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  Supporting the urban poor to become development actors: a Thai experience

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can local institutions contribute to urban poverty reduction? Can housing and loan schemes strengthen community organisations and boost their capacity to negotiate with urban authorities? Can community savings and credit activities power a community’s own holistic development and empower them to gradually erode the causes of poverty?
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  Accountability and social activism: a new strategy for achieving socioeconomic rights in a democratic South Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper argues that in failing to effectively uphold principles of transparency and accountability, government departments ought to be subject to public scrutiny by social activists and advocacy groups.
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  Surmounting challenges: procurement of antiretroviral medicines in low- and middle-income countries

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003

  As the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in low- and middle-income countries has fallen in recent years, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations have been able to start developing treatment programmes for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
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  South-South collaboration picks up steam

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  Nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa and China are increasingly acknowledging that they share not only common social and economic challenges, but also common goals in international trade negotiations.
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  Headlines and Head-space: Challenging Gender Planning

  BRIDGE, 2003

  Attitudes and political commitment are more important than tools and techniques in ensuring gender is mainstreamed. This is the conclusion of a study of a highly acclaimed urban development project in Cato Manor, Durban, South Africa. This paper questions a dominant assumption of gender planning: that an explicit gender focus needs to be maintained in development projects.
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  Towards a ten year review: synthesis report on implementation of South African government programmes

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This review sets out to assess the extent to which the new democratic dispensation since 1994 has redirected the purpose and content of government policy and seeks to describe the impact of these changes on South African society.
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  The cost of treating HIV/AIDS with ARVs in South Africa: Who knows? Who cares?

  International AIDS Economics Network, 2002

  This paper reports on a survey conducted of completed studies and research in progress produced by public, private and non-government institutions that have estimated and documented the cost of treatment of HIV/AIDS with ARVs in South Africa.
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  Can decentralisation promote pro-poor development planning systems?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Can development planning close the gap between high level strategic thinking and the local level context? How can national poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) complement the decentralisation of development functions? Are local government officials sufficiently sensitive to development needs? How can we judge the successes and failures of decentralisation processes?
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  Local law: tackling the environment at city level

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can urban environmental problems best be tackled? A study looks at the emergence of a new kind of city-wide initiative to address environmental issues, known as Local Agenda 21 (LA21). It assesses its significance and suggests ways in which it can be made more successful.
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  Demystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003

  This paper uses the example of a poor township 30 kilometres outside Cape Town to find out if antiretroviral therapy is possible in severely resource-constrained environments and to discover the best ways to deliver these drugs.Zidovudine (AZT), first became available in Khayelitsha township’s two maternity wards in early 1999, and the programme has subsequently become one of the continent’s bi

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