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    Unlocking the potential of contract farming: lessons from Ghana

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This paper examines sorghum contract farming in north-east Ghana in order to explore ways of making such arrangements viable for small farmers. Using the narratives from the key stakeholders who have participated in the contract, this research analyses the technical and institutional problems in the scheme.The findings from this study reveal that:
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    Improving health services and strengthening health systems: adopting and implementing innovative strategies - an exploratory review in twelve countries

    World Health Organization, 2006
    In recent years, a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, the World Health Organization(WHO) commissioned this exploratory study to examine more closely the track record of these strategies in twelve low-income countries.
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    Pensions in Africa

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    In sub-Saharan Africa less than 10% of the older population has a contributory pension. This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries: Botswana, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia
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    Popular attitudes to democracy in Ghana

    Afrobarometer, 2008
    This study shows that popular support for and satisfaction with democracy in Ghana has been high and trending upwards since 2002.
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    Effective  stakeholder  participation  in  the  APRM  Process  for  the  promotion   of democratic  governance: a case study of Ghana

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2006
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is ‘an instrument voluntarily acceded to by Member States of the African Union as an African self-monitoring mechanism’. Its primary purpose is to foster the adoption of policies, standards and practices that lead to the attainment of the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).
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    Harmonization and alignment: challenges and opportunities for US and European donors post-Accra

    The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2008
    High on the agenda for developing countries at the Accra High Level Forum on aid effectiveness was a commitment to use developing country systems (alignment) and to regulate division of labour (harmonisation). Regarding alignment donor governments agreed to channel at least 50% of aid through developing country systems.
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    Reforming foreign aid practices: what country ownership is and what donors can do to support it

    Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford, 2008
    In the last decade there has been a significant shift in the paradigm for foreign aid, embodied in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2005. Recipient governments are urged to take ownership of development policies and aid activities in their country, to establish their own systems for coordinating donors, and only to accept aid that suits their needs.
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    Towards 4+5 Research Programme Consortium

    Towards 4+5 was a five year research programme  on maternal and newborn health.
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    Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.
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    How can forest communities in Ghana receive a fair share of the benefits from logging?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The forestry sector is important to Ghana's economy. But while logging companies make enormous profits from forests, people who live in forests rarely receive any of the benefits. Social Responsibility Agreements (SRAs) are one approach being used to encourage commercial logging companies to share their benefits.

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