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    No hiding place for information-hoarders: tackling the accountability deficit

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can citizens help shape policies and hold politicians and civil servants to account? How can opportunities for citizen participation be institutionalised? Which public sector responsiveness initiatives undertaken in recent years are replicable? How should donors respond to recalcitrant states refusing to reform accountability relationships with service users?
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    Making a difference? Getting serious about gender and participatory development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The rhetoric of participation and gender awareness has entered the development mainstream. Has this led to more equitable development initiatives? What are the consequences of the frequently found slippage between ‘involving women’ and ‘addressing gender’? And how can those using participatory approaches address issues of gender difference more effectively?
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    Counting the cost of HIV in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Southern Africa is the region with the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. An estimated 9.4 million of the total population of 97 million were HIV-positive in 1999. What impact will the HIV/AIDS epidemic have on the provision of health services in the region? Is there any scope for improving access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in low-income countries?
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    Banking reforms in Africa. What has been learnt?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    One of the major objectives of liberalisation is to boost bank lending to the private sector, which is regarded as the engine of economic growth. However, the growth of commercial bank lending to the private sector following financial liberalisation was disappointing in many countries, especially bank lending to small scale borrowers and start-up enterprises.
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    Bigger AND better? Expanding community action on HIV/AIDS

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Slowing the spread of HIV and coping with the consequences of AIDS are major challenges for many developing countries. There are now many examples of successful small-scale responses to the disease. Could these strategies work for a larger population? How can non- governmental or community-based organisations (NGOs/CBOs) broaden the impact of their programmes?
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    Cleaner banking: is it possible?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    When unsound southern banks go bust the impact can be devastating. The costs are usually borne by depositors and taxpayers - rarely by those who own and manage errant banks. How can more prudential monitoring and earlier intervention improve bank regulation? Would US-style regulatory mechanisms work in the south?
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    Why should governments serve the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is government responsible for ensuring public health? Is it necessary for public entities to deliver this public good? Who else might serve the unprofitable urban poor?
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    Sector wide coordination of aid: are SIPs shaping up?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can donors work together to increase the chances of aid achieving poverty reduction? The World Bank and Nordic agencies have enthusiastically promoted Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAPs) to coordinate development assistance. Can SWAPs improve the chances of reaching the ambitious International Development Goals target of halving poverty by 2015?
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    Are governments out of the woods? Returning Africa’s woodlands to communities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    African governments have traditionally assumed that the main agents from which forest and woodlands need protection are the local inhabitants. As new constitutions and land laws recognising customary tenure come on stream, radical change is in the air. What progress has actually been made in implementing community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and joint forest management (JFM)?
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    Expanding DOTS in the context of a changing health system

    World Health Organization, 2003
    In conjunction with mounting responses to the various public health priorities, many countries are striving to strengthen their health systems to make them more equitable, effective, efficient, responsive, and sustainable.

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