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  Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the urban poor in Africa

  Russell Sage Foundation, 2008

  Poor people living in hazardous and unhealthy environments in urban areas may find their difficulties compounded by the consequences of climate change. These include those who construct their shelters on steep, unstable hillsides, or along the foreshore on former mangrove swamps or tidal flats.
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  Getting research into policy and practice

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009

  The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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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: four countries profiles

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009

  A Norwegian report reviewed nine African countries’ profiles in the context of potential aquaculture and fish processing investment, and revealed potentially positive attributes for four countries. This report validates these initial rankings and assesses national fisheries sectors in the four countries more specifically and realistically for investment opportunities.
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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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  Identification of potential aquaculture and fish processing investment projects and partners in selected countries in Africa: executive summary: volume I

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009

  Investment in Africa’s fishery sector has often been an uncertain matter. This Norwegian report has sought to outline the potential for fishery sector investment in Africa, and provide the basis for well-informed and well-judged commercial decisions. The review focuses on two parts of the fisheries sector: aquaculture and value addition from either aquaculture or capture fisheries.
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  Developing effective chronic disease interventions in Africa: insights from Ghana and Cameroon

  Globalization and Health, 2010

  Africa faces an urgent but "neglected epidemic" of chronic diseases. This paper, using in-depth case studies of Ghanaian and Cameroonian responses, discusses the challenge of developing effective primary and secondary prevention to tackle chronic diseases such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes and cancers.
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  Cost-minimizing food budgets in Ghana

  AgEcon Search, 2010

  Attaining the daily required nutritional recommendations is a major challenge in Ghana. This paper is tries to determine the cheapest basket of food items that satisfy the recommended daily nutritional requirements of the average Ghanaian.
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  Mind the gap!: id21 insights, issue 41

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Rural areas have long been a source of food, raw materials and labour for cities. So too, are cities places of opportunity for rural dwellers, providing markets for agricultural products, specialised services and sources of temporary employment and shelter. Urban-rural linkages are particularly intense in the periurban

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