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		<title>A Rapid Seed Assessment in the Southern Department of Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haiti: A report on the findings of the rapid seed assessment conducted by CRS between Febuary 12 and March 1, 2010.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/03/rapid-seed-assessment-southern-department-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Free vegetable seed could harm Haiti’s agriculture sector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. Tom Remington, CRS Principal Agriculture Advisor
5 March 2010
CRS discourages the direct distribution of vegetable seed in response to the earthquake in Haiti because the seed may be of new varieties that are not yet proven in the location of intended use. There could be problems related to temperatures (high and low), daylength, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/03/free-vegetable-seed-harm-haitis-agriculture-sector-crs/</link>
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		<title>Child migration in Central America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Child migrants who are apprehended and returned from Mexico to their home countries face abuses throughout the repatriation process. This CRS study documents the conditions they face.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/02/child-migration/</link>
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		<title>CRS&#8217; Wellness and HIV in the Workplace Program in Southern Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ana Maria Ferraz, Regional Technical Advisor for HIV, CRS Southern Africa Regional Office
 CRS is committed to creating a compassionate and just workplace with well informed and sensitive employees who have access to quality medical and psychosocial support. Since 2005, CRS has had a workplace HIV policy which promotes staff education and awareness on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/02/crs-wellness-hiv-workplace-program-southern-africa/</link>
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		<title>Community leaders encourage greater demands for VCT services in Timor Leste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Johansson, CRS Technical Advisor, Timor Leste
 CRS Timor Leste has implemented the Smart &#38; Safe (S&#38;S) prevention project as a sub-grantee of the Ministry of Health’s Global Fund Round 5 HIV grant since January 2008. The S&#38;S project targets clients of sex workers in four districts using A and B social behavior change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/02/community-leaders-encourage-greater-demands-vct-services-timor-leste/</link>
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		<title>CRS helps caregivers in Cameroon build savings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Kenneth Muko
Everyone has heard the saying: &#8220;Give a man a fish, and he&#8217;ll eat for a day. Teach him to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.&#8221; It’s a touching story and a useful parable, but how will the man be able to fish if he can’t afford a fishing pole? And what if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/02/crs-helps-caregivers-cameroon-build-savings/</link>
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		<title>A Child-Centered Monitoring and Evaluation Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making M&#038;E activities enjoyable for children ensures they will want to participate, which in turn improves the quality of data received. Data collected through Station Days is used to effectively measure project outputs, outcomes and impacts.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/02/childcentered-monitoring-evaluation-tool/</link>
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		<title>CRS conference to explore use of ICT for development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CRS will hold a conference titled &#8220;ICT4D&#8221; (Information and Communications Technology for Development) in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 11-13, 2010. Guided by the theme &#8220;Knowledge and Innovation,&#8221; the conference will determine a coherent, agency-wide strategy that enables projects to use ICT solutions that are backstopped by sufficient staff, management, and support to deploy them successfully. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/02/crs-conference-explore-information-technology-development/</link>
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		<title>OVC Program Sustainability and Transition Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CRS designed <i>A Facilitator’s Guide to Developing OVC Program Sustainability and Transition Plans</i> in order to facilitate the comprehensive and systematic review of existing structures and planning for strengthening of indigenous mechanisms for OVC.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/01/ovc-program-sustainability-transition-plans/</link>
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		<title>Using cell phones to monitor food security threats – a food security and M&amp;E pilot in Malawi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using cell phones only for calling people is *so* 2009.
Over the past year leading into this new decade we’ve seen new uses for cell phones in humanitarian work and through CRS programs. In Niger, people learn literacy skills through cell phone programs. In Ghana, farmers can gain valuable market information via text messages. People living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crsprogramquality.org/2010/01/cell-phones-monitor-food-security-threats-food-security-pilot-malawi/</link>
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