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    Research ICT Africa Network

    The Research ICT Africa Network conducts research on ICT policy and regulation that facilitates evidence-based and informed policy making for improved access, use and application of ICT for social dev
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    UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2007

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
    This Humanitarian Action Report 2007 outlines UNICEF’s appeal for children and women in 33 emergencies around the world.
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    Down the drain: How aid for water sector reform could be better spent

    Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2007
    This report discusses the rise in donor support for water privatisation, with a particular emphasis on the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF). The report argues that donor support for privatisation is based on ideology and promoting corporate interests rather than being open to all the options.
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    A participatory pathbreaker? Experience with poverty reduction strategy papers from four South African countries

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2006
    Has the PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Process) paved the way for a new and more democratic participatory way of governance and policy-making, or was it just an ad hoc gimmick promoted by the donor community? Has it contributed to effective poverty reduction in the rural population?
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    Improving diabetes care in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The rise in type 2 diabetes is a worldwide epidemic. In sub-Saharan Africa, where diabetes competes with communicable diseases for scarce financial and staff resources, the effects are potentially disastrous. People in this region with type 1 diabetes have a very short life expectancy. What is needed to address the pending crisis?
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    Reinforcing unequal gender relations in Zambia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Mobile phones affect more than just communications. They can also reinforce society’s unequal power relations. A three-year study in Zambia looks at this, partly in terms of relationships between husbands and wives.
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    Regional employee engagement approaches to meet regional challenges: Africa

    International Business Leaders Forum, 2007
    This briefing demonstrates how community engagement by employees from international business can meet corporate, NGO and international development goals.
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    Does debt relief increase fiscal space in Zambia? The MDG implications

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    This country study from the UNDP's International Poverty Centre examines fiscal policy in Zambia, particularly how expenditure and taxation could be used to accelerate growth and reduce poverty.Drawing on results from a national study, the paper finds that:The Zambian government has little opportunity to choose its own fiscal policies, and is restricted by an array of external condition
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    Zambia's commitment to children's rights - the budget perspective

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004
    Through an analysis of budgetary allocations, this study analyses the extent to which the Government of Zambia has attempted to realise its formal commitments to child rights.
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    Field-based models of primary teacher training: case studies of student support systems from Sub-Saharan Africa

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    Field-based training is seen as a low-cost means to achieve meet the increased demand for primary teachers in Africa but, this paper warns, will prove ineffective without the serious investment and planning for local-level support and assessment for student teachers.

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