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  Nine African budget transparency and participation case studies

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  The findings from this study explore budget transparency from the ordinary citizen's perspective. It sheds some light on information required to engage meaningfully with budgetary and other decisions involving public resources from the ordinary citizen's perspective.
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  Refurbished computers for African schools: opportunity or threat?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Refurbishing used and second hand computers is one means among many for African schools to gain access to affordable information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, addressing Africa’s digital divide is not simply a matter of shipping unwanted computers from the developed world. Not every second-hand computer is suitable for re-use.
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  Pukaar: the journal of Naz Foundation International, April 2005

  Naz Foundation International, 2005

  This quarterly newsletter from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) provides a forum for discussion, information and advice regarding sexual health and HIV and AIDS, focusing on South Asian masculinities and sexualities.
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  Towards inclusive poverty reduction policies: lessons from Uganda

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  It is now widely acknowledged that poverty is not just about low income, but also about powerlessness and exclusion. In Uganda, for example, much progress has been made, as indicated by infant mortality, literacy and economic growth rates. However, it is still one of the poorest countries in the world.
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  Human resource studies in health for poor and transitional countries

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2004

  This paper, published by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Health Systems Development Programme, examines the issues and research questions surrounding human resources and health in developing countries. It argues that health system performance is largely driven by human resources because health services are by nature labour-intensive.
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  Putting water and sanitation at the heart of poverty reduction

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are a requirement for debt relief and concessional lending from the World Bank. They are central to the development strategies of countries across sub-Saharan Africa and as such are very important for making the millennium development goals – including access to safe drinking water – a reality.
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  Decentralisation: do poor people benefit from local government expenditure decisions?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Governments are increasingly focusing on decentralisation to reform and strengthen local government. This is often driven by demands from the public, national reconstruction programmes and, especially in Africa, donors. But is there evidence that this leads to pro-poor decisions that make better use of resources and reflect local needs?
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  Why are policy responses to the needs of poor people inadequate?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Policy failure in developing countries is particularly acute where the chronically poor, vulnerable and excluded are concerned. Although there is now a much better theoretical understanding of poverty, many problems poor people face remain only weakly addressed.
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  No Relief: surveying the effects of gun violence on humanitarian and development personnel

  Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2005

  This report details the findings of an action-oriented research project undertaken from 2003–2004 referred to as the In the Line of Fire project. It constitutes the largest victimisation survey of humanitarian and development workers ever undertaken.
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  Group interpersonal therapy for depression in rural Uganda

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003

  This article, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reports on a controlled clinical trial of group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for the treatment of depression in rural Uganda. Thirty villages were randomly selected; of these, 15 were assigned for studying men and 15 for women.

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