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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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    Overcoming the Gender Digital Divide: Understanding ICTs and their Potential for the Empowerment of Women

    2003
    The "gender digital divide" is used to describe the existing inequalities and biases in access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by women and men. The fact that ICTs have so far been predominantly designed and created within male-dominated environments and that ICT policies are usually formulated by male policy-makers has contributed to this divide.
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    No women, no peace: gender perspectives on positive peace initiatives

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many UN and European Commission resolutions have recognized that marginalisation and neglect of women have stymied peace initiatives. Why, then, is gender analysis still conspicuously absent from peacebuilding programmes?
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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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    Death, data and demographics: AIDS and adult mortality in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Adult mortality is increasing in many parts of Africa. Is this due to AIDS? Can existing data answer this question? What other statistics are needed to document the spread of the AIDS epidemic in Africa?
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    Gender gaps and primary schooling: promising policy options for sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Belief that investment in girls’ and women’s education will result in broader development gains and poverty reduction has received widespread acceptance internationally. But what can be done to close the primary education gender gap between girls and boys? How can we achieve universal primary education by 2015?
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    Catalyst for local democracy? Land reform in Eastern and Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    From Eritrea to South Africa land tenure laws are in a state of flux. In every nation in eastern and southern Africa, apart from those wracked by conflict, tenure reform is either under discussion or coming on stream. What is driving this change? What are the consequences for landholders, for democratization and the nature of state power? Who are the potential winners and losers?
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    New solution? Can a sectoral approach to education meet international targets?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The late 1990s saw a shift in many funding agency education support packages from relatively small, often stand-alone education projects towards sector wide approaches (SWA or SWAps). When and how are such larger, broad-based system support programmes effective?
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    Learning and not learning. Community conservation policies in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Since 1990 concepts, policies and practices of wildlife conservation and management in sub-Saharan Africa have shifted towards a community-based approach, part of a global move towards community-based conservation. This trend emphatically counters earlier policies of 'Fortress Conservation' that sought to sequester local people from wildlife.
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    Community-based wildlife conservation in East Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Large-scale protectionist programmes have increasingly been abandoned in favour of community-based wildlife conservation. But the huge range of initiatives makes it difficult to assess the value and impact of these. A new review of community conservation efforts in East Africa finds that much remains to be done, particularly at policy, legal and institutional levels.

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