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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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  Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2003

  This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  Realignment of debt service obligations and ability to pay in concessional lending: feasibility and modalities

  HIPC Progress to Date, World Bank, 2003

  This paper studies schemes which have the potential to increase the flexibility of heavily indebted primary producing countries in meeting their debt service obligations by making debt service repayments contingent on the world prices of the commodities they export.
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  IFAD desk review of the PRSP Process in Eastern and Southern Africa

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  This desk analysis is based on an analysis of the PRSP process in 10 countries (Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia).
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  Public procurement: lessons from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  This paper presents a comparative analysis of the public procurement system in three East African countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
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  Cross-border issues related to the provision of animal health services with reference to Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper highlights various issues related to provision of animal health services in areas near national boundaries with reference to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia, and also suggests ways of improving service provision and delivery in these areas.
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003

  National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.
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  Cutting the risk? Male circumcision and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  HIV prevalence varies both within and between countries in Africa. How can these differences be explained? Within Africa, male circumcision appears to be more common in regions with relatively low HIV rates. Does circumcision reduce the risk of HIV infection?

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