Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Governance in Mozambique

Showing 131-140 of 158 results

Pages

  • Document

    Putting access on the agenda: ensuring mobility for people with disabilities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Whilst 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.
  • Document

    Dogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries

    War on Want, 2004
    The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.
  • Document

    Communication strategies in the age of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services: lessons from two African experiences

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    This paper describes the challenges of decentralisation and privatisation of rural services from the perspective of communication strategy development. The author argues that the wave of decentralisation and privatisation in rural services worldwide has created a challenge for rural communities, service providers and local governments.
  • Document

    Condom social marketing: selected case studies

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000
    Social marketing has become increasingly popular among governments and donors as an efficient and effective means of addressing serious health issues in developing countries. In the mid-1980s, condom social marketing (CSM) emerged as an effective tool in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS.
  • Document

    Water for all: improving water resource governance in southern Africa

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    Assessing prospects for effective stakeholder participation in water resource management in southern Africa, this paper examines the experience of countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Tanzania, to draw some important lessons.At a theoretical level, the paper concludes that:improved governance, rather than stakeholder participation, should be t
  • Document

    Gender and reproductive rights: rights-based approach: country pilot projects

    World Health Organization, 2001
    The World Health Organization Making Pregnancy Safer initiative aims to bring human rights principles into maternal and perinatal mortality reduction activities on a national scale.
  • Document

    Corporate responsibility and women’s employment: the cashew nut case

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    In response to the usual emphasis on 'win-win' situations in the CSR agenda, this paper examines the case of cashew production in Mozambique and India. It illustrates the danger of a 'race to the bottom' when companies operating in liberalising sectors face few, if any, incentives for good social and environmental practice.
  • Document

    On relations between the NGOs of the north and Mozambican civil society

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This paper looks at changing relations between civil society, the state and international organisations in Mozambique.
  • Document

    Wild resources theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001
    This paper provides background information on access to natural resources in Southern Africa. Case studies are used from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, to explore customary rights and de facto access to a wide range of wild resources, in particular those of greatest importance to the rural poor.
  • Document

    Water theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002
    The key concern of this paper is with the implications of changes in institutions and policy in the water sector for poor communities, households and individuals. Three case studies are used, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, to illustrate changes in decentralisation, the involvement of stakeholders in decision making, and the role of the private sector.

Pages