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    Ugandan NGOs act as sub-contractors for international development agencies

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    International donors have increasingly channelled their aid directly through local non-government organisations (NGOs) rather than governments. In Uganda, is this encouraging the emergence of a domestic charitable sector or are donors simply using local NGOs as sub-contractors for their development activities?
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    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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    The decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2007
    Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.
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    Uganda’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: principles and practice

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund began promoting the Poverty Reduction Strategy approach six years ago. Their 2005 review supported the approach but highlighted the need for a renewed focus on its principles. Uganda’s experience offers useful lessons to other countries implementing poverty reduction strategy papers.
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    Aid and conflict in Uganda

    Saferworld, 2007
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    A trickle or a flood: commitments and disbursement for HIV/AIDS from the Global Fund, PEPFAR, and the World Bank’s Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP)

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    This paper from the Center for Global Development examines the amount of money provided for HIV programmes by the three main global funders since 2004. These three are the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the World Banks’ Multi-Country AIDS Programme (MAP).
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    The 'refugee aid and development' approach in Uganda: empowerment and self-reliance of refugees in practice

    United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2006
    This paper takes a critical look at the United Nations High Commission for Refugee’s (UNHCR) 'refugee, aid and development' (RAD) approach in Uganda. The paper examines the disconnect between refugees’ experiences and perceptions of this programme and the 'official' discourse surrounding the self-reliance strategy (SRS).
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    Lessons for governance reform from Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Uganda is one of Africa’s success stories, having achieved economic growth, a reduction in poverty and political stability following years of civil war. Much of this success was accompanied by a range of reforms to state institutions. What can be learnt from the Ugandan experience for other developing countries hoping for successful governance reform?
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    UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2007

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
    This Humanitarian Action Report 2007 outlines UNICEF’s appeal for children and women in 33 emergencies around the world.
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    Should donors give aid to developing country budgets?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    As donors seek to improve the effectiveness of aid, they have turned to delivering aid directly to developing country budgets. General budget support funds are used by recipient governments according to their own priorities. It is too early to tell, however, if this is more effective in reducing poverty than project or sectoral funding.

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