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With an end in sight: strategies from the UNIFEM trust fund to eliminate violence against women
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000This UNIFEM report explores the power of collective action in ending violence against women, using case studies from seven countries. Chapter one looks at projects in Kenya, Nigeria and Honduras that established support networks and community-based mechanisms to change behavioural and cultural patterns.DocumentEconomic mobility in South Africa
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000This paper addresses economic mobility as it pertains to labour markets in KwaZulu-Natal using the KwaZulu Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) data. It adopts both univariate and multivariate techniques.DocumentAre wage adjustments an effective mechanism for poverty alleviation?: some simulations for domestic and farm workers
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000The South African Department of Labour's recent call for public submissions and public comment on the issue of minimum wages and conditions of employment for domestic and farm workers has bought these issues to the fore. An analysis of the first of these two issues, namely wages, will place into sharp focus the stringent trade-offs faced by the Department of Labour in this part of the workforce.DocumentThe long dry season: crop-livestock linkages in Southern Mali
Drylands Programme, IIED, 2000This article discusses agro-pastoralist exchanges in Mali. This has increase following the Sahelian droughts of the 1970s and 1980s, in which pastoralists have moved southwards with their herds, into wetter, more productive environments; cultivators are increasingly investing in livestock as the plough replaces the hoe.DocumentVocational training for refugees: a case study from Tanzania
Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2001Report concerns the evaluation of ongoing skills training programmes for the 10,000 young Burundian refugees entering adulthood each year in the refugee camps, with a view to expanding them into a wider programme based in the refugee camps.DocumentNonfarm income, inequality and poverty in rural Egypt and Jordan
World Bank, 2001This article uses decomposition analysis to examine the impact of different sources of income (including nonfarm income) on poverty and inequality in rural Egypt and Jordan.Conclusions: While nonfarm income reduces poverty and improves income distribution in Egypt, in Jordan nonfarm income goes mainly to the rich and thus tends to increase rural inequality.DocumentInternational policies - African realities: report from an electronic roundtable
Africa Action, 2001Book detailing an electronic roundtable discussion that took place between January and May 2000.DocumentThe sociology of insecurity: cattle rustling and banditry in North-Western Kenya
African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2000Report from a study which analyses new forms of banditry and cattle rustling in north-western Kenya.DocumentConflict resolution in a turbulent region: the case of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Sudan
African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2000The paper examines IGAD’s patient and quite effective role in managing and resolving conflict within the Horn of Africa, especially within Sudan. It gives an overview of conflicts in the region, and Sudan in particular.DocumentA review of changes in rangeland vegetation and livestock populations for Northern Kenya
Pastoral Risk Management on East African Rangelands (at Utah State University), 1999This review explores environmental change in northern and south-central Kenya, roughly covering three decades from the 1960s to the 1990s.Pages