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    Opportunity or threat: the engagement of youth in African societies

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2012
    The unemployment crisis in Africa is a critical challenge to a majority of youth. This situation demands a clear policy framework, accompanied by clear budgetary allocations. The chapters in this monograph examine the dynamics of the youth population on the basis of underlying relationships and social structures.
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    Family planning matters

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    One quarter of Kenyan women would like to stop childbearing or postpone giving birth, but are not using any contraceptive method. Currently, about 43 percent of pregnancies in Kenya are unintended. These statistics imply that women in Kenya continue to face barriers in meeting their fertility intentions.
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    Unintended pregnancy by the numbers: A look at Kenya

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    This fact sheet summarises data collated during the development of the STEP UP Country Profile Report on Unintended Pregnancies for Kenya, which presents a range of key evidence aimed at informing readers about the trends, magnitude, determinants and consequences of unintended pregnancy in Kenya.
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    Separate and suspicious: local social and political context and ethnic tolerance in Kenya

    Afrobarometer, 2011
    Does living in close proximity to members of other ethnic groups make Kenyan people more or less tolerant of ethnic differences? The current paper examines this questions by combining survey data with new measures of local ethnic composition and political competition in Kenya.
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    Towards effective violence mitigation: transforming political settlements

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    How should ‘new’ forms of violence in the developing world – as opposed to ‘traditional’ civil or intra-state war –be understood; and through which policies could they be prevented and/or mitigated?
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    Too poor to care?: the salience of aids in Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2011
    Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the world that is most severely affected by HIV/AIDS, yet surveys of attitudes to AIDS across African countries show that most people do not attach great importance to the issue. The current paper argues that the salience of AIDS is low in Africa because many people are too poor to consider the disease important.
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    Options for Climate-Smart Agriculture at Kaptumo Site in Kenya

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2014
    This report identifies and assesses climate-smart agricultural practices through participatory appraisal tools with experts and farmers, as part of FAO’s Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture the MICCA pilot project in Kaptumo, Kenya.
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    The political participation of Africa’s youth: turnout, partisanship and protest

    Afrobarometer, 2011
    The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilisation in Africa, but very little is known about the political participation of Africa’s youth. The current paper focuses on different modes of political participation among the youth living in Africa’s more democratic regimes.
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    Exploiting the poor: bureaucratic corruption and poverty in Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2012
    Corruption is a major source of slow development in Africa. The current paper develops a model of the relationship between poverty and corruption, and utilises Afrobarometer survey data on 18 sub-Saharan African countries.
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    Can donors and non-state actors undermine citizens’ legitimating beliefs?

    Afrobarometer, 2012
    This paper analysis associations between donor and non-state actor service provision and the sense of obligation to comply with tax authorities, the police and courts in Africa, using Afrobarometer survey data.

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