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  Tackling climate change and aid in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Climate change is already affecting many developing countries. In Africa, over 70 percent of workers rely on small-scale farming dependent on direct rainfall. Even small changes to weather patterns can threaten food security and health. These impacts present a huge challenge to the coordination of aid efforts and the design of development policies.
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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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  Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.
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  Indigenous and tribal peoples: an ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally benefit much less than others from overall declines in poverty.
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  Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learned from selected case studies

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2004

  This synthesis document brings together the findings of African forest scientists operating under the umbrella of the Forestry Research Network of Sub-Saharan Africa who compiled case studies of land rehabilitation from all major ecological regions in Western- Eastern and Southern Africa.
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  Fast-tracking East African integration: assessing the feasibility of a political federation by 2010

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  The long history of collaboration between the three East African states of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has been turbulent and has left both a positive and negative legacy. This legacy has a bearing on the contemporary dynamics of collaboration in several respects.
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  Beyond the mainstream: education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper illustrates the challenges involved in providing good-quality gender-equitable education for children of nomadic and pastoralist households who are beyond the reach of mainstream, formal education.Some of the key issues highlighted in the paper include the limited, and failed, provision of static schooling, or projects which have focused on getting nomadic boys and girls to adapt to
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  Male sexuality in the context of socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have missed the point by concentrating on women's empowerment and women's ability to negotiate safer sex. HIV/AIDS work must also consider to what extent disempowered men in East Africa are motivated to practice safer sex.
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  Foreign investment and economic development: evidence from private firms in East Africa

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This briefing paper takes the view that foreign direct investment (FDI) can play an important role in developing countries. At the macroeconomic level, it brings new capital for investment, contributing to the balance of payments, and potentially adding to future economic growth.

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