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    Review of Experience with Evaluation in the Fund

    International Monetary Fund, 2000
    Providesan outline of the existing evaluation structure in the Fund and a list of evaluations undertaken since 1996discusses the principles which should guide effective independent evaluationprovides an overview of the external evaluations undertaken by the Fund since 1996 and identifies particular issues arising from theexperience that any effort to strengthen the Fund's capacit
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    Towards National Public Expenditure Strategies for Poverty Reduction

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Sets out thinking since the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Iniative II linked debt relief to national poverty reduction frameworks in summer 1999 (including the requirement to draft draft comprehensive Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)) It reviews governance conditions and budgetary processes which are likely to generate and implement national public programmes to assist the poor.
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    Communications framework for HIV/AIDS: a new direction

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    This UNAIDS paper describes consultative findings and recommendations on ways to make HIV/AIDS communications more effective in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper begins by re-assessing existing models and theories in HIV/AIDS communications. Findings suggest that there are five main aspects of social and environmental context that impact on HIV/AIDS behaviour change.
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    Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.
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    Incomes and Poverty in Rural Zimbabwe During Adjustment: The Case of Shindi Ward, Chivi Communal Area

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1999
    As the 1990s have progressed, there have been increasing concerns expressed about the effects of the structural adjustment programme in Zimbabwe, both from within and outside the country.
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    UNDP Poverty Report 2000: Overcoming Human Poverty

    Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
    Argues that a new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted - with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries are being encouraged to launch full-scale campaigns against poverty.
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    Assessing trends in EC development policy: an independent review of the European Commission’s external aid reform process

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2000
    Review of recent efforts to reform the European Commission's external assistance, both in terms of strategy (what is the added value of EC aid?) and management (how should the Commission organise itself?)Recommends six key areas for reform: refine the EC policy frameworkintroduce a radical new approach to programminguse complementarity as a strategic management toolensure th
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    NGOs and Peace Building in Complex Political Emergencies: Final Report to the Department for International Development

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2000
    Assesses the contribution of NGOs to peace-building and the ways in which NGOs, and the donors who support them, might strengthen that contribution. The overall study attempted to assess the impacts of NGOs on peace and conflict.
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    An end to forgotten emergencies?

    Oxfam, 2000
    As Western countries have got richer in the past ten years, the proportion of their wealth spent on humanitarian aid has gone down by 30%. The number of forgotten emergencies looks set to increase. The required response is not aid alone. Oxfam continues to press for international efforts to prevent conflict, tackle poverty, and promote respect for human rights. Yet humanitarian aid remains vital.
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    Information, ICTs and Small Enterprise: Lessons from Botswana

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999
    The potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development can only be assessed by first understanding current information practices and needs in such enterprises.

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