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  Strengthening the research to policy and practice interface: exploring strategies used by research organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011

  As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy.
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  e-Governance and developing countries

  International Institute for Communication and Development, 2001

  Is e-Governance more than just a government website on the Internet? What is it exactly? What are the benefits of e-Governance? What can governments do to make it work? This report looks into the definitions of e-Governance, presents a general e-Governance model and several case studies, discusses technology aspects, and follows up with a SWOT analysis on e-Governance in developing countries.
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  Identification of potential aquaculture and fish processing investment projects and partners in selected countries in Africa: nine countries profiles

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009

  This document reviews nine countries' profiles that were made in the context of a Norwegian study on potential aquaculture and fish processing investment in Africa. The report tries to determine the countries which have the best resource base, investment, and trade environment.
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  Recognising Rights, Promoting Progress: The global impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010

  This report sets out some examples of the impact CEDAW has had around the world, focusing on case studies where CEDAW’s ratification and implementation has led to concrete changes in the opportunities afforded to women and girls. The case studies are grouped into four main areas: • Ending violence and trafficking in women and girls
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  Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

  Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010

  Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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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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  Improving health services and strengthening health systems: adopting and implementing innovative strategies - an exploratory review in twelve countries

  World Health Organization, 2006

  In recent years, a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, the World Health Organization(WHO) commissioned this exploratory study to examine more closely the track record of these strategies in twelve low-income countries.
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  Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.
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  What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment has failed because the policies have sidestepped the developmental needs of Africa.
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  Community self-mobilisation to end open defecation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).

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