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This brief provides an overview of tobacco control legislation, use, and taxation in the country. Costa Rica ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2008. General Law for the Control of Tobacco and its Harmful Effects on Health was adopted in March 2012, and it regulates...
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The aim of this report is to document the fidelity of the implementationof the RIPSS in the Huetar-Atlántica Region in Costa Rica. Implementationfidelity seeks to assess the extent to which an intervention is implementedas planned and, for this, the PIPs were contrasted with what wasimplemented...
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The purpose of this poverty assessment is to shine a new light on poverty, inequality, and its drivers in Costa Rica. The report provides a descriptive overview of poverty trends in the country and examines why the poorest do not reap the benefits of economic growth. It provides high-level...
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This urbanization review "Connecting the Greater Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica" focuses on the South Corridor, a lagging (sub)region within Costa Rica's Greater Metropolitan Area (Gran Area Metropolitana, GAM), and the challenges facing the subregion as a result of rapid and unplanned...
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The aim of this report is to document the fidelity of the implementation of the RIPSS in the Huetar-Atlantica Region in Costa Rica. Implementation fidelity seeks to assess the extent to which an intervention is implemented as planned and, for this, the PIPs were contrasted with what was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454291
grant, Strengthening Capacity for Prevention and Response to Sexual- and Gender-Based Violence in Georgia (GBV). The goal of … conflict and Gender-based Violence (GBV). The Global Initiative, financed by the SPF, includes pilot projects across East Asia …
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Domestic Violence (DV) is a universal phenomenon that affects millions of women of all social strata worldwide. It is … the most pervasive, common, under-recognized, underestimated and under-reported type of violence against women. It … freedoms by victims and survivors who are overwhelmingly women. Domestic Violence (DV) is a development challenge and has a …
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Gender-based violence, or GBV, is one of the most oppressive forms of gender inequality, posing a fundamental barrier … violence, non-partner sexual assault, female genital mutilation, sexual exploitation and abuse, child abuse, female infanticide …, and child marriage. Such violence impedes gender equality and the achievement of a range of development outcomes. In …
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-door policy. This note provides practical guidance on how to effectively identify, assess, and manage the risk of violence against …
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In recent years, the world has seen a sharp rise in violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in … countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence (FCV). Today, consensual same-sex sexual acts and other aspects of SOGI … experienced by sexual and gender minorities in conditions of forced displacement; and to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV …
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