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  Unhappy alliance – does integrated reproductive healthcare work?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What are the best strategies to tackle the spread of HIV and improve women’s reproductive health? Since 1994, the international approach has been to integrate sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV services with primary healthcare and family planning programmes. But how successful has this been?
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  For Africa by Africa. Resurrecting African-published journals

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Publishing outlets in Africa have dwindled, university presses have declined and many renowned periodicals and journals have ceased publication. Yet indigenous publication is essential to the emergence of African academic enterprise and ought not be replaced by publication in the west. Little information exists regarding current usage of African published journals in African universities.
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  Family planning programmes for the next century

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Family planning programmes arose as a new form of state intervention in the 1960s. In many countries, particularly in Asia, the rationale was an explicit demographic one of reducing fertility and bringing down rates of population growth. Since 1960, fertility in developing countries has fallen from an average of 6.5 births per women to 3.3 births.
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  African distance learning: reaching parts other education systems cannot reach?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Can non-formal radio and correspondence courses provide basic education to Africans bypassed by the school system? What are the key constraints, problems and success factors in the field of distance education in Africa? Could greater commitment of resources to distance education plug discriminatory gaps in African formal education systems?
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  Foreign direct investment and poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Although foreign direct investment (FDI) contributes to growth in developing countries, there is evidence that the benefits are not equally distributed. Foreign- owned firms tend to pay higher wages in developing countries, but skilled workers tend to benefit more than less-skilled workers. What contribution does FDI make towards poverty reduction?
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  Sector wide coordination of aid: are SIPs shaping up?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can donors work together to increase the chances of aid achieving poverty reduction? The World Bank and Nordic agencies have enthusiastically promoted Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAPs) to coordinate development assistance. Can SWAPs improve the chances of reaching the ambitious International Development Goals target of halving poverty by 2015?
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  Expanding DOTS in the context of a changing health system

  World Health Organization, 2003

  In conjunction with mounting responses to the various public health priorities, many countries are striving to strengthen their health systems to make them more equitable, effective, efficient, responsive, and sustainable.
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  Gender equality in sector wide approaches: a reference guide

  OECD Development Centre, 2002

  This guide presents a series of case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in education, health and agriculture.It offers advice on how to ensure that a sector wide approach:contributes to overall sustainability and effectivenessis fully responsive to the needs and interests of both women and men and helps to promote gender equalityThe case studies identif
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  The informal sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report attempts to provide an analysis of available secondary data on the informal sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  The body [chapter in ‘Voices of the poor: crying out for change’]

  World Bank, 2000

  While it is recognised that poverty and poor health are closely linked, it is rare that the poor have the opportunity to voice their own experiences with respect to health issues. Poor people from across the world described their own health experiences in the World Bank's 'Voices of the Poor', a multi-country study of poor people's experiences of poverty.

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