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    Infrastructure is the key to poverty reduction in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    African infrastructure development lags behind other regions. The lack of rural roads, telecommunications, electrification and water services is weakening poverty reduction efforts. Poor infrastructure directly affects poverty and requires urgent attention.
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    Has financial liberalisation brought economic growth for southern Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Most countries belonging to the Southern African Development Community have a history of repressive financial organisation, involving distorting financial markets by fixing interest rates below market levels and controlling the distribution of credit. Since the early 1990s these countries have gradually liberalised their financial systems.
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    HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods – communicating NGO good practice

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is deeply affecting rural livelihoods. The loss of adults of a working age means lower agricultural production, more households being headed by elderly people or children, and a breakdown in transmission of agricultural skills.
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    Management, co-management or no management? Major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries; case studies

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003
    This report contains ten case studies which serve as background for a synthesis report published in 2003 (see Further Information). They have been conducted in five medium sized lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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    A place to live: women's inheritance rights in Africa

    Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2005
    This paper examines women's differential needs and challenges for obtaining housing. The report grew out of a consultative survey of women in 10 African countries, including interviews with individuals and members of government, and workshops with local experts.
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    Children’s feedback committees in Zimbabwe: an experiment in humanitarian accountability

    Save the Children Fund, 2005
    This publication chronicles the attempt by Save the Children (UK) to set up an accountability project, related to the agency’s food aid intervention in Zimbabwe, that would address some of the issues of aid worker accountability.
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    Improving water resource governance in southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The main causes of disease and poor health in southern Africa are water related. Management of water resources is difficult however, because of low water availability and poor quality.
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    Refurbished computers for African schools: opportunity or threat?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Refurbishing used and second hand computers is one means among many for African schools to gain access to affordable information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, addressing Africa’s digital divide is not simply a matter of shipping unwanted computers from the developed world. Not every second-hand computer is suitable for re-use.
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    Community assessment of food security and the social situation in Zimbabwe: April 2005

    National NGO Food Security Network, 2005
    The Community Monitoring Programme provides community based information to inform programmes aimed at socio-economic development and food security in Zimbabwe. This situation assessment is the twentieth round of civil society and community based monitoring.
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    HIV/AIDS and the agricultural sector in eastern and southern Africa: anticipating the consequences

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The countries in eastern and southern Africa where HIV/AIDS prevalence exceeds 20 percent face huge challenges to cope with the disease. Policymakers need to predict the likely impacts now if policies are to be effective in time to minimise social and economic problems.

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