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    Review of Matantala Rural Integrated Enterprise and the Community Development with Traditional Leaders Programme

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This report addresses the activities of the project on community development with traditional leaders funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Lusaka and implemented in Zambia. The project’s main objectives were to contribute to reduction of poverty and improvement of living conditions in three chiefdoms in Zambia’s Southern Province.
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    An overview of the state of the environmental movement in Zambia: a status report

    Development Fund, Norway, 2008
    This report presents the findings of an overview of the environmental movement in Zambia. The paper indicates that Zambia is mainly a primary commodity producer of non-renewable resources that require special care, management and application. Therefore, environmental and resources management are critical.
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    The criminal justice system in Zambia. enhancing the delivery of security in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2009
    This paper reviews the Zambian criminal justice system and draws attention to the need for reforms in that will enhance human security. It notes that Zambia has made great progress since the re-establishment of a multiparty democracy since 2002 - but there are still serious gaps in its criminal justice law reforms.
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    Small technology – big impact: practical options for development

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2009
    This publication, based on AED’s experience, shows examples of the practical application of small technology that have a big impact around the developing world. The authors argue that technology has dramatically changed the world whereby almost anyone can “move” at internet-speed.
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    Micro-level analysis of farmers' adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007
    Adaptation to climate change involves changes in agricultural management practices in response to changes in climate conditions. It often involves a combination of various individual responses at the farm-level and assumes that farmers have access to alternative practices and technologies available in the region.
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    Lessons in effective citizen activism: the anti-third term campaign in Zambia

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005
    In 2001, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba tried to change the country’s constitution to allow him to run for a third term. However, a civil society-led campaign forced the President to abandon the plan.
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    Measuring ‘success’ in five African Anti-Corruption Commissions

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005
    This paper suggests that the widespread lack of ‘success’ of anti-corruption commissions (ACCs) is intimately connected to how they are funded by donors and governments and what donors and governments expect of them. The findings here are based on the insights gained from country visits to Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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    Moving beyond gender as usual

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    In the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, it was estimated that about a third of all people infected worldwide were women. After just one decade this had risen to more than half and now today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61% of all people infected with HIV are female. This report examines national policies and then focuses on how three influential donors, the U.S.
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    Trading fish for sex in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Many women in developing countries earn a living from small-scale fisheries activities, especially from processing and trading fish. But in Africa, there have been increasing reports of male fishers exchanging fish for sex with female traders.
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    Gender review: mainstreaming gender and aids in the development portfolio of the Norwegian Embassy in Zambia

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This report is a joint gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming review, produced upon a request from the Norwegian Embassy in Lusaka. The target of the report is to see how gender and AIDS concerns could be better mainstreamed in the Embassy portfolio. Furthermore, four different programmes were selected for the review, covering relevant areas for cooperation.

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