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    Documenting good practices at partner level

    HelpAge International, 2011
    During the period 2006 – 2010, a regional HIV and AIDS advocacy programme was implemented in the sub Saharan African countries. In this respect, HelpAge and its partners undertook a number of activities under the thematic areas of HIV prevention to address the impact of AIDS on older people.
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    Weathering the storm: participatory risk assessment for informal settlements

    PreventionWeb, 2008
    Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range of municipal and development professionals and practitioners. It is also relevant to professionals involved in housing, social development, health, adult education, CBOs and NGOs.
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    Changing international aid dynamics

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    The ‘traditional’ aid environment is no longer solely driven by OECD donor countries. The emergence – and increasing influence – of developing nations as significant funders of ODA (Official Development Assistance) has introduced a new element to the donor-recipient relationship.
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    Western policies are responsible for Africa’s failure to develop

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Development policies are based on a flawed analysis of the history of development by the West. African development strategies need to solve local problems with the existing material and intellectual resources of local people. Africa does not need big social goals but small policies that make everyday life more predictable.Two ideas are central to the concept of development.
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    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
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    Managing aid exit and transformation: lessons from Botswana, Eritrea, India, Malawi and South Africa: synthesis report

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2008
    In 2005 four donor countries – Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden – took the initiative for a joint donor evaluation of the management of country level exit processes in development cooperation.
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    How Africa can get more from relations with China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    China’s emergence is having a big impact on Africa. But the relationship presents challenges as well as opportunities. How can Africa influence Chinese policy in order to benefit more from its relations with this important partner?
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    Local ownership underpins success of security sector reforms

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Security sector reforms in any country must be designed, managed and implemented by local people if they are to succeed. But while it is fashionable for policy statements to declare the importance of ‘local ownership’, the concept has proven difficult to apply, with donor governments guilty of frequent breaches.
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    Lenders, not borrowers, are responsible for ‘illegitimate debt’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Debt ‘relief’ focuses on the borrower – debt is cancelled if a country is too poor to repay. Now the emphasis is shifting to the lender – debt should be cancelled if creditors should never have lent money in the first place. Such ‘illegitimate debt’ includes loans to dictators and for bad projects.
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    Making government budgets more accessible and equitable

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Involvement in the budget process in poor countries has traditionally been limited to a select group of political actors. But this has changed over the last decade with legislators, civil society groups and the media playing a more active role. What impact is broader engagement having?

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