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    Participatory Vulnerability Analysis: a step–by–step guide for field staff

    ActionAid International, 2004
    This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. This guide is specifically developed consistent with the PVA approach to: 
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    EMIS capacity and priority identification: a web-based country survey for Ministry of Education personnel in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2007
    This report presents the results of a survey to gauge the capacity levels of Anglophone African Education Ministries’ statistics offices. It presents information provided by statisticians, planners and computer specialists from the Ministries on:
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    Horizontal inequalities in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: issues and policies

    Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2007
    This paper analyses the nature and extent of prevailing Horizontal Inequalities (HIs). The research particularly focuses on what can be done to reduce actual and perceived HIs in three West African countries, Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The authors discuss a number of specific findings in each case and then present overall findings. Some of these include:
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    Changing aid delivery and the environment: can general budget support be used to meet environmental objectives?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    This paper examines how environmental objectives are pursued by donors in a context where aid delivery mechanisms are changing. It cites General Budget Support (GBS) as an example of an increasingly important aid instrument that emphasises domestic commitment to achieve better environmental outcomes.
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    Innovation for land rights in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Many people in Africa do not have the security of formal titles to land. Policymakers can learn from the various approaches that different countries have taken to improve land tenure security.
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    Asian foreign direct investment in Africa: towards a new era of cooperation among developing countries

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2007
    How might African countries attract a greater proportion of Asian foreign direct investment (FDI)? This book first looks for answers to this question through an examination of the role that FDI played in both the successful economic development strategies of East Asia, and in the Asian financial crisis.
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    Knowledge management working tool for agricultural extension practice: the case of Ghana

    Community of Practice, Knowledge Management for International Development, KM4DEV, 2006
    This paper proposes a circular knowledge management model for agricultural extension practice. The model incorporates tacit and explicit knowledge to inform the nature of extension services. It is based on empirical assessment of agricultural extension in Ghana.The author recommends agricultural extension experts adopt the circular knowledge management model.
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    The positives and negatives of children's independent migration: assessing the evidence and the debates

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    This paper looks broadly at the positives and negatives of children’s experiences of migration. It focuses on the dangers and pitfalls that independent child migrants report, along with the perceived benefits and opportunities.
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    Uganda’s DistrictNet: e-governance in action

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Developing country governments are under pressure to become more effective, efficient, and transparent. Using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve both procedures and relationships can transform public services. Rural areas in particular can benefit from better access to quality information.
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    Parliaments, politics and HIV/AIDS: A comparative study of five African countries

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2006
    This paper provides an assessment on the national parliaments of Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa use of their oversight function to inform and monitor national HIV and AIDS responses.

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