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  Cross-border issues related to the provision of animal health services with reference to Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper highlights various issues related to provision of animal health services in areas near national boundaries with reference to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia, and also suggests ways of improving service provision and delivery in these areas.
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  Accidental damage – what is the outlook for unwanted babies?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  ‘Unintended’ pregnancies are either ‘unwanted’ or ‘mistimed’ (coming sooner than desired). What does this mean for a child’s health? Researchers from the University of London tackle this question using demographic and health survey results from Bolivia, Egypt, Kenya, Peru and the Philippines.
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  Things fall apart: collapse of the Nigerian industry

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Nigeria has plentiful natural resources, the largest domestic market in Africa and an abundant and cheap labour force. Why, then, has its industrial performance been so disappointing? What capability factors may explain this? Is there any prospect of increasing Nigeria’s industrial capacity to reverse its slide into industrial marginalisation?
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  Rethinking principles of assessment in complex emergencies: the food economy alternative

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  When aid agencies respond to food needs in situations of chronic conflict and political instability (SCCPI), do they consider livelihoods carefully enough? How can they better analyse the effects of hazards on household access to food and income? Is it possible to increase communication between political economists and food security analysts?
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  Deadly silence: barriers to communicating HIV/AIDS in schools

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  An estimated 11.8 million 15 to 24-year-olds are living with HIV worldwide. Schools are the obvious place to teach young people about the risks of infection. But what is the best way to do this? Research by ActionAid identifies a number of silences in communication which are hindering efforts in the classroom.
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Tax reforms and revenue mobilization in Kenya

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2003

  Kenya embarked on massive tax reforms in 1986, but what is known about the performance of the reforms in terms of raising the revenue mobilization capacity of the tax system? Did the reforms mitigate Kenya's perpetual fiscal imbalances?
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  Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003

  National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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  Valuing alternative land-use options in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area of Kenya

  International Livestock Research Institute, 2002

  This study aims to provide information to help inform the search for landuse activities that will lead to protection of wildlife corridors and dispersal areas in the Kitengela wildlife dispersal area, whilst at the same time, maximising returns from the land. A formal household survey was carried out on a relatively small sample of 35.
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  Taking charge of the future: pastoral institution building in Northern Kenya

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2002

  This paper examines the Wajir Pastoral Development Project (WPDP) that addresses a wide range of issues affecting pastoral livelihoods, such as animal and human health care, water supply, conflict and drought management, education, restocking, and credit.

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