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- This report explains the state of sustainable buildings and the construction industry in India including best practices, successes, barriers and recommendations for further implementation towards mitigation of climate change impacts. This report was published by UNEP in 2010.
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- Priyanka Kochhar
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/pdf/SBCI_State_of_play_India.pdf
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- This study assesses whether universal primary education can be achieved by 2015 by analyzing education policies and financing patterns in the largest low-income countries that are furthest from achieving universal primary education. It identifies a new policy and financing framework that could accelerate global progress in primary education. This study was published by WorldBank in 2003.
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- Barbara Bruns; Alain Mingat; Ramahatra Rakotomalala
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15121
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- This case study presents a forest rehabilitation initiative in the tropical dry forests in north-western India, highlights an indirect approach for assessing forest degradation, identification of forest rehabilitation objectives and targets and illustrates lessons learned for future forest rehabilitation in dry land forests. This study was published by FAO in 2009.
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- Michael Kleine; Ghazala Shahabuddin; Promode Kant
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/k7176e/k7176e00.pdf
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- This report evaluates the current use of microirrigation technologies in Maharashtra and Gujarat in India as a method of saving water in irrigated agriculture and averting potential water shortage crises, a strategy to increase farm incomes and reduce poverty and a method of enhancing the food and nutritional security of rural households through an increase in the area of cultivation, better crop yields, enhanced output quality, early crop maturity and reduced cultivation costs. This report was published by IWMI in 2005.
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- R. E. Namara; B. Upadhyay; R. K. Nagar
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3910/2009.094
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- This report aims to provide capacity building on disaster risk financing and insurance (DRFI) in ASEAN member states. It discusses the financial assessment and financial management of natural disasters and then goes on to describe agricultural insurance and disaster microinsurance. It concludes by arguing that governments need to understand the benefits and the limitations of disaster risk financing and insurance as part of their disaster risk management strategies. This report was published by the World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12627
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- This document provides the technical appendices for volume one of this report. It includes nine appendices, including information about disaster risk exposure profiles, disaster risk management profiles and agricultural and microinsurance for ASEAN member states. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- The World Bank Group
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12628
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- This collection of papers examines agriculture and rural development in China, linkages between China and The WorldFish Center, aquaculture research and its relation to development in China and the research priorities of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS). It was published by WorldFish in 2003.
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- L. X. Zhang; J. Liu; S. F. Li; N. S. Yang; P. R. Gardiner
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_348.pdf
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- This paper aims to estimate the impact of school-based management on students' test scores in the Philippines. This paper was published by WorldBank in 2014.
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- Futoshi Yamauchi
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16831
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- This report explores the benefits, risks and threats and negative economic impacts of using fish aggregating devices (FADs) as a method of boosting fish production and increasing food security. Specialist technical information is also included including how to choose a site and how to construct and install an FAD. This report was published by FAO in 2012.
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- Steve Beverly; Don Griffiths; Robert Lee
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i3087e/i3087e00.htm
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- This report examines the impacts of aquaculture development on poverty, markets and trade research in support of pro-poor aquaculture development, global trends in aquaculture, key issues for reducing poverty and hunger, assuring the growth in aquaculture in Asia generates livelihoods for the poor, assuring higher rates of fish consumption by the poor and emerging priorities for research on markets and trade. This report was published by WorldFish in 2011.
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- A. Gordon; L. Kassam
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2828.pdf
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- This study investigates the sustainability of aquaculture extension projects in Kapasia Upazila in Gazipur District in Bangladesh, surveying the household socioeconomic changes and pond aquaculture practices and changes since the end of earlier specific extension efforts. It also presents the results of detailed monitoring of sixty-nine ponds in Kapasia, a fish consumption survey in Kapasia, case studies of aquaculture technologies in Kapasia and a survey of fish markets and consumers.
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- P. M. Thompson; P. Sultana; A. K. M. Firoz Khan
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_559.pdf
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- This report reviews the importance of rice and fish in rural Cambodia, the current status of the aquaculture sector in Cambodia, the challenges for poor people adopting fish farming and examples of small-scale aquaculture development initiatives. This report was published by WorldFish in 2010.
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- O. Joffre; Y. Kura; J. Pant; S. Nam
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2769.pdf
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- This brief report highlights some of the key findings relating to the ASEAN region taken from a global review of the impacts of aquaculture on the environment including an overview of aquaculture in the region, an analysis of how aquaculture affects the ocean life cycle and a prediction of future demand.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2819.pdf
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- This brief report describes the livelihood options adopted by participants of the Adivasi Fisheries Project in Bangladesh, including pond aquaculture, rice-fish farming, cage culture of fingerlings, habitat restoration, fingerling trading, food fish trading and netting teams.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2484.pdf
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- This paper identifies how the contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to poverty reduction and food security can be enhanced while maintaining sustainability in over-exploited and over-capitalized capture fisheries and improving environmental performance. This paper was published by WorldFish in 2011.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2971.pdf
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Pragyajan Rai; Paul Reig; Matt Luck
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-mekong-river-basin-study
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Yangtze River Basin in China. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Tianyi Luo; Tien Shiao; Matt Luck
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-yangtze-river-basin-study
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Yellow River Basin in China. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Tianyi Luo; Tien Shiao; Matt Luck
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-yellow-river-basin-study
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- This report describes the Aqueduct Water Risk Framework, the indicators it includes and the methodology used to combine them into aggregated, comprehensive risk scores. The Aqueduct Water Risk Framework includes indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability.
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- Paul Reig; Tien Shiao; Francis Gassert
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-water-risk-framework
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- This report addresses the extent to which microcredit participants in Bangladesh are helped or hindered by debt. It discusses the benefits of microcredit schemes in the country and presents analysis of data to counter claims that microcredit participants are 'trapped in debt'. This report was published by The World Bank in 2013.
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- Shahidur R. Khandkur; Hussain A. Samad
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/13125
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- This document reports on the regional consultation of the proposed voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land attended by representatives from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam which was held to assess regional priorities and issues to be considered when the guidelines were drafted.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/ak802e/ak802e00.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the first goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of education and care in early childhood, and identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002171/217145e.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the second goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of all children to have access to and to complete free, compulsory, good quality primary education. It also identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002212/221200E.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the third goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of all young people and adults having the opportunity to gain the knowledge and develop the skills to develop their capacity to work, participate in society and continue learning. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2013.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/efa/Publications/EDN_G3_Web_FINAL.pdf
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- This report assesses the progress of countries in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the fourth goal of the Education for All commitment, the goal of achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults. It identifies the remaining challenges and priorities that need to be addressed for these countries to achieve this goal. This report was published in 2012.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UNICEF
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002184/218428E.pdf