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    Spaces of vulnerability: migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

    Southern African Migration Project, 2002
    A number of different factors have been advanced to explain the general picture of HIV/AIDS in South Africa including its rapid spread, high prevalence and uneven distribution.
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    HIV/AIDS and the education sector: the foundations of a control and management strategy in South Africa

    International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2000
    This document sets out to respond to a request from the UN Economic Commission for Africa for details about what is being done in South Africa to control and manage HIV/AIDS in the education sector, and to mitigate its consequences.The author begins by giving an overview of the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, before looking more deeply at the impacts of the pandemic on the educat
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    Case study of Lekgophung Tourism Lodge, South Africa

    Eldis Document Store, 2002
    This case study, of a community owned wildlife tourism lodge in the north West Province of South Africa, explores the benefits accruing to the communities on the border of the reserve from the venture.Taking a livelihoods analysis perspective, the study considers the following aspects:structural arrangementsfundingfinancial returns and ‘SMME’ (small and medium enterprise) linkag
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    Papers of FAO/SARPN Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Land, Pretoria

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
    Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups.
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    Sandton rates dispute: local government restructuring and financing of equitable services

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Local government has been the focus of key governance strategies both in the apartheid period and in the post-apartheid transformation to democracy in South Africa.
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    The National Peace Accord and its structures

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The relatively peaceful transition to a fully democratic society in South Africa has been a surprise to both internal and external observers and commentators in light of the country's history of systematic violation of human, social, political and economic rights under apartheid.
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    The community telecentre cookbook for Africa: recipes for self-sustainability

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2001
    Although interest in Telecentres is widespread, they are a new concept, so there is a shortage of knowledge on how to establish and sustain them, especially in Africa.
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    Situation and voices: the older poor and excluded in South Africa and India

    United Nations Population Fund, 2002
    In order to sharpen international focus on some of the key operational challenges faced by older people today, UNFPA commissioned a pilot study in South Africa and India. The study methodology entailed a literature review, including an analysis of the socio-cultural factors affecting older people, and a participatory assessment of how older persons perceive their lives.
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    Corporate accountability in search of a treaty? Some insights from foreign direct liability

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002
    This Briefing Paper looks at two sets of legal actions that attempted to secure transnational corporate accountability. The cases are examples of increasing efforts to establish ‘foreign direct liability’ – holding parent companies accountable in home country courts to people affected by their environmental, social or human rights impacts in other countries.
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    Computers in secondary schools in developing countries: costs and other issues

    Department for International Development, UK, 2002
    This research paper provides an overview of average cost of providing computers in schools. It then examines some of the arguments for the use of computers in schools in developing countries, before reviewing previous work undertaken on the costs of such provision.

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