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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods in Zambia

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    Business and poverty: integrating the sustainable livelihoods approach with corporate citizenship

    Eldis Document Store, 2001
    How can relationships between business and society be better managed to the benefit of both?What does Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis (SLA) add to corporate citizenship approaches to facilitate social benefits from business activity?
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    Climate change in eastern and southern Africa: impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

    Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008
    In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that all of Africa is likely to warm during this century, with the drier subtropical regions warming more than the moist tropics. Annual rainfall is likely to decrease throughout most of the region, with the exception of eastern Africa, where annual rainfall is projected to increase.
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    REBA case study brief

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly being used to address hunger and vulnerability in Sub Saharan Africa – often as an alternative to food aid. Such interventions have been informed by different models of social protection.
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    The impact of social cash transfers on children affected by HIV and AIDS: evidence from Zambia, Malawi and South Africa

    Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme, 2007
    This paper analyses the degree to which social cash transfer schemes that do not explicitly target HIV and AIDS affected people reach HIV and AIDS affected households. By comparing different schemes in Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, the study identifies the main factors that determine both the share of HIV and AIDS affected households reached, and the impact achieved.
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    Regional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) in southern Africa.
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    Social protection for low capacity households in Zambia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This paper highlights the importance of social protection as a poverty alleviation strategy for rural households in Zambia. The paper presents a framework based on– protection, preven­tion, and promotion.
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    The impact of social cash transfers on children

    Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme, 2007
    This paper analyses the degree to which social cash transfer schemes that do not explicitly target HIV and AIDS affected persons or households reach HIV and AIDS affected households. By comparing different schemes in Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, the study identifies the main factors that determine both the share of HIV and AIDS affected households reached, and the impact achieved.
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    Sharing experiences of cash transfers in southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly popular with governments, donors, and non-governmental organisations as a way to support vulnerable groups. This approach to social protection takes many different forms. The agencies and organisations that implement such programmes can learn from each other’s experiences.
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    Evaluation study on appropriate models of livelihood strategies for social protection in Zambia

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
    Due to serious deterioration of socio-economic conditions in Zambia, the government is considering the adoption of a national Social Protection Strategy. This report examines Zambian and international livelihood approaches that target low capacity and incapacitated households. It provides the following:
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    The politics of what works in tackling chronic poverty

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    This policy brief looks at the role that politics plays in shaping efforts towards poverty reduction.

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