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  UK’s call for action on HIV/AIDS

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This DFID policy document on HIV/AIDS outlines key issues in the global epidemic and the UK’s commitment to tackling the epidemic.
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  Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2003

  This paper examines the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. The authors present levels of urban-rural differences for several African countries (where data is available) and find that living standards in rural areas lag far behind those in urban areas.
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  Where Are The Girls? Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique: Their lives during and after war

  2004

  This study contributes to what is currently known about the experiences of girls in fighting forces as distinct from those of boys. It is meant to assist policymakers in developing policies and programs to help protect and empower girls in situations of armed conflict and postwar reconstruction.
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  The politics of poverty: aid in the new cold war

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This report sets out mistakes that have been made in the past in relation to the politicisation of aid. Based on case studies in Afghanistan and Uganda, it also shows how they are being repeated. The authors argue that the growing politicisation of aid threatens to obscure the goal of poverty reduction.
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  Developing Gender-sensitive Local Services

  One World Action, 2000

  In many developing countries public services are poor or non-existent for the majority of people, and in others, including European countries, new forms of public service provision, including contracting-out and public-private partnerships are being considered.
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  Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB workshop on women's land rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights. It brought together a broad group of participants covering NGO, grassroots, government, UN agency staff, researchers, activists, lawyers, and women living with HIV/AIDS.
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  Lessons learned from mainstreaming HIV into the poverty eradication action plan in Uganda

  John Snow International UK, 2003

  In 1991 Uganda was the first country to adopt a multi-sectoral approach to HIV. It has since been hailed as a Sub Saharan African success story. HIV prevalence has declined from a high of 20% in 1992 to 6.1% in 2001.
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  PRSP Connections: Issue 10

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2004

  This issue of PRSP Connections covers the following topics:Update on DFID’s Engagement with the PRSP Process -following the completion of a survey of DFID’s engagement with PRS processes and with other development partners.Next Generation PRSs: Issues Arising - this article briefly explores issues and challenges arising for countries reviewing their PRSPs, that include deepening govern
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  The missing links: Uganda’s economic reforms and pro-poor growth

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This report analyses the direct and the indirect channels of achieving pro-poor growth for the case of Uganda where high economic growth rates and remarkable poverty reduction have coincided since the late 1980s.
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  Toward country-led development: a multi-partner evaluation of the Comprehensive Development Framework: findings from six country case studies

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This report presents the findings of six case studies evaluating the implementation of the World Bank’s Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF): Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Romania, Uganda and Vietnam.Findings include:there has been some progress in implementing the CDF principles, particularly where one or more of the principles have been applied over a number of years, but these p

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