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    The Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

    World Bank, 2006
    The costs of programmes to promote gender equality and women's empowerment are not systematically calculated and integrated into country-level budgeting processes, according to the authors of this paper.
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    Assessing household food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Reducing hunger in developing countries depends on reliable estimates of food insecurity. Using data about how much food individual households acquire may be a more accurate way to measure dietary quantity and quality than national level data.
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    Economic and political foundations of state-making in Africa: understanding state reconstruction

    Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2006
    This paper examines the processes of state reconstruction in Uganda and Rwanda, and the challenge posed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in light of the experience of the stable state in Tanzania.
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    How does HIV/AIDS affect pastoralist communities?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    There is little knowledge about the specific interactions between HIV/AIDS and pastoralist people. This is despite the fact that pastoralists are among the poorest people in some of the world’s most seriously HIV/AIDS-affected countries.
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    In the best interests of the child: harmonising laws in Eastern and Southern Africa

    African Child Policy Forum, 2007
    This report reviews and analyses how far 19 Eastern and Southern African countries have gone in harmonising and implementing the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC, or 'the African Charter').
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    Supporting HIV-positive teachers in east and southern Africa: technical consultation report, 30 November - 1 December 2006, Nairobi, Kenya

    Education Sector, UNESCO, 2008
    East and southern Africa are the two regions in the world which are the most highly affected by HIV and AIDS. A significant number of people with HIV are educators, ranging from primary school teachers to head teachers and university lecturers.
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    East African integration: how can it contribute to East African development?

    Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda, 2007
    Since the formal launching of the new East African Community (EAC) in 2001, the pace of integration has been quickening. The process for a free trade area and customs union between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania began in January 2005, and negotiations to establish a common market between these three countries with the addition of Rwanda and Burundi, have also been initiated.
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    Community wealth-ranking and household surveys: an integrative approach

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2007
    This paper focuses on the use of information from wealth ranking exercises in conjunction with data collected from household surveys. An analytical framework was examined by using data collected from rural areas of four eastern Africa countries. It is argued that the relative visibility of resources helps explain the weights given to different types of resources in wealth ranking exercises.
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    Libraries in Africa: a key to poverty reduction and literacy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Illiterate people are disadvantaged and disempowered in today’s global information society. They are unable to fulfil their potential and take part fully in society. Libraries are vital to sustain literacy, yet most poor communities in Africa lack access to them, while those that do exist tend to be poorly resourced.
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    More aid for Africa is only a mixed blessing

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The donor community has pledged to double aid to Africa by 2010. This presents Africa with great opportunities. But it can also make life harder for exporters and the private sector. Their production costs will have to be lowered but can aid help achieve that?

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