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  External evaluation of roll back malaria: report of RBM stakeholder interviews

  Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization (WHO), 2002

  This report, produced by Health Partners International for Roll Back Malaria (RBM), summarises the findings of interviews conducted as part of the 2002 external evaluation of RBM. Telephone interviews were conducted with a range of stakeholders in seven countries: Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Burkina Faso, Bolivia and India.
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  Pastoralism on the margin

  Minority Rights Group International, 2004

  This report focuses on the sustainability of pastoralism in the lowlands of the Great Rift of East Africa and the Horn, arguing that pastoralism as a mode of production and a way of life has entered a phase of decline, often accompanied by conflict, drought, famine and flooding.The report details the historic evolution and chief characteristics of pastoralism, discussing the eras of colonialism
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  Juvenile Justice in Kenya

  Consortium for Street Children, 2004

  This paper is part of a two-year research and advocacy project examining the situation of the human rights abuses of street children in juvenile justice systems in six countries: Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Romania.
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  How appropriate is software for developing ICT literacy in Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Teacher training institutions in even the poorest African countries are slowly being equipped with computers. Increasingly, teachers are being exposed to new information and communication technologies (ICTs).
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  Comparison of house spraying and insecticide-treated nets for malaria control

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, compares the efficacy of residual house spraying against insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control using data from Africa, Asia and Melanesia. Comparisons of recent initiatives showed that ITNs were at least as effective as house spraying.
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  Unveiling women as pillars of peace: peace building in communities fractured by conflict in Kenya

  Management & Governance Network, UNDP, 2000

  This monograph presents the experiences of peace workers, who the author calls "pillars of peace" in initiating and nurturing peace in post conflict situations in Kenya. The author proposes that conventional methods of peace building do not capture the full range of informal efforts and processes that contribute to nurturing and sustaining peace.
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  Poverty dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper is a micro-level attempt to empirically test hypotheses of economic growth by examining risk management, marginal returns on productive assets, and asset dynamics across settings distinguished by different agroecological and market access conditions, in Kenya and Madagascar.The author claims that macroeconomic growth theories are characterized by three different hypotheses, which hav
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  Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock

  Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative, 2004

  This paper is based on a study exploring households' pathways into, and out of, poverty, with poverty defined from the communities' own perspective.
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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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  Survival and success among African manufacturing firms

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004

  This paper examines why African economies have remained largely unsuccessful despite competition-enhancing economic reforms. In this paper, the authors consider the roles of learning, competition and market imperfections in determining three aspects of firm performance, namely firm exit, firm growth and productivity growth.

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