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    What drives quality of schools in africa?: disentangling social capital and ethnic divisions

    Afrobarometer, 2014
    Because of limited governmental resources in Africa, communities are often left in charge of managing their own schools. Therefore, to improve school quality, one must understand the ability of African communities to engage in collective action.
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    A vote of confidence: retrospective voting in Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2014
    The literature on African voting motivations has largely emphasised factors such as ethnic similarity, patron-client loyalty and urban dwellers’ affinity for change. However, the current paper claims that retrospective voting has been either overlooked or misunderstood, and argues that it is a powerful explanation for recurring incumbent support.  
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    Popular attitudes toward democracy in Mauritius

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    Expert assessments of democracy have always rated Mauritius as a paragon of democracy on the African continent. This briefing paper uses the results of an Afrobarometer survey to find out whether ordinary Mauritians agree with this assessment or not. The paper also demonstrates the opinions of people in other African countries regarding their national democracies. 
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    Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010
    Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing in lower- and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the health and well-being of these ageing populations is important for policy and planning; however, research on ageing and adult health that informs policy predominantly comes from higher-income countries.
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    Tackling Africa's chronic disease burden: from the local to the global

    Globalization and Health, 2010
    Africa faces a double burden of infectious and chronic diseases. While infectious diseases still account for at least 69% of deaths in the continent, age specific mortality rates from chronic diseases as a whole are actually higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in virtually all regions of the world, in both men and women.
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    Africa Adaptation Programme knowledge management needs survey report 2012

    2012
    This report is a broad assessment of the knowledge needs of the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) countries. It hopes to help these countries capture, share and capitalise on the wealth of climate- and development-related knowledge available, thus enabling them to pursue data driven agendas and resilience-boosting strategies.
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    The climate investment funds: in action

    African Development Bank, 2012
    The Climate Investment Fund (CIF) provides developing countries with concessional loans, equity, grants and risk mitigation instruments to leverage financing from multilateral banks, the private sector and other sectors. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is one of the five implementing agencies for the CIF concessional funds to Africa; this report is AfDB’s first semi-annual report on the CIF.
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    Democratisation and the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012
    FAC Working Paper 43by Colin Poulton
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    Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
    Since the beginning of international climate change negotiations, civil society has worked alongside governments in shaping global agreements and keeping an eye on the implementation (and sometimes the lack of implementation) of these agreements. This report is the first joint product of the Southern Voices capacity building programme.
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    Getting research into policy and practice

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
    The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.

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