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    Missing in action: teacher and medical provider absence in developing countries

    Development Education Programme, World Bank, 2005
    Absenteeism of teachers and medical personnel is widely cited as a barrier to improvement of education and health outcomes in developing countries, especially in South Asia. But how severe is the problem of absent teachers–and in health care, absent medical personnel?
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    Review and appraisal mission report support to the establishment of the National Forest Authority and sustained development of Uganda National Forestry Authority with enhanced focus on northern Uganda

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This paper is the final report of a Norwegian mission that was commissioned to undertake a review of ending phase I of the Norwegian support to National Forestry Authority (NFA) in Uganda.The mission was also asked to evaluate the proposed programme for Phase II.
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    A handbook for network support agents and other community workers supporting HIV prevention, care support and treatment

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009
    Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public and private sectors. To strengthen the referral systems, people living with HIV have been trained as Network Support Agents (NSA) to work alongside health care workers in health facilities.
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    Small technology – big impact: practical options for development

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2009
    This publication, based on AED’s experience, shows examples of the practical application of small technology that have a big impact around the developing world. The authors argue that technology has dramatically changed the world whereby almost anyone can “move” at internet-speed.
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    Using mobile phones to fight HIV

    IRIN PlusNews, 2008
    As Uganda's HIV prevalence is rising again, policy makers are on the look for innovative ways of educating people about the virus. This article, published by PlusNews, reports on a pilot project in western Uganda aimed at communicating knowledge about the disease and encouraging mobile phone subscribers to volunteer for HIV testing.
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    A doctor in your pocket

    The Economist, 2009
    This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors demonstrate how new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest.
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    African Women and Domestic Violence

    Open Democracy, 2007
    The annual mobilisation of women around the world around the theme of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence (25 November - 10 December) represents a tremendous global effort to increase awareness of violence against women in all its forms.
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    Changing roles, shifting risks: livelihood impacts of disarmament in Karamoja, Uganda

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
    This report examines the role of disarmament policies in changes in livelihood systems of the population in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda.  The following topics are covered: Disarmament and human rights abuses Perceptions of disarmament as a goal in and of itself Impacts of disarmament on livelihoods Impacts of disarmament on se
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    Lessons from citizen activism in Uganda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    This paper highlights the role played by citizens who launched a campaign to prevent Uganda’s celebrated natural forest, the Mabira Central Forest Reserve, from being donated to a private sugar-growing and processing company. The paper presents tactics from this campaign as a lesson for approaching broader issues of governance.

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