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    Facing the Resource Curse: Norway’s Oil for Development Program

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2012
    Norway's Oil for Development (OfD), begun in 2005, is a comprehensive program addressing resource, financial and environmental dimensions with a focus on capacity development in the public sector but including larger sector governance concerns.
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    African Media Barometer (Ghana 2011)

    fesmedia Africa, 2011
    The African Media Barometer (AMB) is an in-depth and comprehensive description and measurement system for national media environments on the African continent. This report focuses on the media landscape in Ghana in 2011.
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    Adaptive capacities of farmers to climate change adaptation strategies and their effects on rice production in the northern region of Ghana

    Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2012
    This study examines the adaptive capacities of farmers to climate change adaptation strategies and their effects on rice production in the northern region of Ghana. The adaptive capacities of rice farmers were estimated quantitatively and categorised into high, moderate and low adaptive capacities.
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    Ghana’s relations with China

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    This policy report examines relations between Ghana and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which established official diplomatic ties in 1960. On the second leg of Premier Wen Jiabao’s seven-nation tour of Africa in June 2007, China and Ghana issued a joint communiqué on strengthening cooperation in trade, infrastructure, telecommunications, education, health and culture.
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    Redefining 'aid' in the China–Africa context

    Wiley Online Library, 2010
    Discussions on the politics of Chinese engagement with Africa have been marked by China being criticised for using aid in exchange for preferential energy deals and undermining good governance in Africa.
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    Socio-economic conditions in REDD+ pilot areas: A synthesis of five baseline surveys

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
    The project Poverty and sustainable development impacts of REDD+ architecture: Options for equity, growth and the environment (POVSUS-REDD+) was initiated in 2009.
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    A guide on adaptation options for local decision-makers: guidance for decision making to cope with costal changes in west Africa

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2012
    This guide on adaptation options is aimed at local decision-makers on the coastal regions of west Africa and takes the form of a series of fact sheets, each including methods of implementation, positive and negative case studies and estimated costs.
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    Africa Adaptation Programme knowledge management needs survey report 2012

    2012
    This report is a broad assessment of the knowledge needs of the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) countries. It hopes to help these countries capture, share and capitalise on the wealth of climate- and development-related knowledge available, thus enabling them to pursue data driven agendas and resilience-boosting strategies.
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    Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration

    United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
    This comparative study highlights that rainfall variability and food insecurity are key drivers for human mobility. The empirical research is based on eight country case studies, including a 1,300 household survey and participatory research sessions involving 2,000 individuals. The results reveal that migration is an important risk management strategy for vulnerable households.
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    Making the forest sector transparent: annual transparency report 2011

    Global Witness, 2012
    This annual report, produced by Global Witness together with a coalition of non-governmental organisations in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia and Peru, assesses whether the right information is being made available to citizens to ensure that they have a say in how their forests are managed.

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