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  Scaling up antiretroviral therapy: experience in Uganda: case study (Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral treatment)

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This case study is part of a series entitled Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral treatment, which aims to analyse how governments, civil society organisations, private corporations and others are successfully providing antiretroviral treatment and care to people with HIV/AIDS, even in the most resource-constrained settings.
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  Cross-border issues related to the provision of animal health services with reference to Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper highlights various issues related to provision of animal health services in areas near national boundaries with reference to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia, and also suggests ways of improving service provision and delivery in these areas.
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  Powering rural development: energy management in African schools and hospitals

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Across the developing world, rural schools, hospitals and other public institutions face severe energy problems. How can they be helped to develop sustainable solutions which blend demand-side management, energy efficiency and appropriate new technology? How could rural Energy Service Advisers (ESAs) work with local institutions and the business community to achieve this?
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  Just die quietly: domestic violence and women’s vulnerability to HIV in Uganda

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This paper argues that women are becoming infected with HIV because the state is failing to protect them from domestic violence. It bases the report on 120 interviews with Ugandan women.The paper argues that many women are victims of marital rape.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: a new convergence

  World Bank, 2003

  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers represent both a primary policy device of international development institutions, and an instance of a wider international convergence of public policy around global integration and social inclusion.
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  The Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a Tool to Bridge the Gender Digital Gap: A Case on the Use of a Locally-Developed CD-ROM by Rural Women in Uganda

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2002

  The majority of rural women in Africa have limited or no schooling and usually only speak their local languages. This constrains their capacity to benefit from ICT initiatives which require computer and educational literacy and the ability to understand English. Therefore, ICT projects targeting rural communities in Africa need to address this issue through use of appropriate technologies.
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  Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003

  National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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  Gender Issues in ICT Policy in Developing Countries: An Overview

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2002

  Without explicit attention to integrating a gender perspective into Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policies, the needs of women and girls risk being overlooked.
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  Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide: Understanding ICTs and their Potential for the Empowerment of Women

  2003

  The "gender digital divide" is used to describe the existing inequalities and biases in access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by women and men. The fact that ICTs have so far been predominantly designed and created within male-dominated environments and that ICT policies are usually formulated by male policy-makers has contributed to this divide.
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  Poverty, Knowledge and Policy Processes: A Case Study of Ugandan National Poverty Reduction Policy

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  This report concerns the poverty reduction policy process in Kampala, Uganda. It describes and analyses the actors involved in policy processes at national level, the kinds of knowledge on which the processes draw, and the spaces, formal and informal, in which policy actors engage with each other.

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