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    Evaluating education - participatory performance indicators

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How to identify and measure the desirable outcomes of education? Can donors work with education ministries and students, parents, and teachers to develop realistic indicators to monitor the progress of education projects? How can data generated be analysed, publicised, and used to inform policy debates?
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    A fresh start for teacher resource centres?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do teacher resource centres (TRCs) help to improve learning in schools? Do they result in better quality teaching and learning in the classroom?
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    Back to basics: education for work on the informal side of the developing marketplace

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 1998
    Self-employment has become a major contributor to national economies yet it remains largely invisible in education and training policies. As job opportunities shrink in the formal sector and youth unemployment skyrockets, self-employment may be the only survival option for many. How are governments responding to these changes?
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    Behaving badly? Young men and sexual health

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can young men change their attitudes to sex and sexual health? What methods can be used to challenge their views? Researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and Southampton University considered ways of improving the sexual health of young men in developing countries.
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    The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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    Decentralisation: not necessarily always a good thing?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Decentralisation is in vogue and not just in multi-party democracies. Military dictatorships, one-party states and even authoritarian monarchies have signed up. Amidst this enthusiasm, is there empirical evidence that decentralised regimes are more likely to be pro-poor, responsive and transparent? Have decentralisation and democratisation been naively conflated?
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    Bigger AND better? Expanding community action on HIV/AIDS

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Slowing the spread of HIV and coping with the consequences of AIDS are major challenges for many developing countries. There are now many examples of successful small-scale responses to the disease. Could these strategies work for a larger population? How can non- governmental or community-based organisations (NGOs/CBOs) broaden the impact of their programmes?
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    On trial - house spraying versus treated bednets for malaria control

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Insecticide-treated mosquito nets have replaced house spraying as the preferred method for preventing malaria in many endemic areas. But which is most effective? Entomologists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the South African Medical Research Council reviewed trials of the two strategies in Africa, Asia and Melanesia.
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    Women’s needs for household security and conservation: impossible to reconcile?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) are supposed to combine rural development with the conservation of natural resources. Do they work? How does gender shape the ways local people participate in, and benefit from, ICDPs? Are they implemented with regard to social equity issues? How can women’s role in their planning, management and evaluation be enhanced?
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    FHI/UNAIDS best practices in HIV/AIDS prevention collection

    Family Health International, 2001
    This collection of work is centred on HIV/AIDS prevention in the non-industrialised world and is based on studies performed by FHI's international and local partners in an international HIV prevention, the AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project.The book offers case studies, models and lessons learnt to assist individuals, communities, municipalities, non-governmental organisations, busin

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