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  Uganda takes control of its relationships with donors

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Uganda is typically a low-income country with low levels of domestic revenue. 48 % of the government’s expenditure is provided through donor aid. Despite this high level of dependency, networks of trust between government officials and their donors have allowed the Ugandan government to have a control over the country’s development process.
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  Assessing the vulnerability of women street traders to HIV/AIDS: a comparative analysis of Uganda and South Africa

  Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2004

  This HEARD study examines women street traders' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Uganda. The paper examines how conditions of employment in the informal economy influence women’s social and economic marginalisation. It then goes on to explore how this is linked to the social and behavioural dynamics that influence HIV/AIDS.
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  Mothers' education but not fathers' education, household assets or land ownership is the best predictor of child health inequalities in rural Uganda

  International Journal for Equity in Health, 2004

  This article, published in the International Journal for Equity and Health, reports on the factors influencing child health inequalities in rural Uganda.
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  Resilience and high performance amidst conflict, epidemics and extreme poverty : the Lacor Hospital, northern Uganda

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This case study describes how the Lacor hospital has grown into a 474-bed centre of medical excellence, setting an example for the rest of the health system and helping to build health care capacity for the whole country.
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  Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda

  2003

  Domestic violence, including marital rape, is exposing Ugandan women to HIV infection. This report is based on 120 interviews with women across Uganda and further interviews with government officials, NGOs, police, community leaders and traditional healers. Most of the women see sex with husbands as a marital obligation and domestic violence as an inevitable part of marriage.
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  Shared aquatic ecosystems of East Africa: status and trends

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2002

  The East African Community (EAC) initiated a process to prepare common guidelines for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of shared aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of East Africa.
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  Transformative social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), discusses the concept of social protection and the ways in which social protection policy has worked in practice, drawing on examples from Uganda.It claims that social protection has been popularly perceived as “social welfare programmes for poor countries”, consisting of costly targeted transfers to economically inac
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  Poverty reduction strategies and relevant learning in higher agricultural education: case studies from Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper analyses agricultural higher education in relation to poverty reduction strategies in four African countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.The paper addresses three key issues in the four African countries:how the PRSPs are reflected in official policies, implementation plans and fund allocations to agricultural educationhow case study countries agricultural educ
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  African Economic Outlook 2003/2004

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The third edition of the African Economic Outlook assesses recent economic changes and likely evolutions and challenges on the continent.
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  Resisting repression: legislative and political obstacles to civic space in southern and eastern Africa

  CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2004

  This study focuses on the legislative frameworks and country practices relating to freedom of association, expression and assembly in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. The study focuses on the grave and worsening situation in Zimbabwe, as part of an advocacy intervention under the Civil Society Watch Programme.

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