'This publication, which consists of two parts, underscores the importance of population issues, including reproductive health, as a critical component of national efforts to reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs. The first part highlights key arguments on the benefits to be gained when governments make reproductive health and rights a development priority. The second part includes the 'Stockholm Call to Action', a list of practical ways to invest in reproductive health which was endorsed by a num more...
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"Job placement has been the traditional goal of labour and employment policies, but this report argues otherwise. To stay competitive in a globalised economy, governments must also strive to enhance the skills of workers, increase their productivity and provide upward mobility to immigrants and the disadvantaged. This report provides valuable insights into how labour policies can be expanded to meet economic development and social cohesion goals, while also reconciling national and local concern more...
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This is a research and dissemination organisation, primarily focusing on efforts to lessen the impact of armed conflict on civilian children through better protection of their rights.The website contains information on armed conflicts around the world and their impact on children. It also provides reports and documents on specific issues and themes relating to children, links to relevant sites and a comprehensive database of international law, documents and reports.
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The Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre works to inform and influence policy makers in order to more effectively tackle childhood poverty. CHIP is a collaborative venture between Save the Children and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CRPC) with partners in China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and the UK. It aims to: * deepen understanding of the main causes of childhood poverty and poverty cycles, and increase knowledge of effective strategies to tackle it in different contexts; * in more...
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Publisher: International Labour Organization , 2007. Full text of document. These guidelines offer a project planning tool for designing strategies of an International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) action programme to combat commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). It aims to act as a simple toolkit to help project designers in selecting or devising the most appropriate strategies and actions at both the national and community level.
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Authors: ; Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE). Publisher: Educational Quality Improvement Program, USAID, 2008. This toolkit outlines activities and training methods to address problems that affect school attendance and development in Cambodia. The toolkit is organised into a website developed to engage school committees to prioritize the problems they encounter and to choose the appropriate interventions to solve those problems. The process begins with each school committee conducti more...
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This section of the fourth edition of the Gender and Media Diversity Journal contains a selection of articles exploring youth, children, and the media. Specifially, it looks at issues including the participation of youth and children in creating programmes, learning media literacy, and bringing children's issues into the public eye for dialogue. It consists of four articles, including:
- 'Celebrating youth media and proposing a way forward' by Mimi Brazeau: looks at how Plan West Africa has more...
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