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    The CDM project potential in sub-Saharan Africa

    Wuppertal Institute, 2011
    This report assesses opportunities and challenges for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in sub-Saharan African countries, namely Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
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    Taxation, resource mobilisation and state performance

    Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2010
    The process of tax collection is one of the most powerful lenses in political economy to assess the distribution of power in a polity. Indeed, there is a long history of thinking in political economy and history that links the process of state-building with the capacity of rulers to collect taxes.
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    UNIDO and renewable energy: greening the industrial agenda

    United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2010
    Renewable energy has become a viable option for enhancing access to energy at most places through on/off grid electrification, both in urban and rural areas, and promoting productive uses and industrial applications in energy intensive industrial sectors, especially in SMEs. Industry needs reliable and affordable energy to become productive and competitive.
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    Low-carbon energy projects for development in Sub-Saharan Africa Unveiling the potential, addressing the barriers

    World Bank, 2008
    Sub-Saharan Africa has an opportunity of choosing a cleaner development pathway via low-carbon energy alternatives that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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    The Global Fund: managing great expectations

    The Lancet, 2004
    This paper published in the Lancet, tracks early implementation experiences of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four African countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Interim findings are based on interviews with 137 national-level respondents. The paper finds that: 
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    What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment has failed because the policies have sidestepped the developmental needs of Africa.
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    Community self-mobilisation to end open defecation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).
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    National plans of action for orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa: where are the youngest children?

    Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2008
    Although it is recognised that the focus of support must be on all children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, including those living with sick parents or in extreme poverty, the youngest are often invisible to programme planners, despite their vulnerability.
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    Civil society engagement in education budgets: a report documenting Commonwealth Education Fund experience

    Commonwealth Education Fund, 2008
    This report documents Commonwealth Education Fund experience, illustrating how civil society can engage in the budget process through budget analysis; tracking disbursement flows through the education system; monitoring expenditure; and lobbying to influence budget allocations to the education sector.
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    Can parliaments enhance the quality of democracy on the African continent? An analysis of institutional capacity and public perception

    Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006
    Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party elections and democratic practices, legislative strengthening programmes have become an important part of international assistance. Parliaments are generally regarded as potential agents for democratic change but their actual role in enhancing the quality of democracy in Africa is far from clear.

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