)
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24 Jan 2007: Education for All: a gender and disability perspective (UNESCO)
- 24 Jan 2007: Gender and ethnicity in the context of equality and access in Lao education (UNESCO Bangkok)
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24 Jan 2007: The state of the teachers in Asia and the Pacific (UNESCO Bangkok)
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24 Jan 2007: Education For All mid-decade assessment meeting report (UNESCO Bangkok)
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24 Jan 2007: Using social transfers to scale up equitable access to education and health services (DFID)
Enterprise Development / Microfinance
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20 Dec 2007: Low-income households' access to financial services: international experience, measures for improvement (ADB)
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22 Oct 2007: Microfinance: a platform for social change (Grameen Foundation)
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22 Oct 2007: Surviving disasters and supporting recovery: a guidebook for microfinance institutions (World Bank)
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17 Oct 2007: The long term benefits of MED in a developed country
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17 Oct 2007: The role of NGOs in microfinance
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04 Oct 2007: What is the relationship between financial development & economic growth in China? (UNU-WIDER)
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04 Oct 2007: Beyond good intentions: measuring the social performance of microfinance institutions (CGAP)
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18 May 2007: Microfinance and gender equality: are we getting there?
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18 May 2007: Access to financial services in Nepal
Environment
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20 Dec 2007: The Global Environment Outlook 4: Environment for Development (UNEP)
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20 Dec 2007: State of the World's Forests 2007 (FAO)
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20 Dec 2007: A climate of conflict: the links between climate change, peace and war (International Alert)
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20 Dec 2007: Moving toward a consensus on climate policy: the essential role of global public disclosure (Center for Global Development)
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20 Dec 2007: The age of consequences: foreign policy & national security implications of global climate change (CSIS)
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20 Dec 2007: UNDP Human Development Report 2007: fighting climate change (UNDP)
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11 Oct 2007: Managing the environmental impact of energy use: the role of emissions trading (PECC)
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22 Aug 2007: Climate change: a global & development issue
- 22 Aug 2007: Aid and the environment: building resilience, sustaining growth
- 22 Aug 2007: Asia-Pacific partnership on clean development & climate
- 22 Aug 2007: Guidelines for incorporating biodiversity into environmental impact assessment
- 22 Aug 2007: Ecosystem management lessons from around the world
- 22 Aug 2007: Exploring biological diversity, environment and local perspectives in forest landscapes
- 22 Aug 2007: Participatory forest management & poverty reduction: a review of the evidence
- 22 Aug 2007: Communities, livelihoods & natural resources: action research & policy change in Asia
- 22 Aug 2007: Guide to city development strategies:improving urban performance
- 22 Aug 2007: Trends in sustainable development: atmosphere & air pollution
- 22 Aug 2007: The contribution of aquatic ecosystems and fisheries to food security and livelihoods
- 22 Aug 2007: Prioritising research on inland aquatic ecosystems
- 22 Aug 2007: Guidelines for indigenous participation in natural resource management
- 22 Aug 2007: Partnership for action 2006 booklet (Asia-Pacific partnership on clean development & climate)
- 22 Aug 2007: The impact of sea level rise on developing countries: a comparative analysis (World Bank)
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22 Aug 2007: Climate change 2007: impacts, adaptation & vulnerability (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Governance
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20 Dec 2007: The new role of corporate leadership in global development (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
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20 Dec 2007: Finance for all? Policies and pitfalls in expanding access (World Bank)
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20 Dec 2007: World Trade Report 2007: Six decades of multilateral trade cooperation: what have we learnt? (WTO)
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20 Dec 2007: Assessing donor anti-corruption initiatives in support of private sector development (U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre)
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20 Dec 2007: Performance accountability and combating corruption (World Bank)
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25 Oct 2007: Global forum explores why corruption is still blocking the way (HAI)
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18 Oct 2007: UN East Timor independent electoral certification team reports (UNMIT)
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18 Oct 2007: The BRIDGE Project (Bridge)
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16 Oct 2007: How does taxation affect the quality of governance? (IDS)
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16 Oct 2007: Paying for people: financing the skilled workers needed to deliver health & education services (Oxfam)
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16 Oct 2007: Equality at work: tackling the challenge (ILO)
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09 Oct 2007: Doing Business 2008 (World Bank)
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02 Oct 2007: Australia's Mine Action Activities 2006-2007 (AusAID)
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10 Sep 2007: Addressing the problem of cross-border child trafficking
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30 Aug 2007: Converging currents: custom & human rights in the Pacific (Law Commission NZ)
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13 June 2007: The new international architecture in trade and investment: current status and implications
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13 June 2007: Making trade policy in a new democracy after a deep crisis: Indonesia
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13 June 2007: Private sector lessons for public sector reform in Indonesia
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05 June 2007: Strengthening World Bank Group engagement on governance and anti-corruption (World Bank)
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05 June 2007: Human rights and business learning tool (UNSSC)
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05 June 2007: Tackling corruption for growth and development (AusAID)
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31 May 2007: Measuring corruption (OPM)
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31 May 2007: Education, corruption and growth in developing countries (University of Paris)
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31 May 2007: The impact of regulation on economic growth in developing countries: a cross-country analysis (Science direct)
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31 May 2007: Making fiscal space happen: managing fiscal policy in a world of scaled-up aid (IMF)
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31 May 2007: Power shift: do we need better global economic institutions? (IPPR)
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31 May 2007: Making trade agreements relevant for poor countries (Brookings Institute)
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31 May 2007: Policy space: are WTO rules preventing development? (ODI)
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31 May 2007: Migration, trade, capital and development: substitutes, complements and policies (Yale University)
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31 May 2007: Globalization and the environment: why all the fuss?
