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    Can the Poor Influence Policy? Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World

    World Bank, 1999
    Full-text of report available to download as PDF files.This new report, which revolutionizes the way the World Bank gains an understanding of poverty, offers a fresh approach that gives the poor a voice that has been absent for far too long. How can the poor, so removed from the powerful, influence national policy?
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    Acting early to prevent AIDS: the case of Senegal

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    Describes the experience of Senegal, which has worked hard to prevent HIV spreading, and that has maintained one of the lowest rates of infection in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the situation in Senegal before AIDS began its rapid spread across much of Africa.
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    Group behaviour and development

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999
    A very large amount of activity occurs within groups (that is within families, firms, co-operatives, communities or governments). Yet most economic analysis focuses on market transactions between these agents.
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    The Socio-Economic Dynamics of Farmers' Management of Local Plant Genetic Resources: A Framework for Analysis with Examples from a Tanzanian Case

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
    Discusses the debate around farmers' management of local plant genetic resources. It seek to develop a theoretical framework for analysing farmers management of plant genetic resources using examples from fieldwork carried out in 1995-1997 among farmers in Tanzania with a focus on the 1994/95 growing season.
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    Land management programme in Tanzania

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci
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    Budgets as if people mattered: democratizing macroeconomic policies

    Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
    The concept of 'budgets as if people mattered' is inspired by a large number of initiatives that have emerged around the world during the last fifteen years to examine public budgets through a poverty or gender lens.
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    Developing Small Dams and Social Capital in Yemen: Local Responses to External Assistance

    International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2000
    This paper examines six cases of small dam development along small seasonal rivers (wadi) in the rugged mountainous province of Al-Mahweet in north central Yemen.Development of small dams is a current priority of the Government of Yemen and various foreign donors.
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    Poverty reduction strategies: a part for the poor?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    The paper highlights the lessons learnt from previous participatory policy projects that the author considers need to be heeded if the PSRP approach is to live up to its ambitious rhetoric.
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    The World Bank and IMF initiate a new reform package

    Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2000
    The article critically examines the World Bank's and IMF's new approach to poverty alleviation and debt relief, as it is to be carried out via the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).
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    Kenya: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy 2000 - 2003

    Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2000
    The strategy states that the primary development goal for Kenya is to achieve a broad-based, sustainable improvement in the standards of welfare of all Kenyans. The paper stresses the role not only of Government but of the the private sector, non-governmental and community based organisations in meeting the challenge of poverty reduction.

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