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Searching with a thematic focus on Social protection, Poverty, Livelihoods social protection, Livelihoods in Uganda

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  Oxfam GB’s experience with cash for work: summaries of evaluations in Bangladesh, Uganda, Kenya, Afghanistan and Haiti

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper gives an overview of Oxfam’s experience with cash for work programmes in five countries as part of their recovery programmes following natural disasters or conflicts.
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  Severe poverty and growth: a macro-micro analysis

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the relationship between growth and poverty and argues that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate policy and institutional changes that would enable an exit out of poverty.
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  Transformative social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), discusses the concept of social protection and the ways in which social protection policy has worked in practice, drawing on examples from Uganda.It claims that social protection has been popularly perceived as “social welfare programmes for poor countries”, consisting of costly targeted transfers to economically inac
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  The informal economy: fact finding study

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  This study provides an overview of the characteristics of the informal economy in developing countries, identifies reasons for the significance of the informal economy, and provides recommendations for SIDA on how to address the issues raised through its development programmes.The paper emphasises that the informal economy needs to be better understood, by both governments and donors, because i
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  Household coping strategies in response to the introduction of user charges of social services: a case study on health in Uganda

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) working paper examines the approaches to health care seeking and financing by households. The study examines two poor districts in rural Uganda using a range of qualitative research techniques.
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  Multiple shocks and downward mobility: learning from the life histories of rural Ugandans

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper presents findings from research on chronic poverty in rural Uganda. The analysis builds on qualitative and quantitative livelihoods research undertaken in three districts, including in-depth life history interviews with the heads of nearly 25 households in 3 villages.
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  The politics of staying poor in Uganda

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper explores how political actors, processes, debates and institutions influence the reduction and reproduction of chronic poverty in Uganda.
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  HIV/AIDS and agriculture: impacts and responses: case studies from Namibia, Uganda and Zambia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  How can countries support increasing numbers of vulnerable households? What can be done to reverse the trend towards increasing destitution?
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  Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
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  Potential uses of food aid to support HIV/AIDS mitigation activities in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000

  This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS.

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