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    An assessment of mental health policy in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia

    Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
    Approximately half of the countries in the African Region had a mental health policy by 2005, but little is known about quality of mental health policies in Africa and globally. This paper reports the results of an assessment of the mental health policies of Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia.
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    Lessons from case studies of integrating mental health into primary health care in South Africa and Uganda

    International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2011
    While decentralised and integrated primary mental healthcare forms the core of mental health policies in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), implementation remains a challenge.
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    Ugandan health workers speak: the rewards and the realities

    Voluntary Service Overseas, 2012
    This report is based on the accounts of 90 Ugandan health workers at the front line – qualified nurses and midwives, nursing assistants, clinical officers and doctors – and 15 of their facility and district managers, all holding a nursing or medical qualification, some of whom also worked as clinical officers or doctors in the facilities they managed.
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    Exploring new health markets: experiences from informal providers of transport for maternal health services in Eastern Uganda

    BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2011
    Although a number of intermediate transport initiatives have been used in some developing countries, available evidence reveals a dearth of local knowledge on the effect of these rural informal transport mechanisms on access to maternal health care services, the cost of implementing such schemes and their scalability.
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    Tracking and monitoring the health workforce: a new human resources information system (HRIS) in Uganda

    Human Resources for Health, 2011
    Health workforce planning is important in ensuring that the recruitment, training and deployment of health workers are conducted in the most efficient way possible. However, in many developing countries, human resources for health data are limited, inconsistent, out-dated, or unavailable.
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    Activity Choices of Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees: Post-War Northern Uganda

    Households in Conflict Network, 2011
    This paper studies the effect of living in an internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war northern Uganda. As the decision to relocate from a camp is voluntary, camp residents may be different from returnees. The authors find a strong effect of camp residence on activity choices.
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    IST-Africa Initiative

    The IST-Africa Initiative is an active and growing partnership, founded by IIMC, Ireland in 2002.
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    Guide to ICT policy in IST-Africa partner countries

    IST-Africa Initiative, 2012
    This guide looks at the current status of National ICT policies in each of the current IST-Africa Initiative partner countries.  It identifies what has been achieved to date and provides insight into what implementation challenges remain.  Specifically, the report reflects analysis of existing National ICT plicies for: Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mozambique, N
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    Climate change: storm brewing for Uganda's booming tea industry

    Participatory Research with Farmers, International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), 2011
    Tens of thousands of Uganda’s tea producers – many of them Fairtrade certified – will need to take decisive action to protect their crop and their livelihoods if the latest climate change predictions come true.
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    ICTs for education-Impact and lessons learned from IICD-supported activities

    International Institute for Communication and Development, 2007
    This impact study is part of a series of publications on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in various sectors in developing countries.

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