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  Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003

  With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Non-government organizations and commercialization in a post-apartheid South Africa: a comparative case study of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) and the Institute for Black Research (IBR)

  Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2004

  This study explores and describes the nature and form of the commercialization of South African NGOs post-Apartheid using the comparative case study method.
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  An enabling environment for civil society: what does it mean and how does law fit in?

  Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2003

  This paper explores the notion of an ‘enabling environment’ for civil society, a concept that is briefly reviewed.
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  Whose right it is anyway?: equality, culture and conflicts of rights in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  South Africa today provides a fertile environment for reflection on questions about rights and multiculturalism, because claims grounded in both are frequent, loud and often quite intractable. Those charged with the responsibility of policy formulation and legislation are thus faced with the difficulty of striking a balance between: liberalism: the rights of individuals.
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  Review and analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resource Management initiatives in the Southern African Region

  World Conservation Union Regional Office for Southern Africa, 2001

  The authors of this paper intend to help clarify understanding of trans-boundary natural resource management (TBNRM) in southern Africa.
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  The Makuleke Land Claim: power relations and Community-Based Natural Resource Management

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000

  The article investigates the power relations that emerged around a CBNRM programme and a land claim by the Makuleke community of the Northern Transvaal Province of South Africa. The land from which the Makuleke were forcibly removed in 1969 was incorporated into the Kruger National Park.
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  Decentralisations in practice in Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Different forms of decentralisation are occurring in parallel, and often in ways that cause confusion, ambiguity, high transaction costs and conflict, in southern Africa.These case studies in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how: political authorities with downward accountability to electorates co-exist and sometimes conflict with decentralised service delivery (through line m
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  Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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  Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs: a cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This paper examines the performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province at involving community participation and at targeting the poor and women.

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