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    Skills development in the informal sector of sub‐Saharan Africa

    World Bank, 2008
    This study examines the role played by education and skills development in achieving this objective.
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    When does the state listen?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016
    In this article, we look at four cases of key historical policies in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania to examine how states engage with citizen voices. The policies all took place in contexts of political change and major junctures of democratisation.
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    Effectiveness of community-led security mechanisms in urban Eastern Africa: a research agenda

    Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies, 2015
    In many African states, even in those states not afflicted by conflicts from the beginning, in reality, the state never managed to impose a monopoly on security. Moreover, in many cases the African states never developed ‘public’ security systems to protect all citizens without discrimination. The public police remained largely in the service of the elite in power.
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    China–Africa co-operation: capacity building and social responsibility of investments

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Over the past decade, African economies have enjoyed a sustained period of growth, and this has made the continent an attractive destination for international investors. This paper reviews the contours of Chinese investment and aid programmes on the African continent, focusing on the issues of capacity building and social responsibility of investments.
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    China and India, “rising powers” and African development : challenges and opportunities

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014
    In this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope.
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    REDD Integrity: An evidence based approach to anti-corruption in REDD+

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    Schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) have emerged as a means to address deforestation trends in developing countries and related emissions of forest carbon. Governance and corruption challenges facing REDD+ are widely acknowledged to be daunting both in their scale and severity.
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    Norway’s municipal international cooperation - results achieved and lessons learnt

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2015
    Municipal International Cooperation (1997-2014) was a programme involving municipalities in Norway and the Global South. It was managed by the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This report sums up results and identifies lessons to be learnt for a possible future scheme.
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    A synthesis of institutional arrangements of National AIDS Commissions in seven African countries: work in progress

    HLSP Institute, UK, 2007
    This paper presents a synthesis of institutional arrangements and issues currently facing National AIDS Councils/Commissions (NACs) in 2007. It reviews the governance and institutional arrangements of African NACs as well as harmonisation and alignement processes. For each topic there is an analysis of emerging themes.
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    Helpdesk Report: Evidence base for local block grants in Education

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    This Helpdesk query was asked to provide a literature / evidence review of the effectiveness – or otherwise – of sub-national flexible block grants in education in delivering enrolment, attendance and quality objectives.
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    Helpdesk Report: Higher education reform

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    The report covers seven countries - for each country there is a profile outlining how higher education is organised and drawing together the key points on reform. This is followed in each case by an annotated bibliography of resources on higher education reform. Countries covered:

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