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    Consolidating democratic governance in the SADC region: transitions and prospects for consolidation

    Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, 2008
    The SADC region has made strides towards democratic governance but still faces numerous democratic deficits that need serious attention if democratic consolidation is to occur and endure. This study investigates causal and incidental linkages between political transitions on the one hand, and democracy and democratisation on the other, within the Southern African context.
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    UNIDO and renewable energy: greening the industrial agenda

    United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2010
    Renewable energy has become a viable option for enhancing access to energy at most places through on/off grid electrification, both in urban and rural areas, and promoting productive uses and industrial applications in energy intensive industrial sectors, especially in SMEs. Industry needs reliable and affordable energy to become productive and competitive.
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    Low-carbon energy projects for development in Sub-Saharan Africa Unveiling the potential, addressing the barriers

    World Bank, 2008
    Sub-Saharan Africa has an opportunity of choosing a cleaner development pathway via low-carbon energy alternatives that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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    Zambian citizens, democracy and political participation

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    The end of one-party rule in Zambia towards the end of the 1980’s, resulted in Zambians getting an opportunity to monitor the performance of their government on governance issues with a view to helping to shape their own destiny.
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    Security and democracy in Southern Africa

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This study investigates the interface between security, at both the national and regional levels, and democratisation. The paper asserts that security and democratic governance are intertwined. The paper focuses particularly on the South African Development Community (SADC) region, studying its countries as relevant example. The paper concludes the following:
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    Looking beyond funding to improve secondary education in Zambia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Zambia's education system is in crisis. Teachers are drastically underpaid, educational materials are lacking, and classrooms are overcrowded. Many schools depend on community support as government funding is so unreliable.
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    Sectoral support for primary education in Zambia and Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The shift by development agencies from project aid to sector and general budget support has had important implications for education in Zambia and Uganda.
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    Community Markets For Conservation Programme (COMACO) Phase II: appraisal of the proposal to the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Lusaka, Zambia

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    This paper reviews the proposal for a Phase II of the Community Markets for Conservation Programme (COMACO) in Zambia. The programme is seen as a tool to offer poachers and charcoal burners incentives for abandoning illegal activities to protect wildlife and biodiversity through improved farming technologies and access to agricultural markets.
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    The internet and mobile telephony: implications for women's development and empowerment in Zambia

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2006
    This presentation of the author’s research concentrates on two ICTs, the internet and mobile phones, to discuss social and economic development as well as empowerment aspects or lack therefore resulting from the use and access of these two particular ICTs in Zambia.It highlights the fact that with the perceived social and economic development that such ICTs might bring comes to some extent c
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    A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

    HelpAge International, 2009
    The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension.

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