'To facilitate access of ultra poor households to qualified allopathic care, especially for moderate-to severe and chronic morbidities, the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) programme appointed a panel of doctors in its Area Offices. This study was carried out to assess the current status of this ‘panel doctor’ scheme, identify its problems and prospects from a participatory perspective, and suggest remedial measures for future improvement. '

'Despite some remarkable improvements in nutritional status, malnutrition in Bangladesh is still highly prevalent, especially among the poorest. A number of initiatives are taking place that address the food intake of the ultra poor, either directly or indirectly. Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/ Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) has become the key programme for BRAC to help the most disadvantaged population. To provide a clear pathway of graduation to the beneficiaries after tw more...

Una valoración del Informe del señor John Ruggie: “Proteger, Respetar y Remediar: un Marco para la Empresa y los Derechos Humanos”
Este trabajo es una valoración de la visión de John Ruggie –Representante Especial para derechos humanos (DDHH) y Empresa de la ONU– para determinar los principios fundamentales de un nuevo marco de DDHH y empresa. Esta es una continuación del estudio previo a fondo del autor en relación al debate sobre las responsabilidades de la empresa respecto a l more...

'This study summarizes the main recommendations of each research project conducted on various themes such as culture, tradition and marginalized communities (India, Pakistan), poverty and the rights of indigenous people (Chile, Mexico and Peru), the rights of the young population in urban peripheral areas (Panama), the impact of HIV and AIDS on the elderly poor (South Africa), the challenges of environmental protection policies, the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples (Argentina, Mexi more...

'The contributions range over a wide terrain, including international human rights conventions, domestic constitutional and statutory provisions, and the law relating to social insurance and social assistance. Poverty is examined as being in certain respects legally constructed (i.e. there are ways in which specific laws create and exacerbate poverty). Also explored is the role of law in establishing specific rights or entitlements that contribute to reducing poverty, in particular social securi more...

'The researchers who have written this book are clear not only that mass poverty is still the leading humanitarian crisis in developing countries, but that, if effective policies are to be put in place, the national elites who control governments and economies need to be convinced both of the reasons why reducing poverty is in their own and the national interest, and that public action can make a difference. Remarkably, in the rapidly growing litereature on poverty, this volume is the first to u more...

'Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) is one of the relatively recent additions to BRAC’s long experience with development approaches. This experimental programme was launched in 2002 with a complete package of supports targeting the ultra poor. BRAC’s years of experience in working with the poor has been key to the design and implementation of the programme. This comprehensive programme is designed to work simultaneously on different dimensions of deprivation of the most di more...

This literature review contributes to the study of communication of research for poverty reduction by mapping the current recommendations and emerging themes in the literature relevant to this issue, drawing on an annotated bibliography of over 100 documents from DFID and other development agencies, research institutes, academics and practitioners.

'This “CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) Investment Guide for Brazil,” aims at providing CDM project proponents in the country, and CDM investors interested in CDM opportunities in the country, with reliable, updated sources of information regarding CDM opportunities in the energy and industrial sectors of Brazil. Although it is apparent that CDM could operate in other sectors of the Brazilian economy as well, including the potential applicability of CDM sinks in the forestry sector, or the more...

In this report by German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), the scientists stress that successful environmental protection is a prerequisite for effective poverty eradication. The poor countries' development prospects will only improve if more intensive mitigation and adaptation measures are adopted in response to ongoing environmental changes. The industrialized countries must make their contribution to help overcome this crisis. In the WBGU's view, the linkages between environmental pro more...