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    Inequality of opportunity for income in five countries of Africa

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2008
    Apart from South Africa, which is still recovering from decades of apartheid rule, the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa is not generally considered to be a region marked by high inequality. Poor data availability has further hampered the study of African inequality.
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    Developing an evaluation tool for health research in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Governments and external agencies in developing countries are increasingly identifying ‘capacity building’ as a goal of health research. Management at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Ghana identified capacity building in health research as essential if the school was to develop into a regional centre of excellence. How was an evidence-based evaluation tool developed for KATH?
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    Encourage families in Ghana to install home latrines

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In Ghana, three-quarters of the population lack decent sanitation. Poor sanitation is the cause of many life-threatening diseases, including diarrhoea, and the lives of many children could be saved if latrines were installed in their homes. What factors affect whether families in Ghana have installed their own toilet?
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    Climate change and displacement

    Forced Migration Review, 2008
    In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges of this century.
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    The Traditional Authority Applied Research Network, University of Calgary (TAARN)

    TAARN is a network of those concerned with applying research on chiefs to various development issues.
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    Chieftaincy, sovereignty and legitimacy and development: a pilot newspaper survey of the role of chiefs in three aspects of development

    The Traditional Authority Applied Research Network, University of Calgary, 2004
    This paper evaluates the potential and the reality of traditional chiefs in contributing to development, based on a on a newspaper survey. It focuses on three major themes addressing the involvement of chiefs in development: Education, Political Succession and Economic Development.
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    Water supply projects succeed when villagers want and maintain them

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In villages in Peru, Bolivia and Ghana water supply systems are still working up to 12 years after construction. They succeed because villagers request them, manage them, and can get spare parts and technical help. However, some people still use unsafe water sources and the water systems do not pay for themselves.
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    Social responsibility agreements in Ghana’s forestry sector

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    In Ghana, legislation requires logging firms to commit a portion of their financial resources towards the provision of social amenities to local forest communities. Logging firms must perform this legal obligation by signing and implementing “Social Responsibility Agreements” (SRAs) with forest communities.
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    Are teachers facing a motivation crisis?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Achieving the education-related Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of basic education for all by 2015 will be a major challenge for national governments, especially as concern is growing that teachers are becoming increasingly demotivated. Is there a crisis in motivation among teachers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and if so, why? How can teachers be adequately motivated?
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    Making Africa’s power sector sustainable

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2007
    This study assesses the sustainability of power sector in Africa by examining the socio-economic and environmental impacts of power sector reforms in 14 countries in the region. It uses the results of the assessment to determine the extent to which reforms have made the power sector in the regions sustainable.

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