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  Global survey on education in emergencies

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2004

  This report presents information gathered by the Global Survey on Education in Emergencies (Global Survey). It attempts to fill a gap in information about how many refugee, displaced and returnee children and youth globally have access to education and the nature of the education they receive.The report consists of three parts.
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  Teacher training: essential for school-based reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education: focus on sub-saharan Africa

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2004

  For teaching information and skills related to HIV/AIDS, teacher training is essential, and complex. In sub-Saharan Africa, up to half of all new HIV infections are occurring among youth under age 25. Since most youth attend school at least for primary education, school-based programmes are a logical place to reach young people.
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  Politics and the PRSP approach: synthesis paper

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper synthesises findings from four country (Bolivia, Georgia, Uganda & Vietnam) case studies on the political dimensions of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach.The authors argue that there are two contrasting visions to the approach behind the PRSP process as follows:The first being that it is an approach offering a potentially transformative agenda of pro-poor r
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  Robust multidimensional spatial poverty comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2003

  This study undertakes a comparative statistical study of poverty in rural versus urban areas in Uganda, Madagascar and Ghana, based on national survey data.The study uses bivariate stochastic dominance techniques to investigate the incidence of poverty, measured in terms of household expenditures per capita and child height-for-age indicators.
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  The role of behavior change in the decline in HIV prevalence in Uganda

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2002

  Accumulating evidence supports the conclusion that HIV prevalence has declined significantly in Uganda during the 1990s, probably accompanied by a somewhat smaller decline in HIV incidence. However, the magnitude of the change at national level is likely to have been smaller than reported in some sources.
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  Impact of carbon value on profitability of improved fallow agroforestry systems in Kigezi highlands, Uganda

  Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 2004

  The economic advantages of improved agro forestry fallow systems over traditional continuous cropping systems are important tools that can be used to influence the choice of land use options at household levels. In Kigezi highlands Uganda, the upper parts of farmers’ crop field terraces are degraded due to continuous cropping.
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  Livelihoods approaches to information and communication in support of rural poverty elimination and food security

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2003

  This report looks at the of information in livelihoods, and makes recommendations on how agencies can capitalise on and integrate the best elements of traditional communication methods and the ICT revolution technologies within the livelihoods approach. Seven key recommendations were identified :
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  Rethinking participation: questions for civil society about the limits of participation in PRSPs

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This discussion paper aims to inform and provoke discussion among civil society organisations engaged in PRSP consultations.It argues that there are serious limitations and constraints to the process as it currently exists, and that the IMF and the World Bank’s focus on poverty is limited to ameliorating the social damage done by the negative impacts of their structural adjustment policies and
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  Household coping strategies in response to the introduction of user charges of social services: a case study on health in Uganda

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) working paper examines the approaches to health care seeking and financing by households. The study examines two poor districts in rural Uganda using a range of qualitative research techniques.
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  Dilemmas of post-conflict transition: lessons from the health sector

  Overseas Development Institute, 1995

  This paper, published by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), examines the experience of the health sector in situations of post-conflict transition in Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

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