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    Co-operation or competition? Microfinance developments in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Microfinance institutions (MFIs) began as community-based savings and credit organisations: working practices were defined by local needs. What has changed? Microfinance now focuses on financial sustainability and some MFIs have become banks - of a sort. Others have developed cooperative linkages with commercial banks. What are the long-term implications of these changes?
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    A fresh start for teacher resource centres?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do teacher resource centres (TRCs) help to improve learning in schools? Do they result in better quality teaching and learning in the classroom?
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    Read all about it! Getting books to pupils in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do pupils in Africa gain access to books? Which methods of getting books to students and teachers work best? Recent research in Ghana, Tanzania, Mali, South Africa, Mozambique and Kenya, examined different approaches to book provision including school or classroom-based libraries, teacher support centres and mobile libraries.
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    Due south: how does direct funding affect donor-NGO relationships?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How has direct funding affected southern NGO relationships with northern donors? What do such changes mean for north-south NGO links? How does it affect the people involved? Research by the UK-based International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) examines the impact of direct funding as an instrument for aid, in Bangladesh, Peru and Kenya.
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    Who gains from the boom in African fresh vegetable exports?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Fresh vegetables exports from Africa to the European Union have increased rapidly in the past decade. In the UK, what was once a small- scale trade in Asian vegetables such as chillies or okra sold to wholesale markets, is now high volume and dominated by the biggest supermarkets. Their requirements have transformed horticultural export trade in Africa.
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    Joint action: can clustering build industrial capacity in Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    African development is closely linked to small scale industry. The employment provided by small firms, although low paying, enables families to survive, to educate their children, and in some cases, to move out of poverty.
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    Double speak on reproductive health: Triumph of politics over science?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Coping with the AIDS pandemic calls for a unified strategic response from health managers and policy makers. A central tenet of the International Conference on Population and Development was that reproductive health services (family planning, maternal health and sexually transmitted disease prevention) should henceforth be integrated.
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    Back to basics: education for work on the informal side of the developing marketplace

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 1998
    Self-employment has become a major contributor to national economies yet it remains largely invisible in education and training policies. As job opportunities shrink in the formal sector and youth unemployment skyrockets, self-employment may be the only survival option for many. How are governments responding to these changes?
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    Kenya - the realities of restocking destitute pastoralists

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Presently, NGOs, governments and donors assist impoverished pastoralists by replenishing herds. The goal of restocking is to 'rehabilitate' destitute herders to leave settlements and return to a nomadic lifestyle.
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    How Africa's small farmers can get more value from less subsidised research and extension services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In many parts of Africa, shortcomings in agricultural research and extension (R&E) services have contributed to disappointing agricultural results. In turn, funding for R&E continues to decline. How can the best use of available funding be made?

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