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    Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

    World Bank, 2003
    This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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    Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003
    National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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    Cutting the risk? Male circumcision and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    HIV prevalence varies both within and between countries in Africa. How can these differences be explained? Within Africa, male circumcision appears to be more common in regions with relatively low HIV rates. Does circumcision reduce the risk of HIV infection?
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    Gender gaps and primary schooling: promising policy options for sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Belief that investment in girls’ and women’s education will result in broader development gains and poverty reduction has received widespread acceptance internationally. But what can be done to close the primary education gender gap between girls and boys? How can we achieve universal primary education by 2015?
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    Pro-poor tourism: putting poverty at the heart of mass tourism

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How does tourism affect the lives of the poor and what is the relevance of tourism to the poverty agenda? What are the impacts (positive and negative) and how can they be better understood? What factors encourage or constrain economic participation of the poor in the tourist industry? Can tourism be pro- poor?
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    Catalyst for local democracy? Land reform in Eastern and Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    From Eritrea to South Africa land tenure laws are in a state of flux. In every nation in eastern and southern Africa, apart from those wracked by conflict, tenure reform is either under discussion or coming on stream. What is driving this change? What are the consequences for landholders, for democratization and the nature of state power? Who are the potential winners and losers?
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    Subsidy or self-respect? Lessons from Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In large parts of Bangladesh, people in both rural and urban areas practice open defecation. Despite 30 years of efforts by international agencies and non-governmental organisations to improve environmental sanitation, it is hard to find even 100 villages out of nearly 85 000 that are completely sanitised.
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    Decentralisation revisited: behind the rhetoric of local natural resources management

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What exactly do researchers and policymakers mean by ‘decentralisation’? Although the concept has become central to sustainable development, it has been open to a variety of interpretations. Whilst decentralisation reforms have proceeded in Africa, do the assumptions which underlie these reforms stand up to scrutiny?
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    African distance learning: reaching parts other education systems cannot reach?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can non-formal radio and correspondence courses provide basic education to Africans bypassed by the school system? What are the key constraints, problems and success factors in the field of distance education in Africa? Could greater commitment of resources to distance education plug discriminatory gaps in African formal education systems?
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    The Primacy of Land Conflicts

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Peri-urban areas in Southern and East Africa are characterised by: rapid change and spiraling socio-economic polarisation; divergent claims, competing interests and identities; and conflicts, disputes and tensions concerning the access, control and use of land resources.

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