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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods in Zambia

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    Mobile phones and development: id21 insights, issue 69

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    ‘Explosive’ is the only way to describe mobile phone growth.  Half the world’s 6.5 billion people now use a mobile (up from two billion just two years ago). There are more than twice as many mobile owners in developing countries as in industrialised countries. Subscriber growth rates in developing countries are
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    Dealing with HIV and AIDS: id21 insights, issue 64

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Twenty-five years of knowingly living with HIV, the global community is still falling behind the virus in its alarming, complex and often hidden progress. Despite many diverse and creative successes in committed peoples’ responses and many lessons drawn along the way, few have been widely adopted. What can we learn from this diversity of response?
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    Developing a social assistance strategy for the SADC region based on the success of Brazil’s Bolsa Familia programme

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
    Given the recent interest in South Africa for developing a basic income grant, it is useful to study successful examples of social grant implementation to ascertain the challenges and opportunities associated with such a system.
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    Odessa Centre

    The Odessa Centre is a consultancy working with  researchers and practitioners in the fields of pastoralism, rangeland ecology and livestock development in semi-arid areas.
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    A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

    HelpAge International, 2009
    The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension.
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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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    One out of ten: social cash transfer plots in Malawi and Zambia

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    An explicit objective of the current social cash transfer (SCT) pilots in Malawi and Zambia is to learn lessons.  Between them, these schemes, which are now operational in over ten districts, have unquestionablyprovided a wealth of valuable information on how to implement cash transfer interventions in Southern
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    'We are all poor here’: economic difference, social divisiveness, and targeting cash transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    University of Sussex, UK, 2008
    Although most social transfer schemes tend to confront targeting difficulties, this poses a particular challenge in poor Sub-Saharan African countries where very little distinguishes the economic conditions of the bottom 50-60 percent of the population, more so in rural areas. While this has been the experience for several programmes, the evidence is as yet of an anecdotal nature.
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    Urban families under pressure: conceptual and methodological issues in the study of poverty, HIV/AIDS and livelihood strategies

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2005
    What have been the impacts of short-term shocks and long duration stresses on the well-being of urban households in sub-Saharan Africa? What factors mediate the impacts of such stresses? This background paper sets the context for research to be undertaken in low-income settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Lusaka and Ndolo, Zambia.
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    Changing landscapes and the outliers: macro and micro factors influencing livelihood Trends in Zambia over the last thirty years

    CARE International, 2003
    What long-term trends underpinned the recent crisis in Zambia? How have rural Zambian households responded to it and to other macro level economic, political and structural changes?

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