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19 Mar 2007: Critical issues in fiscal decentralisation (ADB)
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20 Feb 2007: Criminal justice assessment toolkit (UN)
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20 Feb 2007: 12th International Anti-corruption Conference 2006: speeches and papers (IACC)
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20 Feb 2007: Corruption and anti-corruption (ANU)
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20 Feb 2007: Provincial business environment scorecard in Cambodia (Asia Foundation)
- 18 Dec 2007: Bougainville and the discovery of slowness (acpacs - Uni of Queensland)
- 18 Dec 2007: At home and away: expanding job opportunities for Pacific Islanders through labour mobility (World Bank)
Health
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06 Dec 2007: APEC Emerging Infections Network (APEC EINet)
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06 Dec 2007: Health and nutrition modules (Sphere Project)
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06 Dec 2007: Malaria on-line resource (Royal Perth Hospital)
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06 Dec 2007: Injury prevention and control (HealthInsite)
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06 Dec 2007: Community capacity building and health promotion in a globalised world (Health Promotion International)
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06 Dec 2007: Planning health care in developing countries (Assoc of Anesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland)
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06 Dec 2007: Decentralisation in Asian health sectors: friend or foe? (OECD)
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06 Dec 2007: 11 Health questions about the 11 Southeast Asia countries (WHO,Southeast Asia Regional Office)
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06 Dec 2007: The cascade mechanism for planning, implementation and reporting in healthcare (ABV)
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16 Oct 2007: Working together for better health: DFID health strategy 2007
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16 Oct 2007: Gender responsive budgeting & women's reproductive rights: a resource pack (UNIFEM)
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16 Oct 2007: Retirement decisions of older men in Indonesia (CCPR)
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11 Oct 2007: Australian Rotary Health Research Fund (ARHRF)
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11 Oct 2007: National clinical guidelines for the management of drug use during pregnancy, birth & years of a newborn (NSW Dept of Health)
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11 Oct 2007: National Health and Medical Research Council: funding and grants (NHMRC)
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04 Oct 2007: Community networks: local leaders building bridges for global health (Global Health Council)
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04 Oct 2007: World CME
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13 Jul 2007: AusReady
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13 Jul 2007: Adolescent refugee perspectives on psychosocial well-being (CIH)
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13 Jun 2007: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
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18 May 2007: A health handbook for women with disabilities
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18 May 2007: Gaining ground: a tool for advancing reproductive rights law reform (Center for Reproductive Rights)
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20 Feb 2007: The meaning and measurement of acute malnutrition in emergencies: a primer for decision makers (Humanitarian Practice Network)
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20 Feb 2007: Communication for immunisation campaigns for maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination (Healthy Newborns Partnership)
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20 Feb 2007: Paying out-of-pocket for health care in Asia: catastrophic and poverty impact (Equit)
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20 Feb 2007: Developing new technologies to address neglected diseases (DFID)
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20 Feb 2007: Tackling social exclusion in health and education: case studies from Asia (IDS)
- 24 Jan 2007: Decentralisation in Asian health sectors: friend or foe? (OECD)
- 18 Jan 2007: The CHILD 2015 goal (Development Through Dialogue)
HIV/AIDS
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20 Dec 2007: 2007 AIDS epidemic update (UNAIDS/WHO)
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17 Oct 2007: Policy framework for children and AIDS, India (NACO)
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17 Oct 2007: Guidelines for Behaviour Change Interventions to Prevent HIV (UNAIDS)
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17 Oct 2007: Educational Responses to HIV and AIDS for Refugees and IDPs (UNESCO)
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17 Oct 2007:Overview of HIV/ AIDS Epidemic and Response in Asia and the Pacific (UNAIDS)
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17 Oct 2007: Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Asia (UNICEF)
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17 Oct 2007: PNG National Gender Policy and Plan on HIV / AIDS 2006-2010 (National AIDS Council of Papua New Guinea)
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17 Oct 2007: Cultures and Contexts Matter: Understanding and Preventing HIV in the Pacific (ADB)
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17 Oct 2007: Converging HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health Services, India (PATH)
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16 Oct 2007: HIV and TB in the context of universal access: what is working & what is not? (Stop TB Partnership)
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06 Sep 2007: Effectively combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic (CIDA)
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06 Sep 2007: Macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS in the Asian and Pacific Region (ADB)
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06 Sep 2007: Fighting HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ADB)
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06 Sep 2007: Cultural programming: reproductive health challenges & strategies in South-East Asia (UNFPA)
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06 Sep 2007: Discussion paper for the round table on human rights, gender & HIV/AIDS 2005 (UNDP)
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30 Aug 2007: Migration Patterns Survey & HIV Vulnerability Assessment Mapping in Timor-Leste (CIH)
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13 June 2007: Preventing HIV/AIDS in infrastructure projects in China
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31 May 2007: Asia Pacific Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC)
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13 Apr 2007: HIV/AIDS epidemic update: 2006 (UNAIDS)
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13 Apr 2007: Leveraging the power of industry (GBC)
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13 Apr 2007: hivpolicy.org
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13 Apr 2007: HIV/AIDS mainstreaming (SARPN)
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13 Apr 2007: Prevention of mother to child transmission (ICRW)
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13 Apr 2007: Towards universal access (UNAIDS)
Infrastructure
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24 Jul 2007: Employment Intensive Investment Program (EIIP)
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13 July 2007: APELL: Guidelines for safe schools (UNEP)
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31 Mar 2007: Foreign direct investment in infrastructure in developing countries: does regulation make a difference?
