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    Facilitating learning in agricultural extension work: lessons from western Kenya

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Declining soil fertility is a major problem in the highlands of western Kenya. How can farmers improve their soil fertility management strategies? Can participatory techniques aid this process?
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    Spoils of soil? Unravelling an African soil management initiative

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Have environmental pessimists exaggerated Africa’s soil fertility problems? How do networks of environmental scientists, bureaucrats and politicians coalesce and dissolve? What can analysis of a much-hyped multi-lateral initiative to combat soil degradation in Africa tell us about the post- Rio approach to international environmental governance?
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    How are African hospitals coping with the rising burden of HIV?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How is the HIV/AIDS epidemic affecting healthcare systems in developing countries? Can existing services cope? Two-thirds of people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa. Research by the UK Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has examined the effect of high HIV prevalence on healthcare services in Kenya and South Africa.
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    What's the diagnosis? Testing for tuberculosis in Kenya

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How accurate are diagnostic procedures for tuberculosis (TB)? A study by The Netherlands' Royal Tropical Institute and the Kenya Medical Research Institute compares the results of laboratory tests with routine diagnostic procedure in a Kenyan chest clinic. The study identified the main weaknesses in the procedure and proposed improvements.
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    Women’s needs for household security and conservation: impossible to reconcile?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) are supposed to combine rural development with the conservation of natural resources. Do they work? How does gender shape the ways local people participate in, and benefit from, ICDPs? Are they implemented with regard to social equity issues? How can women’s role in their planning, management and evaluation be enhanced?
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    Getting rights right: Is access to justice as important as access to health or education?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A core government function is to provide an effective system of justice for its citizens. Yet many governments fail to deliver on the basic services of protecting physical safety, securing personal property and settling disputes quickly and fairly. Recent studies have highlighted the fact that for poor people, access to justice may be as important as access to healthcare or education.
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    Insights Health Editorial: Delivering the goods - HIV treatment for the poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    HIV has spread like wildfire, causing untold suffering and death and creating profound development challenges. Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) are standard treatment for HIV in wealthy countries and should be included in a package of care for all infected people.
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    The economics of gender inequality: towards gender responsive budgeting

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Are budgets and revenue systems as gender neutral as they may appear to be? Can gender be incorporated into economic governance? How can women and civil society organisations be more involved in preparing budgets, scrutinising expenditure and collecting and analysing macroeconomic data that is disaggregated by sex?
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    The economics of gender inequality: towards gender responsive budgeting

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Are budgets and revenue systems as gender neutral as they may appear to be? Can gender be incorporated into economic governance? How can women and civil society organisations be more involved in preparing budgets, scrutinising expenditure and collecting and analysing macroeconomic data that is disaggregated by sex?
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    Parks beyond Parks: Genuine community-based wildlife eco-tourism or just another loss of land for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya?

    Drylands Programme, IIED, 2002
    This paper provides an analysis of the Kenyan ‘Parks beyond parks’ programme which attempts to introduce a community based social component to their parks management policies by allowing locals to establish eco-tourism projects adjacent to parks.

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