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    How bioenergy projects could boost rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Some 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and over 2 billion rely on biomass for their cooking and heating needs. Across the developing world there are encouraging examples of small-scale initiatives developing and transforming bioenergy resources into cleaner and more convenient forms of energy. How can they be scaled up?
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    Worker retention in human resources for health: catalysing and tracking change

    The Capacity Project, 2009
    There is increasingly widespread commitment to initiatives to attract and retain skilled workers, especially in rural areas. Retention continues to be a serious challenge in the human resources for health (HRH) crisis. This brief from the Capacity Project updates and documents a previously published resource paper and technical brief which focus on the area of worker retention.
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    Lessons learned on the use of power and drivers of change analyses in development cooperation

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2005
    This review compares and contrasts different donor approaches to conducting Power and Drivers of Change (DOC) analysis, and looks at what is being done with the findings, in order to learn lessons for future work.
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    Improving health services and strengthening health systems: adopting and implementing innovative strategies - an exploratory review in twelve countries

    World Health Organization, 2006
    In recent years, a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, the World Health Organization(WHO) commissioned this exploratory study to examine more closely the track record of these strategies in twelve low-income countries.
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    The challenges of managing childhood illness in Kenya and Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya and Tanzania, an average of 115 die before the age of five. In response to this high rate of mortality, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness was rolled out nationally in 1998 in Tanzania, and in 2002 in Kenya. However, research finds that training coverage is low and implementation is poor in both countries.
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    Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.
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    What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment has failed because the policies have sidestepped the developmental needs of Africa.
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    Community self-mobilisation to end open defecation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).
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    Microfinance and environmental sustainability at selected sites in Tanzania and Kenya

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008
    Although development practitioners increasingly acknowledge the positive impact of microfinance on poverty reduction, less is known about the environmental effects of microfinance schemes. Since 1999, a number of microfinance projects have been implemented in East Africa as a means to promote sustainable development and conservation.
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    The Great Lakes Pact and the rights of displaced people: a guide for civil society

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent conflict.

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