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    Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address gender? A gender audit of 2002 PRSPs

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
    Can progress be seen on gender in the 13 Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) produced in 2002? Yes - but there is a long way to go before gender issues are thoroughly integrated. Encouragingly, the PRSPs from Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia 'almost' mainstream gender. The majority, however, confine consideration of gender issues to, typically, maternal health and girls' education.
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    The body [chapter in ‘Voices of the poor: crying out for change’]

    World Bank, 2000
    While it is recognised that poverty and poor health are closely linked, it is rare that the poor have the opportunity to voice their own experiences with respect to health issues. Poor people from across the world described their own health experiences in the World Bank's 'Voices of the Poor', a multi-country study of poor people's experiences of poverty.
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    Understanding HIV-related stigma and resulting discrimination in Sub-Saharan Africa: emerging themes from early data collection in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2002
    Describes research that is underway in three African countries and Vietnam to investigate the causes, manifestations, and consequences of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and subsequent discriminatory acts. The basis for analysis is the community and its institutions (health facilities, the workplace, schools, and religious group)s.
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    World Data on Education [country profiles]

    International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 1998
    Country level educational sector profiles (144 in June 2000). Overview describing structure of sector and nationals policies Includes statistcal indicators. Available on WWW and on (free) CDROM.
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    Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
    Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.
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    Voices of the poor

    PovertyNet, World Bank, 1999
    Also known as Consultations With The Poor, the report looks at poor people's definition of what comprises a good life, and the role of poverty.

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