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    One up on AIDS - might better data help?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Gender analysis is central to a deeper understanding of HIV transmission, argues an Institute of Development Studies BRIDGE report, given that sexual behaviour is a crucial factor in spreading the disease. It is now understood that current global levels of HIV and AIDS are far higher than previously thought.
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    Read all about it. How relevant are printed materials for farmers in Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    It is often assumed that many grassroots farmers are illiterate and that print is an ineffective means of communication. What little printed information is produced is usually aimed at resource-rich, commercial farmers.
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    New solution? Can a sectoral approach to education meet international targets?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The late 1990s saw a shift in many funding agency education support packages from relatively small, often stand-alone education projects towards sector wide approaches (SWA or SWAps). When and how are such larger, broad-based system support programmes effective?
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    Health at a price: how are Uganda's poorest coping with user charges?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What impact does the introduction of healthcare charges have on poor household budgets? Institute of Development Studies researchers looked into households and communities in two poor rural districts of Uganda. To what extent do charges levied either at public facilities (legitimately or not) or by private sector providers, influence the way households go about seeking and financing healthcare?
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    Learning and not learning. Community conservation policies in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Since 1990 concepts, policies and practices of wildlife conservation and management in sub-Saharan Africa have shifted towards a community-based approach, part of a global move towards community-based conservation. This trend emphatically counters earlier policies of 'Fortress Conservation' that sought to sequester local people from wildlife.
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    A trouble shared. How people are learning to cope with HIV/AIDS the participatory way

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What could be more difficult to discuss in public than sex and death? Dealing with HIV/AIDS means facing up to these sensitive topics.
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    Shunning the work of strangers. Hiring smallholder labour in two Ugandan villages

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The market in labour for agricultural smallholdings seems to be underdeveloped in Africa. This weakness has up till now been attributed to supply and demand factors. However, according to former Institute of Development Studies economist Alison Evans (now at the World Bank) this perspective is too limited.
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    Subsidy or self-respect? Lessons from Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In large parts of Bangladesh, people in both rural and urban areas practice open defecation. Despite 30 years of efforts by international agencies and non-governmental organisations to improve environmental sanitation, it is hard to find even 100 villages out of nearly 85 000 that are completely sanitised.
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    Lost in space: Locating the chronically poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    People living in certain areas are often vulnerable to similar risks, increasing their chance of becoming chronically poor. At the same time, in some poor areas not everyone is poor, and not everyone who is poor will remain so for long. Where do ‘pockets of poverty’ exist and why? Under what conditions can they become ‘poverty traps’?
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    Tackling adult illiteracy: encouraging news from Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As the number of adult literacy programmes grows, is there evidence that they work? How can we evaluate whether those who have passed through adult education schemes have achieved basic literacy? Should donors do more to fund adult literacy or instead continue their focus on achieving the goal of universal primary education?

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