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    African distance learning: reaching parts other education systems cannot reach?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can non-formal radio and correspondence courses provide basic education to Africans bypassed by the school system? What are the key constraints, problems and success factors in the field of distance education in Africa? Could greater commitment of resources to distance education plug discriminatory gaps in African formal education systems?
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    The consequences of refugee flows and managing the aftermath

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is the impact of refugees always negative? Are governments that accept refugees justified in depicting them as a burden? Or are refugees potential agents of development? Could support of livelihood activities enable refugees to lessen their dependence on aid and reduce tension with their hosts? Could locals benefit from refugee camp infrastructure when refugees go home?
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    HIV/AIDS, poverty and schooling: an AIDS epidemic or a poverty epidemic?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Apocalyptic assumptions about the impact of high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates may be unhelpful, as they obscure the complex nature of the development problems facing affected populations. In the area of education, new evidence from Uganda and Tanzania suggests that the impact of HIV/AIDS may not be as simple or direct as has been assumed.
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    Education for repatriation: providing refugees with vocational skills

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The international community provides protection and assistance to 350 000 Burundian refugees in 10 camps in western Tanzania. With 10 000 Burundian refugees entering adulthood in the camps each year and the prospect for return uncertain, there is much scope for boredom, apathy and crime. What form of education is relevant and stimulating for such refugee populations?
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    Who is destroying the Serengeti-Mara? Commerce and agropastoralism in the rangelands

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The East African rangelands are rapidly becoming cultivated. Are wildlife biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods being threatened? If so, who is responsible? This study assesses the arguments. It challenges the widely-held beliefs that conversion is due to the growth, poverty and subsistence needs of agropastoralist populations.
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    Whose land is it anyway? In-migrants and exclusion in the Serengeti-mara

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The conversion of East African rangelands to cultivation is giving rise to conflicts over different land uses. How can tensions be resolved? This study explores the impact of such changes on different groups and asks questions about the implications for their livelihoods and the environment. It also seeks pathways to limit conflict in the buffer zones around the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem.
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    Language as a barrier to learning? The implementation of educational language policy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How viable is English as a teaching medium when it is the first language for only a very small number of the population? Will students even need to use English after finishing school? Are schools and teachers adequately prepared to teach using English?
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    Place matters: the challenges of survival in remote rural areas

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are the inhabitants of remote rural areas (RRAs) chronically poor? Do we know enough about the effects of risk, exclusion and marginalisation for RRA residents? What is the relationship between remoteness and conflict? Do decentralisation and economic liberalisation offer any prospect of escape from spatial poverty traps?
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    Tackling poverty: getting down to business?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is the impact of poverty on businesses operating in developing countries? Can Southern businesses play a role in the struggle to eliminate poverty? What distinguishes a paternalistic company from one which understands corporate social responsibility?
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    Biting back - dog bite data challenges rabies dogma

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Officially, rabies accounts for only one percent of deaths due to infectious disease worldwide. But are these figures accurate? Researchers from the UK's University of Edinburgh and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Tanzanian Ministry of Water and Livestock Development estimated human rabies mortality in Tanzania.

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