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  Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

  Overseas Development Institute, 2010

  How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection (SP) and livelihoods (LH) approaches can play an important role in terms of climate adaptive capacity.
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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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  Economic conditions, living conditions and poverty in Mozambique

  Afrobarometer, 2010

  This brief paper seeks to examine how ordinary Mozambicans experience economic trends, in view of the bright official growth and inflation rates. For this purpose, the paper uses the findings of Afrobarometer public opinion surveys from 2002, 2005 and 2008.
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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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  Aid and budget transparency in Mozambique

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2010

  External donors contributed some US$1.6 billion in aid to the Government of Mozambique in 2009. These donors have all committed to making aid more effective by adhering to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and to the Accra Agenda for Action. However information about how much money is available, how it is being spent and what are the results of that aid are still poor.
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  The impact of democracy in Mozambique: assessing political, social and economic developments since the dawn of democracy

  Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2009

  Civil war, sabotage from neighbouring states, and economic collapse characterised the first decade of Mozambican independence. During most of the civil war, the government was unable to exercise effective control outside of urban areas, many of which were cut off from the capital.
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  'Opitanha' revisited: assessing the implications of PARPA II in rural northern Mozambique 2006-2009

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
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  Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels

  World Bank, 2009

  This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.
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  Communication for empowerment

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2010

  This paper highlights the importance of communication as a tool and a methodology that can make development strategies more effective, sustainable, and  pro-poor and gender-sensitive. Communication has the power to change societies, and communication channels are key determinants of inclusive participation.

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