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  Taps and toilets: accessible water supply and sanitation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Disabled people have the least access to water and sanitation services, which adds to their isolation, poor health and poverty.
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  Gender imbalance in secondary schools

  Forced Migration Review, 2005

  This brief paper looks at why there are significantly fewer girls attending secondary schools in refugee camps than boys. The paper looks at the causes of the gender gap in schooling from a study in the Rhino Refugee Camp, Uganda.
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  Migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa. It identifies the importance of migration to the poor, discusses migration policies, key issues and policy gaps in each country, as well as the region as a whole.
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  Uganda’s minimum health care package: rationing within the minimum?

  Department of Health Sciences, Uganda Martyrs University, 2004

  The concept of a minimum health care package (MHCP) has been used as a means of setting priorities for national health budgets.
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  A review of human resource for health in Uganda

  Department of Health Sciences, Uganda Martyrs University, 2003

  Expenditure on health workers forms a significant proportion of total health expenditure in many countries. Evidence suggests that health systems in developing countries are understaffed and that health workers are badly distributed within the system.
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  Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroots Women's Perspective on Good Governance

  United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2004

  Despite their contributions to the survival of their households and the well-being of their communities, low-income women are often excluded from planning and decision-making processes. These women are instead perceived as either 'beneficiaries' or 'clients'. In either case, poor women are not seen as citizens who can play an important role in transforming governance.
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  Refugees in Kyangwali settlement: constraints on economic freedom

  Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2002

  This working paper asserts that economic rights and freedoms are essential for refugees to enjoy dignified lives, and need to be considered along with more salient rights and freedoms. It focuses on the Kyangwali settlement in Hoima district, Uganda, and the economic freedoms and constraints experienced by the 7000 refugees, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan, who live there.
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  Treating depression in developing countries

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  In the past 50 years there has been a rapid growth in the development and application of effective treatments for many child and adult psychiatric disorders in developed countries. However the real challenge is to find how these treatments can best be adopted by developing countries with limited resources.
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  Making matters worse: links between HIV/AIDS and mental health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  HIV/AIDS sufferers and children whose families are infected with the virus may suffer mental health problems arising directly or indirectly from living with the virus. HIV infected people have to deal with the stigma attached in some communities to being HIV positive.
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  Land problems in Nakivale settlement and the implications for refugee protection in Uganda

  Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2003

  Ugandan refugee policy is characterised by the encampment of refugees in designated and enclosed settlements in rural areas, removed from the mainstream economic and political activity of the country.

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