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    Gender gaps and primary schooling: promising policy options for sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Belief that investment in girls’ and women’s education will result in broader development gains and poverty reduction has received widespread acceptance internationally. But what can be done to close the primary education gender gap between girls and boys? How can we achieve universal primary education by 2015?
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    From peace to prosperity? Understanding changes in poverty in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does political and economic stability improve people’s livelihoods and their quality of life? Does stability increase the success of development projects? Uganda has recently enjoyed a period of relative economic calm, leading researchers from the University of Bath to ask: how have poverty reduction programmes fared during this time? How far is success dependent on local conditions?
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    Parental participation - boosting democracy in school governance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In all countries parents ‘participate’ in the choice of schools for their children and in school development through the work of school governing bodies. But what does parental participation mean in the context of primary schooling in Uganda?
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    Slow progress? Monitoring HIV disease in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Understanding HIV disease progression is critical for planning healthcare strategies in developing countries. What is the best way to monitor disease progression in the absence of laboratory tests? How does HIV/AIDS in sub- Saharan Africa differ from developed regions? A study by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Uganda Virus Research Institute addressed these issues.
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    Injecting caution: re-thinking vaccination for HIV-positive Ugandans

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Infection with the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, is a frequent and serious problem for HIV-infected adults. A polysaccharide vaccine is currently licensed and available, and is recommended in the USA and Europe. But should this be policy in sub-Saharan Africa?
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    Children with communication disabilities in Uganda – listening to their needs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can community services help children with communication problems? What is the best way to identify those most in need of help? A study in Eastern Uganda by the UK Institute of Child Health used a simple social survey to detect communication difficulties in children.
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    Resettling refugees: improving the record of failure

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Development projects displace over ten million people annually – a startling statistic with severe consequences for the affected populations. Why have resettlement guidelines, drawn-up by global institutions, had such limited success in averting these catastrophic effects? Why do resettlement projects fail?
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    Pro-poor tourism: putting poverty at the heart of mass tourism

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How does tourism affect the lives of the poor and what is the relevance of tourism to the poverty agenda? What are the impacts (positive and negative) and how can they be better understood? What factors encourage or constrain economic participation of the poor in the tourist industry? Can tourism be pro- poor?
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    Catalyst for local democracy? Land reform in Eastern and Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    From Eritrea to South Africa land tenure laws are in a state of flux. In every nation in eastern and southern Africa, apart from those wracked by conflict, tenure reform is either under discussion or coming on stream. What is driving this change? What are the consequences for landholders, for democratization and the nature of state power? Who are the potential winners and losers?
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    Why wait for post-conflict reconstruction?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Conflict is a major source of poverty in many developing countries and it also affects neighbouring countries. Why not try and avoid the human and economic costs during conflict? What economic strategies would be most fruitful? Research from the University of Oxford examined how Afghanistan, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda ran their economies during war.

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