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  Addressing chronic poverty and vulnerability through social assistance in Tanzania: assessing the options

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011

  Insecurity and vulnerability are widespread in Tanzania. Many people appear trapped in poverty, lacking the resources to participate in growth. Economic growth has not reduced income poverty as expected and upward mobility has become limited.
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  Growth without poverty reduction in Tanzania: reasons for the mismatch

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011

  This paper seeks to examine why economic growth in Tanzania in recent years has not led to poverty reduction in the country. It analyses data and findings from a range of literature and national accounting data.
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  Poverty reduction in a refugee-hosting economy: a natural experiment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011

  The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of migrants and their relatives. This paper, however, reviews the way hosting households in Tanzania traced between 1991 and 2004, when their region had been affected by massive refugee inflows.
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  Potential Impacts of Tree Plantation Projects Under the CDM: An African Case Study

  Timberwatch Coalition, 2011

  This new report expands on the preliminary Timberwatch report released in December 2009, and provides greater insight into the commercial and industrial activities of the Norwegian owned company Green Resources Ltd (GRL), and associated issues, in the Mufindi district of Iringa province in southern Tanzania.
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  Benefit Sharing to Make REDD+ Work for Communities and Forest Conservation in Tanzania: The Community Carbon Enterprise (CCE) Model

  REDD-net, 2011

  This case study shares some early experience and lessons from one of the pilot RE DD+ projects in Tanzania 'Making REDD+ work for communities and forest conservation in Tanzania'.
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  Policy misfits, climate change and cross-scale vulnerability in coastal Africa: how development projects undermine resilience

  Science Direct, 2010

  Coastal social ecological systems in eastern Africa are subject to a range of environmental, social and economic changes, and the impacts of climate change are likely to further exacerbate their vulnerabilities. This paper presents an analysis based on local perceptions of recent changes at four sites in coastal Tanzania and Mozambique.
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  Visions of life with climate change: community photostories from Namibia, Tanzania & Kenya

  ResourceAfrica UK, 2011

  This report is a compilation of the community photostories below. It outlines ResourceAfrica UK's aim of bridging the knowledge and information gap and highlights how photostories can be used as a climate change vulnerability assessment tool. They are innovative, inclusive and fun ways of detecting community vulnerabilities.
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  ‘Women as key players in climate adaptation’, Joto Afrika 6

  Arid Lands Information Network, 2011

  A person’s gender often dictates whether they gain or lose in environmental disasters: where women lack basic rights, more die from natural disasters than men; where they enjoy equal rights, the death rate is more equally matched.
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  Proceedings follow-up meeting climate change adaptation and policymaking

  Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands, 2008

  This report include findings during workshop held in Nairobi on capacities needed to better integrated climate change adaptation responses into agricultural, rural development and natural resources policy processes for climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa.Discussions include; Core functions for adapting to climate change; Regional linkages and initiatives; High level policy forum meeting; S
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  Energy, climate change and poverty alleviation - policy paper

  Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development, 2010

  The papers from three of GNESD’s Member centres examine different aspects of the complex links between climate change, energy and poverty, to help clarify the debate and to demonstrate that the issues, while complex, are nonetheless perfectly manageable.

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