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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    Security sector reform in Zimbabwe: what, why and how?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2009
    On the 15th of September 2008, a power-sharing agreement was brokered between the major political parties in Zimbabwe, namely, the Tsvangirai-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), the Mutambara-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-M) and the then ruling Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) of Robert Mugabe.
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    Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School-based Student Health Survey

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009
    This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five African countries.
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    Izwi neTarisiro – Zimbabwe’s citizens jury

    2003
    This article is about a citizen’s jury in Zimbabwe that was held in a bid to improve the quality and relevance of policies that affect smallholder farmers who are struggling economically. The purpose of the jury was to locally adapt, test and evaluate a participatory, deliberative and inclusive framework that could encourage smallholder involvement in agricultural policy formulation.
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    Observations on the intersections of human rights and local practice: a livelihood perspective on water

    Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal, 2008
    This report explores how local water management practices incorporate water within a broader right to livelihood framework. Field research findings conducted in Zimbabwe support the existence of a right to water forming part of a broader right to livelihood.
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    The logic of political decay and reconstruction in Uganda and Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Civil war, authoritarian rule, falling incomes, poverty, widespread corruption has made life for many Africans difficult today than it was at the end of colonial rule. This long-term crisis generated a sequence of theoretical discussions and policy responses. But the African crisis is ongoing.
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    Governance and state delivery in Southern Africa

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
    This document is composed of three papers: the contributions on Namibia and Botswana look at the extent to which these countries are able to set standards in terms of well functioning democracies; the paper on Zimbabwe argues that the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) should be enforced as a way out of the current impasse.
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    Political opposition in African countries: the cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
    This document is a compilation of three research papers originally presented to the Research Committee on Comparative Sociology at the XVI World Congress of Sociology held in 2006. The first chapter examines perceptions and attitudes regarding the influence of ethnicity on politics in Kenya and Zambia. The paper finds that:
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    Caring from within: key findings and policy recommendations on home-based care in Zimbabwe

    Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service, 2008
    In Zimbabwe, as in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, home-based care (HBC) plays a vital role in the response to HIV, as overwhelmed public health systems fail to meet care needs. This joint publication from HDN and SAfAIDS provides an overview of experiences and lessons learned in the implementation of eight Irish aid-funded projects in Zimbabwe.
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    Understanding and supporting the role of local organisations in sustainable development

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This publication is one in a series of case studies that reviews the experiences of local organisations in development and environmental management . It also examines the different kinds of external funding that best supported their efforts. The case studies are based on reflections by IIED and 6 of its local partners from Puerto Rico, Peru, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Argentina and Tanzania.

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