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  Re-constructing rights to land: from discourse to entitlement

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  The paper offers two models for looking at land reform as a human rights issues in Namaqualand, South Africa.
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  Knowing and doing? HIV awareness and sexual behaviour in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  An HIV prevention programme was introduced in a South African mining community in order to investigate changes in sexual behaviour and the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections. Although there was evidence of increased knowledge about the dangers of HIV, the prevalence of infection increased during the period of study from 1998 to 2000.
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  Social obstacles, community participation and HIV prevention in a South African mining community

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Community participation and peer education are essential parts of HIV prevention programmes - which face social barriers to their effective implementation. In a South African mining community obstacles, such as the way in which the project was set up and managed, hindered success. For success to be achieved, local people must feel ownership of the project through full participation.
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  Making voluntary counselling and HIV testing work for South African miners

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) is an integral part of many HIV care and control programmes. Mineworkers in Free State, South Africa have had access to VCT at primary health centres since 1992, but few requested tests spontaneously.
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  Engendering Budgets: A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive Budgets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003

  This guide is part of ongoing work by the Commonwealth Secretariat to encourage and support Commonwealth governments to draw-up budgets that are more gender-sensitive. Budgets that are gender-blind potentially widen inequality between groups of women and men in areas such as health, income, education and nutrition.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Learning from South Africa?

  Agenda Feminist Publishing, 2001

  In what ways does political transformation mean a change in meanings and practice of citizenship - in the relationships between individuals and the state? This paper discusses the experiences of women, particularly black women, of citizenship in South Africa, where the new administration promised a new politics based on civil society and universal citizenship.
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  Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2003

  This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems.
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  The politics of poverty

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This essay reviews the status of poverty and inequality i South Africa before exploring the contestation over how to lessen both. It argues that they are (at least partly) fuelled by the fact that ‘poverty’ has many meanings within government and the progressive movement, as it does among academics and commentators.
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  The adoption and impact of agricultural biotechnology innovations in South Africa

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of the few developing countries and probably the only one in Africa that has adopted some new biotechnology inputs, largely maize and cotton seeds, but what research is being performed to investigate the effects?
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  BT cotton in South Africa: adoption and the impact on farm incomes amongst small-scale and large scale farmers

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of few developing countries, and the only one in Africa that has adopted genetically modified crops for commercial production, so why has this policy been pursued, and with what effects?

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