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    “I expect to be abused and I have fear”: sex workers’ experiences of human rights violations and barriers to accessing healthcare in four African countries

    African Sex Worker Alliance, 2011
    This report documents human rights violations experienced by female, male and transgender sex workers in four African countries (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe), and describes barriers they face to accessing health services.
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    Fertility in African communities affected by HIV

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
    This "Studies of HIV in African communities 'Highlights'", which was produced by IDS Knowledge Services with partners in the ALPHA Network, includes findings and recommendations around the topic of fertility in African communities affected by HIV.  This publication is based on the research which came out of the ALPHA Network's seventh workshop on 'HIV & Fertility: an examination
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    Low-carbon energy projects for development in Sub-Saharan Africa Unveiling the potential, addressing the barriers

    World Bank, 2008
    Sub-Saharan Africa has an opportunity of choosing a cleaner development pathway via low-carbon energy alternatives that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School-based Student Health Survey

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009
    This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five African countries.
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    The logic of political decay and reconstruction in Uganda and Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Civil war, authoritarian rule, falling incomes, poverty, widespread corruption has made life for many Africans difficult today than it was at the end of colonial rule. This long-term crisis generated a sequence of theoretical discussions and policy responses. But the African crisis is ongoing.
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    Global war on terror represses civil society in Western and developing nations

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    In Uzbekistan, many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have closed. In Kazakhstan, the President has warned NGOs not to interfere in local affairs. In Nigeria, members of ethnic-based organisations are in jail. In Uganda, peace initiatives have been stifled. These events are all part of a wider backlash against civil society organisations, says new research.
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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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    What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment has failed because the policies have sidestepped the developmental needs of Africa.
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    Sustainable livelihoods, mobility and access needs

    Eldis Document Store, 2003
    How does transport support or inhibit the livelihoods of the poor? How can the sustainable livelihoods approach help identify the mobility and accessibility needs of the poor? This paper outlines the objectives of a study undertaken for DFID by TRL Limited, UK.

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