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    Western policies are responsible for Africa’s failure to develop

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Development policies are based on a flawed analysis of the history of development by the West. African development strategies need to solve local problems with the existing material and intellectual resources of local people. Africa does not need big social goals but small policies that make everyday life more predictable.Two ideas are central to the concept of development.
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    Rural labour markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: a new view of poverty, power and policy

    Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS, 2008
    Although working for wages is a central feature of poor people’s livelihoods in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little attempt has been made so far to increase the contribution of rural labour markets to growth and poverty reduction in this part of the world. One reason for this is the unavailability of information that captures the complexity of labour activities in rural 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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    You can't learn to swim until you get into the water: policy formulation and implementation on a practical level

    Eldis Document Store, 2000
    Can rural livelihoods in Mozambique be improved by agricultural reform? How do donors and NGOs influence policy and practice to better address poverty and gender issues?
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    Understanding market-based livelihoods in a globalising world: combining approaches and methods

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005
    What happens when livelihoods analysis and value chain analysis are used in combination? How can research on livelihoods and markets produce policy-oriented information? This IIED paper argues that developing policies to enhance people’s livelihoods through market access requires understanding both livelihoods assets and strategies, and the nature of markets for particular goods.
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    Cities, disasters and livelihoods

    Reliefweb, 2000
    Does the livelihoods approach help to interpreting the complexities of urban poverty? Can it act as a tool for linking micro level households to macro level municipality controls? Using recent disaster case studies, Sanderson analyses how livelihoods can offer an approach that focuses on vulnerable households, and unifies understandings of disaster management with development planning.
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    State recognition of traditional authority in Mozambique: the legible space between state and community

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2006
    Twenty-five years after the FRELIMO government abolished the formal power of traditional leaders in Mozambique, the Decree 15/2000 provided for their re-inclusion in the performance of a long list of state administrative tasks and re-named chiefs or régulos as ‘community authorities’.
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    Gender, Remmitances and Development: Preliminary Findings From Selected SADC Countries

    2007
    This report, from a UN-INSTRAW research programme on remittances and migration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, analyses migration strategies, motivations, patterns and flows for different groups of women and men, including asylum seekers and refugees, as well as economic migrants.
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    Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis

    Development in Practice, 2008
    This issue of the journal has a special focus on “Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis” , and aims to add value to the discussion of methodological, practical, philosophical, political, and institutional issues involved in using gender-sensitive participatory methods. The articles included are:
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    Non-state justice systems in southern Africa: how should governments respond

    Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2003
    This report investigates non-state justice systems in six southern African countries: South Africa, Malawi, Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia and Mozambique. The report argues that contrary to the generally held view, much of the non-state justice in these countries is undertaken by the state functionaries themselves.

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