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  Public procurement: lessons from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  This paper presents a comparative analysis of the public procurement system in three East African countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
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  Environmental movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: a political ecology of power and conflict

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002

  This paper critically examines environmental movements in Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on two prominent cases: the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People of Nigeria's Niger Delta and the Green Belt Movement of Kenya.Its thesis is that environmental movements in Africa operate within a transformative logic in which struggles for power over environmental resources connect broader popular soci
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  Policy (in) coherence in European Union support to developing countries: a three country case study

  ActionAid International, 2003

  What is the impact of a range of EU policies on poor people in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya? This paper examines key policy areas (including trade, aid, agricultural policies and support to Foreign Direct Investment) to assess the coherence of EU policy in supporting development.
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  Kenya: Non-governmental health care provision

  Harvard School of Public Health, 1995

  Impressive gains in health have been made since independence in Kenya. Mortality rates have fallen and average life expectancy has risen, achievements made in part by substantial investments by the government in health with active participation from the private sector.
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  Surmounting challenges: procurement of antiretroviral medicines in low- and middle-income countries

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003

  As the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in low- and middle-income countries has fallen in recent years, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations have been able to start developing treatment programmes for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
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  Community-based animal health workers in Kenya: a case study of Mwingi District

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  At policy level in Kenya, veterinarians have expressed concern about the ability of community-based animal health workers (CAHWs) to diagnose diseases and use veterinary drugs correctly.
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  Community-based animal health workers in pastoralist areas of Kenya: a study on selection processes, impact and sustainability

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This report describes a study in three pastoralist districts of Kenya to compare perceptions of livestock keepers at community level with policy makers at central level.
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  Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research:
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  Do African manufacturing firms learn from exporting?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002

  This paper examines two explanations for the positive association between export-participation status and productivity: self-selection of the relatively more efficient plants into exporting learning by exporting. It uses panel data on manufacturing firms in four African countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe.It finds:consistent with the learning-by-exporting
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  The social context of perception of AIDS risk and sexual behaviour in Kenya

  The Division of Social Statistics, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002

  This study examines how people assess their risk of contracting HIV at the community level in Kenya and how they relate their sexual experiences to the risk of HIV infection.

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