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31 Mar 2007: ADB's infrastructure operations: responding to client needs
- 19 Mar 2007: Energy efficiency and climate change considerations for on-road transport in Asia (ADB)
- 19 Mar 2007: City development strategies to reduce poverty (ADB)
- 19 Mar 2007: Local financing for sub-sovereign infrastructure in developing countries (World Bank)
Knowledge Sharing/ICT Tools
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22 Oct 2007: Podcasting reviewed (Ufi/ Learn Direct and Kineo)
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22 Oct 2007: Tech-savvy communications: a toolkit for non-profits (NPower Seattle)
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22 Oct 2007: Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report (Global Information Society Watch)
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22 Oct 2007: Nepal wireless networking project (ENRAP)
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04 Oct 2007: ICT4D Policy and social inclusion a framework for evaluating policy outcomes (PIMD)
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20 Sep 2007: International Federation for Information Processing: conference papers (International Federation for Information Processing)
- 13 Jun 2007: Who benefits from the digital divide? (First Monday)
- 13 Jun 2007: Exploring new modalities: experiences with ICT interventions in the Asia-Pacific Region
- 13 Jun 2007: The potential of free and open source software for sustainable human development
- 13 Jun 2007: Gender and ICT
- 13 Jun 2007: ICTs for poverty alleviation
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05 Jun 2007: Communication for empowerment: developing media strategies in support of vulnerable groups (UNDP)
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31 May 2007: Gender assessment of selected e-business and strategies in Asia
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31 May 2007: iConnect online
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31 May 2007: Partnership on measuring ICT for development
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19 Mar 2007: Information literacy in national information and communication technology policies
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19 Mar 2007: Giving away secrets: can open source convert the software world? (PANOS)
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19 Mar 2007: Digital Songlines - Australia(The Communication Initative)
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20 Feb 2007: Groundspring learning centre for non-profits (Network for Good)
- 24 Jan 2007: Local radio in the information society - technology, participation and content in Africa (PANOS)
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24 Jan 2007: Rural development and ICT case study - Solomon Islands (USP)
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24 Jan 2007: Cambodia ICT4D national education policy (Cambodian government)
- 18 Jan 2007: ICTs for agricultural livelihoods: impact and lessons learned from IICD supported activities
Water & Sanitation
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22 Oct 2007: Use of ceramic water filters in Cambodia (WSP)
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22 Oct 2007: Measuring rural water supply access: Findings from a Cambodian national surveys (WSP)
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22 Oct 2007: How to create the complete rain harvesting system (Rainwater harvesting)
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18 Oct 2007: Prices versus rationing: Marshallian surplus & mandatory water restrictions (ANU)
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13 Sep 2007: Managing for safe water: field guide 2007
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10 Sep 2007: Dignity, disease and dollars: Asia's urgent sanitation challenge
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30 Aug 2007: Outputs from landscaping study for Gates Foundation (IRC)
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05 June 2007: How "natural" are natural monopolies in the water supply and sewerage sector? (World Bank)
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31 May 2007: Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis
- 19 Mar 2007: Progress for children: a report card on water and sanitation (UNICEF)
- 19 Mar 2007: Squeezing Wine from Wastewater: Australia (ADB)
- 19 Mar 2007: Integrated Catchment Management: Lake Kutubu, Papua New Guinea (ADB)
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20 Feb 2007: Australian water research facility: progress presentations (AusAID)
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20 Feb 2007: Local initiatives for better hygiene (WELL)
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20 Feb 2007: Health impacts of improved household sanitation (WELL)
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20 Feb 2007: The effectiveness of water quality interventions in preventing diarrhoea (WELL)
- 18 Dec 2007: Cost recovery for urban sanitation in Asian countries (ISFm - UTS)
- 18 Dec 2007: Task force on financing water for all report
2005 Archive
