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  Human rights, formalisation and women’s land rights in southern and eastern Africa

  Institute of Women's Law, University of Oslo, 2005

  Land is a vital resource for rural livelihoods. Establishing and clarifying land rights through formalisation has become a key issue in development policies that aim to promote more productive uses of land. This report sets out a human rights-based approach (HRBA) for gender-equal and non-discriminatory land reform.
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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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  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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  African Economic Outlook 2003/2004

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The third edition of the African Economic Outlook assesses recent economic changes and likely evolutions and challenges on the continent.
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  The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture: a review of progress and challenges in the SADC region

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2003

  The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) bears important implications for developing countries, including those of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), whose agricultural sectors are critical to economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security.
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  Water for all: improving water resource governance in southern Africa

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  Assessing prospects for effective stakeholder participation in water resource management in southern Africa, this paper examines the experience of countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Tanzania, to draw some important lessons.At a theoretical level, the paper concludes that:improved governance, rather than stakeholder participation, should be t
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  Sustainable health care financing in Southern Africa

  World Bank, 1998

  This report summarises the findings of a five day conference on sustainable health care financing held in South Africa in 1996.
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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.
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  Has improved availability of health expenditure data contributed to evidence-based policy making? Country experiences with national health accounts

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003

  National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool designed to inform the health policy process. It aims to do so by providing policymakers with valuable information on the distribution of health funds within the system.

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