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- WCC Asia Desk
- An evolutionary approach to facilitating organisational learning
- People's Participatory Rural Development, Bangladesh
- ACT members
- Christian Commission For The Development Of Bangladesh
- SAMREN
- Christian Aid report to the United Reformed Church
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