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  Southern Africa food security outlook: October 2007 to March 2008

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  This report summarises the results of a study of the food security outlook for Southern Africa, highlighting the major threats to food security in the period October 2007 to March 2008. It incorporates the findings from six country outlooks, and aims to provide a basis for regional and global resource allocation and contingency planning, as well as in-country planning.
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  A value chain task force approach for managing private-public partnerships: Zambia's task force on acceleration of cassava utilisation

  US Agency for International Development, 2007

  Smallholder farmers operate in vertical supply chains, so an understanding of key opportunities and constraints up through the value chain becomes necessary for sustaining smallholder growth. Yet market analysis is of little value unless key private and public sector stakeholders agree to implement necessary reforms.
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  Understanding and challenging HIV stigma: Toolkit for action (2007)

  Pact Tanzania, 2007

  What is the impact of stigma on children? This toolkit aims to help explore and understand the different ways in which children are stigmatised, and to look at strategies to change attitudes and experiences.
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  Evaluation study on appropriate models of livelihood strategies for social protection in Zambia

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007

  Due to serious deterioration of socio-economic conditions in Zambia, the government is considering the adoption of a national Social Protection Strategy. This report examines Zambian and international livelihood approaches that target low capacity and incapacitated households. It provides the following:
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  Evaluation of Norwegian development support to Zambia (1991 – 2005): case studies: wildlife management and natural resources, transparency in financial management, agriculture in northern province

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2008

  This is an evaluation of Norwegian development cooperation with Zambia between 1991 and 2005. The context for the evaluation is a perception of the ineffectiveness of aid to Zambia in general, and Norwegian aid in particular, in addressing the continuing, and at times deteriorating, levels of poverty in the country.
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  The enemy within: southern African militaries’ quarter-century battle with HIV and AIDS

  Institute for Security Studies, 2007

  This report from the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa looks at the armies of Botswana, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the context of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. These armies report HIV rates between 20 to 40 percent, with some sections having a rate between 50 to 60 percent.
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  Pioneers, partners, providers: the dynamics of civil society & AIDS funding in southern Africa

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2007

  There has been a huge increase in the amount of money available to fight AIDs thanks to the Global Fund and the United States President’s Emergency Plan. However, there is a widespread perception in southern Africa that these funds are being ‘wasted’. So what should be done to improve efficiency, delivery and effective resource management?
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  Costs benefits analysis of HIV workplace programmes in Zambia

  International Organization for Migration, 2007

  While companies participating in Zambia’s Global Development Alliance (GDA) programme acknowledge the benefits of HIV and AIDS programming in the workplace, the efficiency of such programming has not been documented. This study assesses the costs and benefits of workplace HIV and AIDS programmes of several companies in Zambia.
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  In the best interests of the child: harmonising laws in Eastern and Southern Africa

  African Child Policy Forum, 2007

  This report reviews and analyses how far 19 Eastern and Southern African countries have gone in harmonising and implementing the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC, or 'the African Charter').
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  Following the funding for HIV/AIDS: a comparative analysis of the funding practices of PEPFAR, the Global Fund and World Bank MAP in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2007

  Donor funding for HIV/AIDS has skyrocketed in the last decade: from US$ 300 million in 1996 to US$ 8.9 billion in 2006; yet, little is understood about how these resources are being spent. This paper analyses the policies and practices of the world’s largest AIDS donors as they are applied in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia.

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