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  South Walo 1:100,000: topographic and administrative map of South Walo zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia

  Ethiopia Research Programme, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  This paper presents a combination of topographic and administrative maps to create a more comprehensive representation of South Walo, Ethiopia.These maps have the benefit of being easy to use for the non-expert and include the detailed information required to assess their quality, link them to other maps, and trace differences observed in the field.
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  Integrated plant nutrition management in Mali: summary report 1998-2004

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005

  This document reports on a project implemented in Macina and Koro/Bankass in Mali which aimed to improve food security by building the competence of farmers and NGOs in soil fertility management. The project focused on four different technologies: microdosing of fertiliser, composting, zai method for water harvesting and urea treatment of straw.
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  Maximising the benefits from water and environmental sanitation: cooperation with private sector to improve results: a pilot water project in Uganda

  Yme, 2005

  While the UN-Water Decade and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) define the focus of both governments and nongovernmental organisations to improve the situation of many communities, new concepts and models for partnership have to be found to make a real impact within a short allocated time.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and strategies for coping with less labour

  Development Fund, Norway, 2005

  This briefing note, based on studies done by UNAIDS and the UN Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO), looks at how HIV and AIDS impacts on agriculture, and contains recommendations for how to cope with the epidemic.The note states that increasingly, HIV and AIDS is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies throughout the affected countries.
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  China in the international politics of climate change: a foreign policy analysis

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2005

  Expected to become the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases within a few decades, China is key to the the success of global efforts to combat climate change.
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  Economic aid to post-conflict countries: a methodological critique of Collier and Hoeffler

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  This note reports on the direction of the World Bank's research into the countries emerging from civil war as conducted by Collier and Hoeffler.
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  Evaluation of the "strategy for women and gender equality in development cooperation (1997-2005)"

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  This report evaluates the implementation of the Strategy for Women and Gender Equality in Development Cooperation (the Strategy), and analyses how the development cooperation system, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Norad and the embassies in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Zambia have organised their Women and Gender Equality (W&GE) efforts, and how this system interacts with and collaborates with
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  Revenue administration and corruption: what works?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  This policy brief attempts to answer three interlinked questions regarding corruption within tax administration systems. It asks: How can corruption effectively be overcome in revenue administration in developing countries? What are the appropriate measures and effective responses?
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  Irrational numbers: why the FAO’S forest assessments are misleading

  Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2005

  This report argues that the Global Forest Resources Assessments (GFRA) of FAO is failing to do its job. The GFRA should be providing accurate information and credible data describing the state of forests in the world.
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  Governing climate: the struggle for a global framework beyond Kyoto

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2005

  How can we further develop international regimes to prevent climate change? This publications asks this question in the context of a post-Kyoto plan, considering that the importance of Kyoto over the long term is not its specific targets or number of parties to the agreement, but rather that it has set the stage for ongoing international discussions on the issue.

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