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Good Governance and Budget Tracking– from a Child Rights Perspective
'Good Governance and Budget Tracking– from a Child Rights Perspective' by Save the Children Sweden. The main objective of this document is to find out how the governance process and the manner of its resource allocation serve the best interest of the chil
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Report on a Children’s Participation Process Towards a South African Child Labour Programme. “When I finish my work it is after six. My heart is sore because I have not played.”
The research discussed in this report was conducted as part of a process of formulating a national child labour action programme for South Africa. It was aimed at obtaining the views of children doing work that may potentially be detrimental to their deve
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An exploratory study of quality of life and coping strategies of orphans living in child-headed households in the high HIV/AIDS prevalent city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
A distressing consequence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and of the increasing numbers of orphans and decreasing numbers of caregivers is the emergence in ever larger numbers of child-headed households (CHHs). The complexity of issues affecting CHHs and the lac
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Cash for Recovery: Feasibility study on a capital-based income generation scheme for tsunami-affected households in Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka
Cash for Recovery looks at the feasibility of cash-based responses in post-disaster situations. It is an in-depth study of a scheme in Sri Lanka designed to meet the needs of extremely poor and labour-scarce households. It includes detailed recommendation
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An unnecessary evil? User fees for healthcare in low-income countries
This paper gives an account, based on published and unpublished papers, of the development of user fees for healthcare in low-income countries. It discusses how and why user fees were developed; their impact on health services and households; how donor po
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Barns ekonomiska utsatthet. Årsrapport 2007
This report is the fifth annual update of the study "Barns ekonomiska utsatthet under 1990-talet. Bidrag till ett kommunalt barnindex" (The economic vulnerability among children in Sweden during the 1990s. Contribution to a national child welfare index),
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Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Children in Hong Kong
Supplementary report by the Children's Council Working Committee to China's 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The report concerns child rights issues in Hong Kong and the views and opinions on child
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Child, Youth & Family Development. Evaluating replacement childcare arrangements: methods for combining economic and child development outcome analyses
HIV/AIDS has many impacts, among which is the effect of the epidemic on children. Children may themselves be infected, they may be living with, and possibly caring for, ill parents or other family members, and many will lose one or both parents. There are
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Securing food and preventing HIV/AIDS. Study on the linkages between food and cash distributions and the AIDS epidemic in rural Ethiopia
This study sets out to examine the effects of HIV/AIDS on food and livelihood security in rural Ethiopia, and how those effects can be measured and mitigated. The report is based on a household survey that includes a total of 3679 households, in addition
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Barnfattigdomen i Sverige. Årsrapport 2003. Sammanfattning
This report summarises the second annual update of the study carried out by Professor Tapio Salonen at the request of Save the Children Sweden- "Barns ekonomiska utsatthet under 1990-talet. Bidrag till ett kommunalt barnindex" (The economic vulnerability
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Alternative Report on the State of Child Rights in Pakistan
Supplementary report to Pakistan's country report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, prepared by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child-Pakistan (SPARC) in April 2003. Although Pakistan ratified the C
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The impact of HIV/AIDS on the agricultural sector and rural livelihoods in Uganda
This study was carried out by the National Agricultural Advisory Services of Uganda (NAADS) with the support of FAO's Integrated Support to Sustainable Development and Food Security Programme (IP). It was designed by IP, in conjunction with NAADS, and has