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    Studies of the waterscape of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: water management in hill furrow irrigation

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2010
    The practices and technology related to irrigation in Tanzania are relevant to debates about indigenous intensive agricultural systems, concerning their sustainability and prospects for development. This study analyses water system of the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania, focusing on its material, institutional, and ideational aspects.
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    Women as key players in climate adaptation

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Gender often dictates who gains and who loses in environmental disasters: where women lack basic rights, more will die from natural disasters than men; where they enjoy equal rights, the death rate is the same.
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    Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development: id21 insights, issue 35

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2000
    Why do men not feature more in gender and development policy? The shift in emphasis from Women in Development (WID) to Gender and Development (GAD), from enumerating and redressing women’s disadvantages to analysing the social relationships between men and women, has not led to a recognition within policy of the need to understand the position of women and men.
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    Time use studies and unpaid care work

    Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
    This compilation of writing focuses on unpaid care work, the majority of which is performed by women. Although this work has significant implications for the wellbeing of individuals, households and communities, it has been widely neglected by economists and development actors.
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    Retaining legitimacy in fragile states: id21 insights, issue 66

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Globalisation, liberalisation, and the withdrawal of external support from Cold War alliances have placed enormous strains on some developing countries – best described as ‘fragile states’. These are states with high levels of poverty and inequality and low levels of state capacity. They are particularly vulnerable to
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    New directions for water governance: id21 insights, issue 67

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Water governance is a significant feature of international development policymaking. There is an increasing consensus on the need for improved water governance to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This edition of id21 insights presents research that moves beyond the principles of good governance to improve our understanding of how governance works in practice.  
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    Developing a social assistance strategy for the SADC region based on the success of Brazil’s Bolsa Familia programme

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
    Given the recent interest in South Africa for developing a basic income grant, it is useful to study successful examples of social grant implementation to ascertain the challenges and opportunities associated with such a system.
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    Taxation, resource mobilisation and state performance

    Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2010
    The process of tax collection is one of the most powerful lenses in political economy to assess the distribution of power in a polity. Indeed, there is a long history of thinking in political economy and history that links the process of state-building with the capacity of rulers to collect taxes.
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    Recognising Rights, Promoting Progress: The global impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010
    This report sets out some examples of the impact CEDAW has had around the world, focusing on case studies where CEDAW’s ratification and implementation has led to concrete changes in the opportunities afforded to women and girls. The case studies are grouped into four main areas: • Ending violence and trafficking in women and girls
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    Land investments or land grab?: a critical view from Tanzania and Mozambique

    Development Fund, Norway, 2010
    This report discusses the potential benefits of, and the current challenges for, agricultural land investment in Tanzania and Mozambique. The paper finds that there is little, if any, development potential in these investments.

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