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    Climate risk and vulnerability: a handbook for southern Africa

    Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 2011
    This handbook explores how climate change and variability affect southern Africa. By analysing a number of case studies, the handbook presents how climate has changed in the region, the impact of climate change to key sectors and ways to deal with climate-related challenges.
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    Gender, ICTs and Agriculture

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2002
    This report examines the digital divide that exists between developing nations of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and the rest of the world. The report highlights the following issues:
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    SADC Gender Protocol 2011 Barometer

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2011
    The 2008 Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development was a groundbreaking agreement among the region’s leaders. This report is the third in a series produced by the Southern Gender Protocol Alliance – a network of national and regional NGOs in SADC countries campaigning for the implementation of the Protocol.
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    Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihoods, practices and policies

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2000
    The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification response in African rural areas making rural populations become more occupationally flexible, spatially mobile and increasingly dependent on non-agricultural income-generating activities.
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    Getting research into policy and practice

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
    The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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    Strengthening the research to policy and practice interface: exploring strategies used by research organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

    Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
    As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy.
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    Circumcision, information, and HIV prevention

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010
    Despite the substantial effort in the past decade by multi-national organizations, governments and non- governmental organization, HIV/AIDS continues to spread (USAID 2005). Recently, attention has been placed on male circumcision as a potential HIV prevention strategy.
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    Getting rights right - Is access to justice as important as access to health or education?: id21 insights, issue 43

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A core government function is to provide an effective system of justice for its citizens. Yet many governments fail to deliver on the basic services of protecting physical safety, securing personal property and settling disputes quickly and fairly. Recent studies have highlighted the fact that for poor people, access to justice
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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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    Gender and media progress study: Southern Africa

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2010
    This report monitors the relation between gender issues and media content in 14 Southern African countries, providing quantitative, sex-disaggregated data on media coverage and topics. In addition, it examines the underlying gender dynamics within the institutional structures of the media. The key findings of the paper are as follows:

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