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  Infrastructure is the key to poverty reduction in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  African infrastructure development lags behind other regions. The lack of rural roads, telecommunications, electrification and water services is weakening poverty reduction efforts. Poor infrastructure directly affects poverty and requires urgent attention.
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  Linking policies and budgets: implementing medium term expenditure frameworks in a PRSP context

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper focuses on the effectiveness of Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs) in offering a more practical approach to the implementation of the strategies laid out in the PRSPs (Povery Reduction Strategy Papers). It is based on nine country case studies which investigated the experience of implementing MTEFs in a PRSP context.
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  A place to live: women's inheritance rights in Africa

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2005

  This paper examines women's differential needs and challenges for obtaining housing. The report grew out of a consultative survey of women in 10 African countries, including interviews with individuals and members of government, and workshops with local experts.
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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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  Can ICTs fight poverty in Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Over half of the population in Africa cannot read or write. Information needs are critical both for personal development and educational achievement. However, few practical activities supporting information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance such skills are in place in African schools.
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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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  Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2004

  In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.
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  Towards an effective Protected Areas Network in Africa: experience in assessing protected area management effectiveness and future proposals

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This report summarises contemporary African experience with assessment of management effectiveness, drawing on a range of case studies (in South Africa, Congo Basin, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Central Africa), including outputs from a workshop organised by WWF and the World Bank in Kribi, Cameroon in June 2002 and subsequent assessments.
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  Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.
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  Integrating reproductive health: myth and ideology

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 1999

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, explores the gap between rhetoric on the integration of HIV and reproductive health services, and actual progress made. The paper compares the health systems of Ghana, Kenya and Zambia with that of South Africa to examine progress on integration since 1994.

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