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    ‘One step forward – two steps backward?’ A critical look at Namibia’s current electricity distribution reform

    Institute of Public Policy Research, Namibia, 2007
    How can Namibia’s electricity sector be restructured? This paper examines the current debates on the electricity distribution sector in Namibia and finds that they tend to focus on winners and losers of reform, rather than on the long term efficiency gains. Reform is essential for increasing efficiency in the long-run, despite the considerable costs short term cost.
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    Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.
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    Effective professional development for teachers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Continuing - or in-service - professional development (CPD) for teachers is widely considered a critical condition for improved instructional quality and student learning outcomes.
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    Time to articulate the right to water?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Target ten of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people without sustainable and safe access to water. Although attempts have been made to link the MDGs and human rights, promoting a right to water achieves little if institutions, norms and values remain unchanged.
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    Burdened by care: home life with HIV and AIDS in Namibia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Caring for someone with HIV and AIDS can impose a great strain on household resources.  The impact on a household of protracted illness may be greater than that of the actual death of the ill person. How does the duty of daily, long-term care affect the physical and psychological well-being of patients and carers?
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    Responding to the human resource crisis in Namibia’s health service

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    In 2000, Namibia committed itself to the ambitious Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal and child mortality and disease by 2015.  However, without appropriate human resources, achieving the MDGs will be impossible.
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    EMIS capacity and priority identification: a web-based country survey for Ministry of Education personnel in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2007
    This report presents the results of a survey to gauge the capacity levels of Anglophone African Education Ministries’ statistics offices. It presents information provided by statisticians, planners and computer specialists from the Ministries on:
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    Innovation for land rights in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Many people in Africa do not have the security of formal titles to land. Policymakers can learn from the various approaches that different countries have taken to improve land tenure security.
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    Speaking freely, being strong

    Panos AIDS Programme, 2006
    This report from Panos outlines the findings from research done on the role of communications in social mobilisation around HIV, in South Africa, Namibia and Brazil. Based on oral testimony from members of actions groups campaigning on HIV issues, it highlights the importance of communication at a personal, interpersonal and public policy level for such groups.
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    Research ICT Africa Network

    The Research ICT Africa Network conducts research on ICT policy and regulation that facilitates evidence-based and informed policy making for improved access, use and application of ICT for social dev

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