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    Family planning programmes for the next century

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Family planning programmes arose as a new form of state intervention in the 1960s. In many countries, particularly in Asia, the rationale was an explicit demographic one of reducing fertility and bringing down rates of population growth. Since 1960, fertility in developing countries has fallen from an average of 6.5 births per women to 3.3 births.
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    Net cost - affording bednets in rural highland Kenya

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can the poor afford insecticide treated bednets to protect them at night from insects carrying malaria? The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, Nairobi, together with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, carried out research in rural Kenya to find out if families would be willing and able to pay for the insecticide treated bednets.
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    Globalisation and manufacturing employment: contrasting impacts in Asia and Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A crucial way in which increased integration with the global economy can potentially reduce poverty is through the creation of new jobs in export industries. However, greater openness also brings increased competition from imports for previously protected industries. This can lead to job losses in certain sectors, with workers falling into poverty as a result of retrenchment.
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    Winning arguments? NGO advocacy under the microscope

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As more and more NGOs focus on policy advocacy, are they actually winning people over to their cause – or do structural and political constraints prevent their voices being heard? Can NGOs get involved with governments without compromising their independence? Do donors facilitate or hinder the work of pressure-group NGOs? How should advocacy impact be assessed?
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    Behaving badly? Young men and sexual health

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can young men change their attitudes to sex and sexual health? What methods can be used to challenge their views? Researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and Southampton University considered ways of improving the sexual health of young men in developing countries.
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    Unwelcome surprise – preventing unplanned births in Kenya

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Kenya is going through a ‘demographic transition’. Contraceptive use rose from 33 per cent of married women in 1993 to 39 per cent in 1998 - one of the highest rates in sub-Saharan Africa. But a large proportion of births are still unplanned. A study by the UK University of Southampton looks at the factors that increase the chance of unplanned pregnancy.
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    All in the mix: combining malaria drugs to beat resistance in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Malaria control in Africa depends on the availability of effective, safe and cheap drugs. Rapid spread of drug resistance is a major problem.
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    Community-based wildlife conservation in East Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Large-scale protectionist programmes have increasingly been abandoned in favour of community-based wildlife conservation. But the huge range of initiatives makes it difficult to assess the value and impact of these. A new review of community conservation efforts in East Africa finds that much remains to be done, particularly at policy, legal and institutional levels.
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    Tracking changes in access to water in East Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Has access to sufficient good quality water improved or worsened over time? Snapshot studies offer information on current changes, but little is known about how access has changed over a longer period.
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    Getting the message through: information pathways for Kenyan agriculture

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is the significance of different actors and organisations as potential uptake or dissemination pathways for agricultural technologies?

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