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  Designing and operating a site-tailored HIV/AIDS programme to succeed in a decentralized company

  World Economic Forum, 2002

  This document describes the HIV programme created by Anglovaal Mining Limited (Avmin), a South Africa-based mining company, in order to address the high level of HIV prevalence among its employees.Key facts and characteristics of the programme include:in 2002 HIV prevalence among Avmin's employees was 14%Avmin's future HIV related expenses associated with this level of HIV prevalenc
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  Managing markets: Using subsidies to regulate in favour of the poor

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The World Bank and donor agencies have promoted the privatisation of basic services as a strategy to increase investment and secure improved and extended services. However, in the case of water, investments are still deficient and many of the poor do not have piped supplies in easy reach.
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  Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 
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  The crisis of land distribution in Southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Those who led southern African states to independence promised to redress the inequalities of settler colonialism by returning the land to the people. A generation later the rural poor are still waiting. Many lack access and full rights to agricultural land and, as developments in Zimbabwe and South Africa show, they are getting angry. Where did post-independence land reform policy go wrong?
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  Decentralisation and poverty reduction: the reality in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Although decentralisation is often heralded as a means to promote democracy and poverty reduction, there is little reliable evidence to prove these claims. In fact, ruling parties and ethnic elites in Africa have used decentralisation to further strengthen their own power and influence at a local level. New research argues that on its own, decentralization will not reduce poverty.
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  Does primary teacher education pass muster?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The Multi-Site Teacher Education Research Project (MUSTER) was a large scale collaborative project aimed at generating new understandings of teacher education before, during and after the point of initial qualification. What globally relevant priorities for teacher education and for the goal of Education for All (EFA) have emerged from MUSTER’s national case studies?
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  Diverting the flow: a resource guide to gender, rights and water privatization

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003

  This resource guide examines the impact that the privatisation of goods and services such as water has on the livelihoods of women, particularly poor women.Section one presents extracts from a variety of sources that highlight the critical issues related to water privatisation and women, including: water as a human right public versus private goods gender roles and inequities
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  Gendering AIDS: women, men, empowerment, mobilisation

  Voluntary Service Overseas, 2003

  This report examines how national and international policy implementation of HIV/AIDS can be strengthened.
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  Gendering AIDS: women, men, empowerment, mobilisation

  Voluntary Service Overseas, 2003

  To reverse the spread and minimise the impact of HIV/AIDS, inequalities between men and women must be reduced. This is not happening yet, partly because policies designed to uphold women's rights are not being implemented effectively.
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  Decentralisation: Toward Gender Orientation

  2001

  How can a gender perspective and women's interests be included in decentralisation processes through technical advisory services? This publication from GTZ outlines the various entry points through which donors can assist in ensuring that women and men participate equally in the process and its outcomes. The publication is divided into national and local level actions.

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