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    Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In 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?
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    Can a workshop change stigma?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Irrational 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.
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    East Africa Policy Forum: health management information systems

    DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2006
    This 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.
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    How can universities challenge gender discrimination?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In developing country universities women staff are under-represented in senior teaching and management positions. Enrolment of female undergraduates is increasing but far too few are studying science and technology subjects. Research and action are needed to identify the factors that slow or promote gender equity and identify examples of replicable good practice.
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    A new agenda to eradicate poverty in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Over 75 million more Africans lived in poverty at the end of the 1990s than a decade earlier. Increasing aid and reforming trade through international campaigns and donor programmes is not working. The role of the state must be changed if poverty in Africa is to be reduced.
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    A comparative analysis of decentralisation in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

    DEGE Consult, Tanzania, 2004
    This report reviews and assesses the key lessons of the decentralisation reforms in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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    Liberalised cotton markets in Africa: what could bring success?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Cotton is an important crop for many sub-Saharan African countries. In west Africa the cotton sectors were, until recently, managed as state monopolies, while in southern and eastern Africa they were liberalised around a decade ago. Finding a balance between competition and coordination is central to the success of cotton liberalisation.
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    Global and EU agricultural trade reform: what is in it for Tanzania, Uganda and Sub-Saharan Africa?

    Trinity College, Dublin, 2005
    This discussion paper focuses on the effects of total agricultural trade liberalisation (TAL) in Uganda and Tanzania using the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model (ATPSM) which estimates the effects of total agricultural liberalisation (TAL) on:prices and terms of trade on changes in supplydemand and trade flowson welfare effects for producers and consumers.Estim
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    Evolving environmental management: from conservation to poverty reduction

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Poverty reduction and environmental management are increasingly seen as closely related. However, public sector environmental management institutions often focus more on conservation than poverty reduction. Can these institutions be reformed to reduce poverty as well as sustain the environment?
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    High transport costs affect trade in east Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Since the 1980s, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have significantly reduced tariffs and trade policy restrictions on imports. As a result, effective protection on imports declined to 15 percent on average (by sector) by the early 2000s. Although they liberalised trade, exports did not increase to the extent hoped for.

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