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Community-driven development : myths and realities
Wong, Susan; Guggenheim, Scott E. - 2018
Community-driven development is an approach to development that emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources. Over the past decade, it has become a key operational strategy for many national governments, as well as for international aid agencies, with the World...
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Pedagogy versus School Readiness : The Impact of a Randomized Reading Instruction Intervention and Community-Based Playgroup Intervention on Early Grade Reading Outcomes in Tonga
Macdonald, Kevin - 2017
Identifying cost-effective interventions to improve early literacy is vital to developing countries, given the importance of early literacy for an individual's future education outcomes and subsequent human capital formation. This paper presents the impact on early grade reading outcomes of two...
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Engaging with Civil Society in the Health Sector in Indonesia
World Bank Group - 2019
As Indonesia's economic is growing, the country's eligibility to external financing has become more limited. The sustainability of traditionally donor-funded programs become uncertain, as well as some of the key programs interventions that are delivered by CSOs. While the country remains...
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Guinea Bissau Citizen Engagement : Mapping and NGOs Capacity Assessment Report
World Bank Group - 2018
This report presents the findings of a rapid mapping and capacity assessment of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Guinea Bissau. The assessment aimed to understand the role of NGOs in targeted service delivery sectors and in social mobilization. The findings of the assessment...
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The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility's capacity building program for forest-dependent indigenous peoples and southern civil society organizations : Results from 2009-2016
2017
For almost a decade now, the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) has been supporting efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD ), in the global fight against climate change. A key component of this work has been to ensure the full and...
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Short and long-run labor market effects of developing country exports : evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2020
the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably … exogenous to Bangladesh, the authors instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. The paper compares …, Bangladesh's export shock was sector specific, limited predominantly to the female-intensive garment and textile sector. The …
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What aspects of formality do workers value? : evidence from a choice experiment in Bangladesh
Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2020
This study uses a choice experiment among 2,000 workers in Bangladesh to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for job …
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Assessing deprivation with an ordinal variable : theory and application to sanitation deprivation in Bangladesh
Seth, Suman; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2020
empirical illustration documenting changes in sanitation deprivation in Bangladesh showcases the measures' ability to identify …
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Children need clean water to grow : E. Coli contamination of drinking water and childhood nutrition in Bangladesh
Joseph, George; Haque, Sabrina S.; Moqueet, Nazia; Hoo, … - 2019
younger than age five years, using unique cross-sectional data from the 2012-13 Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey …
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Impact of salinity on infant and neonatal mortality in Bangladesh
Joseph, George; Wang, Qiao; Chellaraj, Gnanaraj; … - 2019
In this paper, the impact of salinity on maternal and child health in Bangladesh is analyzed using data from the … Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys. A U-shaped association between drinking water salinity and infant and neonatal mortality …, especially in the coastal areas of Bangladesh …
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