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  Seed aid for seed security: advice for practitioners

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2006

  Does seed aid needs to be improved? According to the authors of this publication series, seed-based agricultural recovery is more complex than commonly assumed. This series of practice briefs offers advice on how to sustain and strengthen seed systems during disaster response and recovery periods.
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  Of global concern: rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006

  The global challenges of hunger, poverty and disease have led to an increasing focus within global initiatives - policies and strategies - on conditions and developments in rural areas in the South. The aim of this paper is to analyse and understand the rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance that are unfolding across continents.
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  Can sustainable forestry contribute to development?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Sustainable forest management can, in theory, contribute to economic growth, protect the environment and benefit rural communities. However, is this ideal achievable?
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  Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.
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  Establishing a Feminist Culture: the Experience of the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN)

  Routledge, 1997

  How easy is it to run an organisation using feminist values? The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN), established in Harare in 1990, began on the principle that the organisation would be built on a shared vision of sisterhood, openness, and democracy.
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  Lobola. Its Implications for Women's Reproductive Rights in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Weaver Press, 2003

  Lobola, an amount paid by a prospective husband to the bride's family, is a tradition that is widely practiced across southern Africa. This study examines the impact of this social institution in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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  Perfect Crimes: Sexual Harassment at the Workplace in Zimbabwe

  Weaver Press, 2005

  For almost a decade, women in Zimbabwe have worked to gain rights in the workplace and to tackle, in particular, the issue of sexual harassment. This report charts the processes involved and the methodologies used in this struggle.
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  2004 ZIM: Comprehensive Review of Gender Issues in the Education Sector

  2004

  In Zimbabwe, key indicators on enrolment, access to, and completion in education show stagnation in educational development between 1990 and 2001. Within this, serious disparities and inequalities are revealed with gender being a key contributory factor.
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  Managing HIV/AIDS in the Workplace: Examples of Nine Non-Governmental Organisations in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

  Oxfam, 2004

  Southern Africa is the epicentre of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the region have to devote more and more time and resources to ensure that staff remain healthy, safe, motivated and productive. This study examines the range of impacts of HIV/AIDS on nine Oxfam NGO partners operating in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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  Life Skills, Sexual Maturation and Sanitation: What's (not) Happening in our Schools? An Explanatory Study from Zimbabwe

  Women's Law Centre, University of Zimbabwe, 2004

  Education is a key part of development for both men and women and also for the emancipation of women. Yet in Zimbabwe, although girls start at near parity with boys in terms of entry into primary school, they suffer much higher rates of attrition. Boys also drop out of school and do not attain the maximum levels of education.

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