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    The macroeconomics of scaling-up aid: what we know in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Focusing on the cases of Kenya, Malawi and Zambia, this paper aims to identify how concerns about macroeconomic instability have curtailed an effective response to MDG scale-up. It compares spending and absorption before and during aid surge periods to demonstrate the stance taken by the macroeconomic authorities in each country.
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    Climate change in eastern and southern Africa: impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

    Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008
    In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that all of Africa is likely to warm during this century, with the drier subtropical regions warming more than the moist tropics. Annual rainfall is likely to decrease throughout most of the region, with the exception of eastern Africa, where annual rainfall is projected to increase.
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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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    The Great Lakes Pact and the rights of displaced people: a guide for civil society

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent conflict.
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    REBA case study brief

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly being used to address hunger and vulnerability in Sub Saharan Africa – often as an alternative to food aid. Such interventions have been informed by different models of social protection.
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    National plans of action for orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa: where are the youngest children?

    Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2008
    Although it is recognised that the focus of support must be on all children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, including those living with sick parents or in extreme poverty, the youngest are often invisible to programme planners, despite their vulnerability.
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    In defence of Africa’s informal sector

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    For decades, development theorists and African leaders stigmatised informal employment as an unfortunate reality set to disappear as ‘modernisation’ spread. The police often harassed street traders, petty artisans and inhabitants of unauthorised settlements. By the 1990s attitudes were often more tolerant, but is South Africa returning to former prejudice?
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    Mapping Chinese development assistance in Africa: a synthesis analysis of Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe

    African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2008
    With a focus on Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Angola, this report studies the nature, coordination and management of China’s aid to Africa. The findings aim to be used for public campaigning and dialogue with civil society organisations and governments in the countries concerned in order to demystify official development assistance from China.
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    The impact of social cash transfers on children affected by HIV and AIDS: evidence from Zambia, Malawi and South Africa

    Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme, 2007
    This paper analyses the degree to which social cash transfer schemes that do not explicitly target HIV and AIDS affected people reach HIV and AIDS affected households. By comparing different schemes in Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, the study identifies the main factors that determine both the share of HIV and AIDS affected households reached, and the impact achieved.
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    Are teachers facing a motivation crisis?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Achieving the education-related Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of basic education for all by 2015 will be a major challenge for national governments, especially as concern is growing that teachers are becoming increasingly demotivated. Is there a crisis in motivation among teachers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and if so, why? How can teachers be adequately motivated?

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