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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Adolescent girls, capabilities and gender justice: review of the literature for East Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 8 March 2013
    ODI Background Notes
    Carol Watson, James Hamilton Harding and Caroline Harper
    This Background Note synthesises the results of three extensive literature reviews exploring the extent to which gender justice for adolescent girls is shaped by formal and informal laws, norms, attitudes and practices that limit them in the attainment and exercise of their capabilities.
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  2. The political economy of local adaptation planning: exploring barriers to Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making in three districts in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 February 2013
    Lindsey Jones, Eva Ludi, Aklilu Amsalu, Luis Artur, Matthew Bunce, Shirley Matheson, William Muhumuza and Daniel Zacarias
    This paper explores key institutional barriers in preventing effective Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM) within development policy and programming. More specifically, it explores the influence of various institutional and sociopolitical drivers on the ability of district governance processes to adapt to change and uncertainty.
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  3. New approaches to promoting Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making - Full Report

    New approaches to promoting Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making: insights from complexity science, climate change adaptation and ‘serious gaming’

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 February 2013
    Lindsey Jones, Eva Ludi, Patrick Beautement, Christine Broenner and Carina Bachofen
    Drawing on insights from complexity science, this paper describes what processes are needed to promote Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM) and trials three game-and reflection approaches to engage local decision in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda.
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  4. Mongolia: readiness for climate finance

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 14 February 2013
    Merylyn Hedger
    This report kick-starts discussions in Mongolia to improve its climate readiness capacity and to support work towards the establishment of a national implementing entity which could be accredited to directly access external funds.
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  5. Voices from the source: struggles with local water security in Ethiopia

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 6 February 2013
    Mengistu Dessalegn, Likimyelesh Nigussie, Wondwosen Michago, Josephine Tucker, Alan Nicol and Roger Calow
    What are the physical, social, economic and political drivers of water insecurity in different locations in Ethiopia? How have different communities responded to situations of water stress? What should be the public policy and institutional priorities to improve resilience to water stress at a local level, and reduce the negative impacts on communities? This assessment explores local water security in two very different sites in rural Ethiopia – a pastoral district in the eastern Somali region (Shinile), and a somewhat remote agricultural district in the south (Konso).
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  6. Vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana
    Vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana

    A vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana's Upper West Region, which has suffered failed rains and rising temperatures.
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)
    Source: Flickr

    Groundwater resources in the Indo-Gangetic basin

    Projects - February 2013 to May 2014
    The overall objective of this work is to provide an authoritative overview of the occurrence and status of groundwater resources in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (IGB) and to strengthen the evidence base linking groundwater, climate population and abstraction – collating and systemising existing data for policy and national planning and future research programmes.
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  8. Off the balance sheet: the impact of the economic crisis on girls and young women

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 21 January 2013
    Maria Stavropoulou and Nicola Jones
    This report examines the continuing and deepening impact of the economic crisis on girls and young women worldwide. The research explores how long standing economic trends, entrenched gender inequality and austerity budgets have all left girls and their families bearing the brunt of fewer resources and reduced access to services.
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  10. Are cash transfers effective? Mukulu's story

    Publication - Films and videos - 8 January 2013
    Mukulu, a girl living in Kwakavisi, Kenya, is a beneficiary of cash transfers. In this digital story she shares her experiences and perspectives using photographs she took herself.
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