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id21 viewpoint - AUVEC: using the virtual world to achieve real world gains in livestock care
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006The importance of livestock to poor people is as obvious as the humps on a camel. However, the diseases that affect animals and their keepers do not get the attention they need.DocumentBirth intervals and injectable contraception in sub-Saharan Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Short intervals between births increase the risk of children dying during their first year and beyond. Use of contraception should help to increase birth intervals, but does it work? Research in nine African countries suggests that use of the injectable contraceptive, depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), actually increases the odds of short birth intervals.DocumentRegional dimensions of Norwegian country programme in East Africa
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006This study is an assessment of existing Norwegian aid country programmes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, on how they relate to East African regional ambitions, supplemented by information on other donors’ support for the East African Community (EAC) directly.Findings of the study include:mindful of the subsidiarity principle and acknowledging the need for policy coherence, the respectiveDocumentIs cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?Documentid21 classic: Redistribution with growth
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006'Redistribution with growth' explores ways in which macroeconomic growth can be combined over time with measures of redistribution to improve employment, reduce poverty and achieve more equitable income distribution.DocumentHitting malaria where it hurts: household and community responses in Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Each year at least 300 million cases of malaria result in more than a million deaths worldwide. Ninety percent of these deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa and most are children under five years old.DocumentCan a workshop change stigma?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Irrational fears and judgements, misinformation and traditional beliefs fuel stigma against people living with HIV and AIDS. Although policy change and advocacy are important for creating an environment free of stigma, individual behaviour change is equally important.DocumentEast Africa Policy Forum: health management information systems
DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2006This report, published by the DFID Health Resource Centre, covers the proceedings of an East Africa Policy Forum on health management information systems (HMIS). Participants included staff from East African ministries of health, non-government organisations, and academics.DocumentThe reality of water provision in urban Africa
International Policy Network, 2006This paper examines water and sanitation delivery in urban settings in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper draws on examples from several African countries including Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Ivory Coast, and Tanzania.