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  Linking rural livelihoods to poverty reduction strategies in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) have been adopted by Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi in recent years. The resulting focus on decentralisation and participation has not had the desired success, however. How can PRSPs address the problems that poor people face in trying to escape poverty?
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  Including disabled people in water and sanitation initiatives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The link between disability and poverty is clear: two thirds of the world’s disabled people live in low-income communities, with most in rural areas. Water and sanitation facilities are considered basic needs and are central to global development. Yet programmes and service providers continue to ignore the needs of disabled people.
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  Improving the delivery of health and education services in difficult environments: lessons from case studies

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2005

  This report, published by the Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC), summarises the findings of research into how service delivery interventions can be improved in difficult environments. Evidence was obtained from case studies on Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda.
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  Comparison study of Free/Open Source and Proprietary Software in an African context: implementation and policy-making to optimise community access to ICT

  Bridges.org, 2005

  This surveys looks at the software used by public-access computer labs in Namibia, South Africa and Uganda.
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  Achieving sustainable water supply in rural Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Rural water supply projects have often proven unsustainable because they were just that – projects. Water supply has typically been considered a matter of engineering and suffered from the ‘design and build’ approach, which has failed to understand that supplying water is about much more than providing physical infrastructure.
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  Can local governments generate enough revenue to deliver services?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Lack of finance greatly constrains municipalities’ ability to deliver services to poor people. Public finance literature has paid little attention to the potential for redistribution at local government level.
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  Education in Africa: what makes a good SWAP?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Governments and funding agencies are increasingly recognising the need for more secondary and post-basic education as a result of the expansion of primary education. Developing a comprehensive nationally-owned sector-wide strategy would be a good start. Sector wide approaches (SWAPs) to education are being promoted in response to achieving Education for All by 2015.
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  Review of health service delivery in Uganda – general country experience and Northern Uganda

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This paper, published by the Health Systems Resource Centre, analyses health sector interventions in Northern Uganda. The north and eastern regions of Uganda can be seen as difficult environments for service delivery because of the ongoing conflict there and because large areas remain outside government control.
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  Progress reviews and performance assessment in poverty-reduction strategies and budget support: a survey of current thinking and practice

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This report describes and analyses the challenges posed by the monitoring and evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budget support programmes.
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  Adapting to climate change in East Africa: a strategic approach

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of the likely impacts of climate change in three least developed countries in East Africa: Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In the coming decades, climate change is likely to alter temperatures and distribution of rainfall, contribute to sea-level rise and increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in East Africa.

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