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    Starting a pro-poor public private partnership for a basic urban service

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    Pro-poor Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can supply better basic services to poor communities in cities and towns. This report provides a guideline on how to start up a pro-poor PPP to deliver these service in an urban setting. It draws on concrete lessons and experiences. Four basic steps to setting up a PPP are provided:
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    Food and the poor: how can democratic local governments reduce food insecurity in Africa?

    United Nations Capital Development Fund, 2007
    Food insecurity dramatically affects millions of people both in rural areas and in urban centers of poor countries, with unacceptable human, economic, social and political consequences. This book highlights the specific roles that emerging democratic local governments have to play in reducing food insecurity.
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    Social protection in the Arab region: the challenging concept and the hard reality

    Social Watch, 2007
    According to current trends, future prospects in the Arab region appear to point towards less protection and further marginalisation of the unemployed, the abject poor, and workers in the informal sector. Such negative projections stem from the persistence of existing budgetary constraints on social security systems and inefficient public expenditure.
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    Decentralisation and poverty reduction: a conceptual framework for the economic impact

    GIGA Deutsches Orient-Institut / GIGA German Institute for Middle East Studies, 2007
    What is the impact of decentralisation on poverty? To address the question, this paper focuses on the economic and political impact that the former has on the latter. It examines whether the commonly used argument of decentralisation leading to increased efficiency and thus poverty reduction has a theoretical underpinning.
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    Voices of the poor: synthesis and recommendations

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    Why do poor South Africans have a hard time accessing urban land? This report analyses the perspectives and experiences of civil society organisations (CSOs) whose aims are to increase the poor’s access to urban land. A wide range of issues are identified as obstacles to access to urban land, they include:
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    The Americas social security report 2007

    Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social / Inter-American Conference on Social Security, Mexico, 2006
    Processes associated with globalisation have lead to a range of new challenges relating to social protection throughout the Americas.
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    "It is almost half time": will the SADC region achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the target date of 2015?

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    This paper summarises the proceedings of a policy dialogue on progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The dialogue brought together representatives of civil society, government and intergovernmental organisations from throughout the region.
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    Institute for Democratic Governance

    As a civil society research, advocacy and capacity building organisation, IDEG is committed to a set of organisational principles and objectives.
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    Building inclusive citizenship and democracies

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    This policy brief summarises the findings of recent research on the role of citizens in building democracy, arguing that greater citizen engagement is crucial for creating more accountable states. Primary conclusions from the research include:
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    Balancing government, donors and civil society for poverty reduction in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Uganda has been relatively stable since 1986, when President Museveni took power. Nevertheless, the country has not fully recovered from years of conflict and economic decline, and around half of all Ugandans live in poverty. The government, donors and non-government organisations are working to reduce poverty, but they need to work with each other to succeed.

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