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    The politics of water: a Southern African example

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This report examines the political contradictions embedded in water reform processes across different levels in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. It argues that implementing ideas on water reform often borrowed from extremely different contexts is not an automatic and unproblematic process, but involves complex local political negotiation.
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    Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 
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    The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

    Oxfam, 1999
    Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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    Study on private sector development in Mozambique

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002
    Review of the private sector in Mozambique and the priorities for donor intervention. The report reviews that there is a “big project bias” in Mozambique, therefore it is realistic to suggest that the potential for Norwegian investments in Mozambique would be participation by the bigger Norwegian companies in the large-scale projects within the energy and minerals sector.
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    The ‘new’ communities: land tenure reform and the advent of new institutions in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

    Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
    Recently, new community-level institutions have emerged in Zambézia province, Mozambique, through land rights registration. Numerous rural groups have delimited their acquired land rights and established community-level management systems.
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    Decentralisations in practice in Southern Africa

    Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
    Different forms of decentralisation are occurring in parallel, and often in ways that cause confusion, ambiguity, high transaction costs and conflict, in southern Africa.These case studies in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how: political authorities with downward accountability to electorates co-exist and sometimes conflict with decentralised service delivery (through line m
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    Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

    Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
    This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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    Creating a virtuous circle: reform in post-conflict Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do economists know enough about the mechanics of institution-building in post-conflict states in Africa? Do they take an over- optimistic view of institutional change? In the aftermath of war, is it best to start all over again and import ready-to-go legal systems? Is enough being done to restore protection of property and contract rights?
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    Public-private partnerships in agricultural extension: challenges for Mozambique

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can the state go it alone in assisting farmers to respond to the challenges of poverty, food insecurity and globalisation? Can the private sector help farmers innovate and respond to new market forces? What challenges confront civil servants as they learn to work with private sector organisations?
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    Community based natural resources management in Mozambique: a theoretical or practical strategy for local sustainable development?: the case study of Derre Forest Reserve

    IUCN, Mozambique, 2003
    What does community based natural resource management (CBNRM) mean for Mozambique's poor?Through the case study of Derre Forest Reserve in Zambezia province, this paper explores the theory and practice of CBNRM, an approach which has been widely promoted in southern Africa, and is central to elements of the Mozambican forestry and wildlife policy of 1999.The paper examines the history of com

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