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How to end child marriage: action strategies for prevention and protection
International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these girls are often subjected to domestic violence, sexual abuse and social isolation.DocumentLinks between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: situation analysis for arid and semi-arid lands in southern Africa
Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widespread urbanisation, modernisation, and globalisation, along with the primacy of capitalist economic models, the obvious reliance of humans on ecosystems has become diluted for many, and difficult to maintain for others.DocumentMozambique as a model for national disaster response strategies
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008In early 2007, Mozambique suffered severe flooding in its central region and a cyclone that devastated southern coastal districts. Although up to 500,000 people were affected, the emergency response was largely successful because the Government was well prepared.DocumentIndia’s engagement with the African Indian Ocean rim states
Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2008Despite viewing the Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) as its backyard, India has historically shown limited engagement in the region as it:DocumentRegional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs
Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) in southern Africa.DocumentAnalysing Mozambique’s commitment to democracy
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008Is democracy in Mozambique simply a strategy to win support from donors? What do the urban middle class think of the ideological shift within the Liberation Front of Mozambique (Frelimo), the political party that led the country to independence in 1975? Do they support multiparty democracy and economic liberalisation?DocumentForests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.DocumentOutsourcing agricultural advisory services: enhancing rural innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Royal Tropical Institute, 2008A pluralistic advisory service system is already a fact of life for many farmers in Africa. Over the last few years, outsourcing has become increasingly important in several sub-Saharan African countries and this bulletin takes the opportunity to learn lessons that can further guide this process.DocumentUncovering dynamics in the accumulation of technological capabilities and skills in the Mozambican manufacturing sector
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2008This paper examines manufacturing dynamics in Mozambique from an industrial technology perspective. It focuses on two main themes critical to understanding current patterns of technology and skill formation in the Mozambican manufacturing sector - the analysis of underlying historical trends of skillsDocumentStrong party, weak state? Frelimo and state survival through the Mozambican civil war: an anlytical narrative on state-making
Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007Mozambique has been described as a model of state resilience as the ruling Frelino Party has managed to maintain power through years of economic collapse and civil conflict.Pages