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    Wildlife in East Africa: assessing livelihood impacts

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    This paper describes how key concepts of the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach were incorporated into methods for assessing the impact of wildlife projects in East Africa. It shows that the SL approach can be applied not only to planning new projects, but also to the review of existing ones – even where these were not planned with SL concepts in mind.
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    What mothers do: responses to childhood fever on the Kenyan Coast

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do rural and urban mothers differ in their choice of health providers when their children are ill? How does proximity to different health facilities affect a mother’s decision? These questions are important for health planners responding to rising urban poverty and ill health, as sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates of urbanisation in the developing world.
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    Time after time - why some children keep coming back to hospital

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are Kenyan children more likely to become severely ill if they have recently been in hospital? A study by the Kenya Medical Research Institute and the UK University of Oxford followed nearly four thousand children from birth through their early lives when they are at most risk from fatal infectious diseases.
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    Unhappy alliance – does integrated reproductive healthcare work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the best strategies to tackle the spread of HIV and improve women’s reproductive health? Since 1994, the international approach has been to integrate sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV services with primary healthcare and family planning programmes. But how successful has this been?
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    Beating the competition – success in Kenya’s hotel furniture industry

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Debate on African manufacturing tends to be pessimistic about local producers’ ability to compete against foreign rivals. Why then is Kenya’s hotel furniture industry flourishing? An Institute of Development Studies working paper based on research carried out in 1997, shows that Kenya’s leading hotels source 95 per cent of their furniture from local manufacturers.
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    Nature or nurture? Child survival after the death of a sibling

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why do children have a lower chance of survival if one of their brothers or sisters has died? Are biological or cultural factors responsible for this phenomenon? Research by Macro International, USA and the UK University of Southampton compared the incidence and causes of infant deaths in Bolivia, Kenya, Peru and Tanzania.
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    Expecting infection? Preventing malaria and anaemia during pregnancy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In malaria endemic areas, pregnant women are more likely to be infected with malaria than other adults, particularly during the first pregnancy. They may not have symptoms of malaria, but infection can lead to severe anaemia and low birthweight, increasing maternal and infant mortality. What can health services do to lower the risk for pregnant women?
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    African timber: is demand outstripping sustainable supply?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Rapid urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa has generated increasing demand for timber from traders with links to processors and extractors in rural areas. But how sustainable is the supply of wood?
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    Net loss? Mosquito nets and malaria in African children

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    All children who live in an endemic area become infected with malaria at some time. They gain immunity with each infection, which reduces their risk of severe malaria as they grow older. Insecticide-treated mosquito nets are used to reduce exposure to the parasite, but how does this affect the development of immunity?
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    Catalyst for local democracy? Land reform in Eastern and Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    From Eritrea to South Africa land tenure laws are in a state of flux. In every nation in eastern and southern Africa, apart from those wracked by conflict, tenure reform is either under discussion or coming on stream. What is driving this change? What are the consequences for landholders, for democratization and the nature of state power? Who are the potential winners and losers?

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