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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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  Understanding citizens attitudes to democracy in Uganda

  Afrobarometer, 2010

  After nearly 30 years of autocratic rule and civil war, Uganda returned to elective national government in 1996. But while elections resumed, political parties were allowed to exist but legally prevented from directly fielding candidates for those elections.
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  Uganda: The Management of Elections

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2010

  Uganda is scheduled to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in early 2011. The last general elections held in 2006, the first under a multi-party system since 1980, were controversial and the results contested. A Supreme Court judgment on the presidential elections confirmed the existence of significant irregularities, but ultimately declined to declare that the result was invalid.
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  Foraging and Fighting: community perspectives on natural resources and conflict in southern Karamoja

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2010

  This paper seeks to examine the perspectives and experiences of communities in the southern Karamoja region of Uganda regarding natural resources and conflict. The study set out to better understand local views on this topic - in response to the assumption in policy circles - that resource scarcity or competition drives the conflict in this pastoral and agro-pastoral area.
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  Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

  Overseas Development Institute, 2010

  How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection (SP) and livelihoods (LH) approaches can play an important role in terms of climate adaptive capacity.
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  Annual report 2009: extending the reach of carbon markets to promote clean technologies in developing countries

  World Bank, 2009

  Carbon Finance-Assist is a corporate program of the World Bank designed to help developing countries and economies in transition to better participate in the fast growing carbon market. The World Bank Institute has been entrusted to manage this program that trains and educates people who will be crucial catalysts in their countries to promote the deployment of clean technologies.
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  UNIDO and renewable energy: greening the industrial agenda

  United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2010

  Renewable energy has become a viable option for enhancing access to energy at most places through on/off grid electrification, both in urban and rural areas, and promoting productive uses and industrial applications in energy intensive industrial sectors, especially in SMEs. Industry needs reliable and affordable energy to become productive and competitive.
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  Low-carbon energy projects for development in Sub-Saharan Africa Unveiling the potential, addressing the barriers

  World Bank, 2008

  Sub-Saharan Africa has an opportunity of choosing a cleaner development pathway via low-carbon energy alternatives that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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  Women’s engagement with political parties in contemporary Africa: reflections on Uganda’s experience

  Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2010

  This paper reviews and reflects on the experience of women’s political engagement in contemporary Uganda after the introduction of multiparty competitive elections in 2006.

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