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  Decentralisation and poverty reduction: the reality in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Although decentralisation is often heralded as a means to promote democracy and poverty reduction, there is little reliable evidence to prove these claims. In fact, ruling parties and ethnic elites in Africa have used decentralisation to further strengthen their own power and influence at a local level. New research argues that on its own, decentralization will not reduce poverty.
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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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  Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they seldom manage to cover their running costs.
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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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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.
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  Does investing in education reduce poverty? Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Three broad facts about education have emerged from recent research. Firstly, almost universally education is found to lift people out of poverty. Secondly, when a comparison is made between investing in education and other forms of investment, the returns from investing in education are on average lower.
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  Organized labour in the 21st century

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.
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  Learning to compete: African development responses to globalisation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  At the beginning of the 21st century much of Africa still faces massive challenges to successful economic and social development. But how should African countries respond to the imperatives of globalisation and pro-poor growth?
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  Unhappy alliance – does integrated reproductive healthcare work?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What are the best strategies to tackle the spread of HIV and improve women’s reproductive health? Since 1994, the international approach has been to integrate sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV services with primary healthcare and family planning programmes. But how successful has this been?
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  Consensus or conflict? Time for a reality check on community-based sustainable development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Global consensus emerged in the 1990s that the key to sustainable development is local- level solutions. Such approaches are evident across a wide range of sectors and in the policies of governments, donors and NGOs. All root for shared management of natural resources across the board, based on the assumption that communities are homogenous and consensual. Yet, how real is community- consensus?

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