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  Harnessing new communication technologies for development in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Using new technology to inform people and improve communication systems is a recognised part of the fight against poverty. Recent research shows the extent to which this has been happening in Africa and makes recommendations for future policy to make it more effective
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  Locking away potential: What host countries lose when they keep refugees in camps

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Refugees in Uganda are instructed to stay in the rural agricultural settlements set up for them by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ugandan authorities. Yet a substantial number of refugees are urbanites with entrepreneurial skills and technical qualifications.
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  Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2003

  This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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  Evaluations, strategic planning and log-frames – donor-imposed straitjackets on local NGOs?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Driven by concerns to demonstrate ‘value for money’, bilateral donors and major Northern development agencies are becoming more selective in the types of organisations and activities they will fund and the types of account keeping they demand from recipients. New requirements are forcing small non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in developing countries to change the way they work.
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  Sexually transmitted infections in Sub-Saharan Africa: the use and effectiveness of treatment kits

  Population Services International, 2001

  This document explores the potential of pre-packaged treatment kits for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Passing the buck: money transfer systems: the practice and potential for products in Tanzania and Uganda

  Microsave-Africa, 2001

  This study examines how low income people and micro entrepreneurs send and receive money in Tanzania and Uganda, where financial services and their outreach are very limited. It looks at the ways in which businesses and people send and receive money, looking at what reasons, what costs, and with what risks people transfer money. What formal or informal services exist and how do people use them?
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  Is over population still the problem?: global discourse and reproductive health challenges in the time of HIV/AIDS

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002

  This paper looks at population and women’s reproductive health policies in Africa, specifically Tanzania and Uganda.
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  People in motion: an entitlements approach to Karimojong agro-pastoralism

  Centre for International Development Issues, University of Nijmegen, 2003

  This paper describes and analyses people’s security of access to means of production among the Karimojong herd-owners who inhabit the North-Eastern districts of Uganda. It claims that Ugandan statutory land management policy and law undermines the customary tenure system, thereby threatening access security for Karimojong agro-pastoralists.
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  Report of the South-South dialogue on defence transformation

  SSRonline, 2003

  This report summarises the findings and experiences of a conference that took place in Accra, Ghana, between the 27th and the 30th of May 2003. The objective of the conference was to promote the debate about defense transformation in the context of Ghana, inject local content and transparency, and enhance Ghana’s ability to gain ownership of the process.
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  Poverty dynamics in Uganda: 1992 to 2000

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper focuses on the extent and nature of chronic poverty in Uganda over the period 1992 to 2000, and the likely implications for policy, in particular the Poverty Eradication Action (PEAP).

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