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  Abolishing poverty through the international human rights framework: towards an integrated strategy for the social and human sciences

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2003

  This is a consultation report on the draft document produced by the UNESCO. It highlights the main points of the draft document and makes practical suggestions and recommendations to UNESCO on specific areas of the document.
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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p
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  Study on private sector development in Malawi

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2002

  Review of the private sector in Malawi and the priorities for donor intervention.
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  Sustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.
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  Is land a human rights issue? approaching land reform in South Africa

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  This essay briefly explores South African post-apartheid land reform as a human rights issue. It suggests that land reform has an ethically, politically and strategically important interface with international human rights.
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  Governance for sustainability?: balancing social and environmental concerns in Harare

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2002

  The paper examines urban governance in the framework of sustainable urban development, and agrees with most analyses that sustainable settlements embrace social, ecological and economic dimensions.

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