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  Policy and programmatic measures taken to meet the needs of the elderly: Africa’s response to a budding challenge

  Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2004

  This paper examines the policy and programmatic measures taken so far by African countries to meet the needs of the elderly since 1994.
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  Trade and the consolidation of regional economic relations in the Great Lakes Region of Central and Eastern Africa: critical reflections

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2002

  This paper asks whether the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central and Eastern Africa, consisting of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), can be seen as constituting a single political region, and assesses the prospects for economic integration in the region.
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  Mainstreaming gender into HIV/AIDS action: priorities for interventions focusing on women and girls

  GDNet document store, 2004

  In the formulation of Kenya’s National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan (KNASP) of 2000-05, it was recognised that the impact of the epidemic on women was strikingly different from that on men: the incidence of HIV/AIDS amongst women was rising more quickly, and women were being infected at an earlier age than men were.This paper draws on the findings of two national field studies and on a best practice
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  Assessing the value of climate forecast information for pastoralists: evidence from southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya

  Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2003

  This paper explores the value of external climate forecast information to pastoralists in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
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  Working-age adult mortality and primary school attendance in rural Kenya

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2004

  This paper examines the impact of working-age adult mortality on child primary school attendance in Kenya.
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  Can urban housing regulations be pro-poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Bureaucracy is a significant barrier to providing affordable shelter. Slums are often the result of inappropriate regulatory frameworks. High standards, restrictive regulations and complex procedures force countless people into informal settlements. What can be done to ensure that formal planning systems become more transparent and start to work on behalf of the poor?
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  The experience of sexual coercion among young people in Kenya

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004

  This research article, published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, analyses data on non-consensual sex among young people aged 10–24 in Nyeri, Kenya. Of those who were sexually experienced, 21 per cent of females and 11 per cent of males had experienced coercive (forced) sex. The perpetrators were usually intimate partners, including boyfriends, girlfriends and husbands.
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  The role of women in natural resource management in Kenya

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2004

  This paper examines the roles of women in natural resource conservation in Kenya, identifying the major research gaps.
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  Debating GM crops

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the US and Europe, perhaps the main battleground today is the developing world.
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  Biotechnology for Kenya

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Having ‘missed out’ on the Green Revolution, can biotechnology succeed in Africa where previous efforts have fallen short?

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