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Pro-poor initiatives to reduce poverty in southern Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Pro-poor initiatives are a common feature of measures to commercialise natural resources in southern Africa. Several pro-poor models have been set up to reduce the gap between elites and marginalised groups, urban and rural populations and the rich and poor.DocumentProtecting the environment across borders in southern Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Transfrontier conservation initiatives refer to environmental and wildlife management programmes that cross political boundaries and national borders. These occur in 117 areas of the world. The hope is that a combined approach to ecosystem management will produce positive environmental outcomes, increased revenue from ecotourism, and benefits for local communities.DocumentGet moving: better access to public transport
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Encouraging greater access to transport, including public transport, can transform the lives of disabled people. Improved mobility is crucial to alleviating poverty throughout the developing world as it allows people with disabilities to play an active role in society both economically and socially.DocumentReport of the Southern Africa civil society consultation
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.DocumentPolicy and programmatic measures taken to meet the needs of the elderly: Africa’s response to a budding challenge
Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2004This paper examines the policy and programmatic measures taken so far by African countries to meet the needs of the elderly since 1994.DocumentPutting access on the agenda: ensuring mobility for people with disabilities
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004Whilst developed countries have made progress in making transport services more accessible for people with disabilities, developing countries have lagged behind. However, the human rights approach to disability – seeing every citizen as entitled to be included in social and economic opportunities – is slowly gaining acceptance.DocumentDogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries
War on Want, 2004The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.DocumentHow appropriate is software for developing ICT literacy in Africa?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004Teacher training institutions in even the poorest African countries are slowly being equipped with computers. Increasingly, teachers are being exposed to new information and communication technologies (ICTs).DocumentHelping older people who care for grandchildren orphaned and affected by AIDS
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004An estimated 13 million children under the age of 15 have already lost either one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. A further 40 million children will lose their parents within the next 10 years. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic hits families in Africa and Asia, large numbers of grandparents are assuming responsibility for the care of orphans and vulnerable children.