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  Technical paper: The risk of disaster-induced displacement in the Pacific island states

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014

  This technical paper represents an initial attempt to assess the risk of disaster-induced displacement in 21 island states in the South Pacific.
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  Zambia - Atlas of our Changing Environment

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  Zambia has abundant water resources, vast forests, huge mineral deposits, and large tracts of arable land. These natural resources are important for the country’s economy, with copper and cobalt being the country’s main exports.
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  Distributing mining wealth to communities in Ghana: Addressing problems of elite capture and political corruption

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013

  In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly in rural communities where mining takes place.
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  The integration of natural resource markets as a means to peacebuilding in Latin America

  2013

  The rising prices of natural resources and generally stronger economies in Latin America have led to deeper economic integration among the countries of the region. Former foes have now become economically interdependent, reducing the risk of serious conflict.
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  Who rules Nigeria?

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2012

  Nigeria has experienced military coups, a civil war and very poor economic development, and its population is more impoverished today than at independence. Behind this lies the “oil curse”. The ruling elite has captured the rents generated from oil for personal enrichment and power purposes. Nigeria’s elite formation has three distinct characteristics.
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  Wildlife Management in Tanzania: State Control, Rent Seeking and Community Resistance

  Development and Change Journal, 2013

  Despite a decade of rhetoric on community conservation, current trends in Tanzania reflect a disturbing process of reconsolidation of state control over wildlife resources and increased rent-seeking behaviour, combined with dispossession of communities.
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  Strengthening the Africa Environment Information Network: a framework to increase access to environmental information and to support Africa's development planning processes

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The Africa Environmental Information Network (AfricaEIN) seeks to support African countries as they keep their state of the environment under review; to improve and provide integrated environmental assessment products that support national development planning processes; to strengthen the capacities of countries to meet environmental reporting obligations, including State of the Environment (SO
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  Project final evaluation report. Climate Change Adaptation Capacity in Madagascar.

  2012

  As stated in the TOR, the primary purpose of the final evaluation is to assess mainly the impact, effectiveness and relevance of the project in relation to its stated purpose, objectives, target groups, partners and other affected parties. It is also to assess project progress towards its stated purpose and identification of constraints hindering such progress.
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  WWF Mara River Basin Management Initiative, Kenya and Tanzania. Phase III - final evaluation report

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013

  The scarce water resources of the transboundary Mara River Basin (13,750 km2), in Kenya and Tanzania are essential to more than one million people, multiple water uses and the world-famous Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem and its economically very important tourism industry.
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  Non timber forest products to deal with climate change in Tanzania

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  Over 20 million Tanzanians depend on Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) for their livelihood. One CCIAM project is looking into how NTFPs as part of peoples´ livelihood strategy is connected to climate change, so that this information can be spread and forest dependent people can more easily adapt to the effects of climate change.

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