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  Keeping mothers alive - monitoring maternal mortality in Tanzania

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In the 1990s, Tanzania adopted a strategy to reduce maternal mortality based on raising the status of women, increasing health education, and improving access to family planning. The private health sector also began to play an important role in improving maternity services.
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Merging in the circle

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2003

  This paper argues that the in the formulation of Tanzania's PRSP, the shifting alliances between the three main groups of actors (the state, non-state and donors) included in policy formulation and and those excluded from the process from within these circles, did not sufficiently encompass the wide range of views required for inclusive and transparent poverty oriented policies.
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  Globalisation and skills for development in Rwanda and Tanzania

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This report is based on a study whose overall aim was to create a context-relevant knowledge base of the implications for education and training policy of globalisation in two low-income sub-Saharan African countries, namely, Rwanda and TanzaniaThe report presents a typology of skills identified in each country as being relevant to their country contexts and development needs.
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  Bearers, Buyers and Bureaucrats: the Missing Social World in Gender and Water

  BRIDGE, 2003

  Despite several decades of concern for gender in the water sector, progress towards gender equitable practices has been patchy in the extreme.
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  Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003

  National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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  Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This paper presents evidence that climate warming is diminishing productivity in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.
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  The inequality of social capital: agency, association and the reproduction of chronic poverty.

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper draws on research in Tanzania to question ideas that building social capital through getting institutions right in development can overcome poverty .
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  Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide: Understanding ICTs and their Potential for the Empowerment of Women

  2003

  The "gender digital divide" is used to describe the existing inequalities and biases in access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by women and men. The fact that ICTs have so far been predominantly designed and created within male-dominated environments and that ICT policies are usually formulated by male policy-makers has contributed to this divide.
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  Competing for water: is integrated management an elusive goal?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is rice a suitable crop where water is scarce? What role should government play when over-irrigation threatens to degrade an environment? How can the competing demands of conservationists, farmers, livestock owners and hydroelectricity managers in Tanzania all be satisfied?

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