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DRC Conflict Position Paper - November 2012

This ActionAid paper concerns the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as of 28 November 2012, and articulates ActionAid’s position on recent developments in North Kivu as well as the

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Tackling the Limits to Adaptation: An International Framework to Address 'Loss and Damage' from Climate Change Impacts

The current and future scale of climate change implies serious loss and damage, especially to the lives and livelihoods of those who are poor, most vulnerable and least to blame. Still developed

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Governance in Action, edition one

This is the first edition of ActionAid Myanmar's quarterly governance newsletter named 'Governance in Action'.It contains articles on active citizenship for accountable governance, challenges to

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Haiti: Avoiding Another Dangerous Delay

In Haiti, grassroots communities, international partners, and the government are sounding the alarm of an impending food crisis, with potentially disastrous consequences for nearly 2 million Haitians

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Young women: life choices and livelihoods in poor urban India

A scoping study of three cities in India, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai, was conducted to better understand young women’s experiences in urban areas and inform ActionAid India’s intention to launch an

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Young women: life choices and livelihoods in poor urban areas

This paper is a part of the ActionAid young urban women scoping exercise conducted in India, South Africa and Ghana.The paper provides some overall regional trends for: population increases and

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Making her own choices: young women’s rights in poor urban areas

This programme framework is informed by three country level and international reviews of the literature related to young women, livelihoods and sexual and reproductive health, and empirical research

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Young women: life choices and livelihoods in poor urban South Africa

ActionAid South Africa undertook a scoping study to better understand the experiences of young women living in poor areas of Johannesburg and Cape Town.The findings from the study then inform a new

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Young women: life choices and livelihoods in poor urban Ghana

Because of their age and gender, young women are often among those most adversely affected by these pressures and by continuing cultural prejudices and power inequalities.This scoping study supports

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Lay of the land - Improving land governance to stop land grabs

Large-scale land acquisitions by investors, which are often called ‘land grabs’, can deprive rural women and communities of their livelihoods and land, increasing their food insecurity. This report