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  HIV/AIDS, state capacity, and political conflict in Zimbabwe

  United States Institute of Peace, 2004

  This study from the United States Institute of Peace traces the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the economy and the apparatus of governance in Zimbabwe. It begins by briefly chronicling the influence that epidemic disease has had on the stability of human societies throughout history.
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  How do countries regulate the health sector? Evidence from Tanzania and Zimbabwe

  Health Policy and Planning, 2003

  This paper discusses the regulation of private activity in the health sectors of Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and assesses the appropriateness of existing regulatory networks. It reviews what is currently being regulated, the level at which regulation is occurring, and the specific instruments being used.
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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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  The curse of remoteness: why some African households fail to benefit from economic growth

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Economic growth in some African countries has improved the well-being of the poorest. However, in remote areas poverty remains entrenched. New research argues that Africa’s economic growth will not be translated into poverty reduction until the poor are given better access to markets and to basic infrastructure, such as roads.
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  Issues in essential obstetric care: report of a technical meeting of the Inter-Agency Group for Safe Motherhood

  Population Council, USA, 1996

  Essential Obstetric Care (EOC) is key to reducing the numbers of women who die as a result of childbirth. This document from the Population Council reports on a technical meeting of the Inter-Agency Group for Safe Motherhood, convened in May-June 1995.
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  Socio-economic dominance of ethnic and racial groups: the African experience

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This paper argues that socio-economic dominance based on ethnic and race factors is a long standing phenomena in Africa, which was instigated by colonial rule and perpetuated by elite interests in capital accumulation and political power during the post-colonial era.
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  Reducing maternal mortality: learning from Bolivia, China, Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Zimbabwe

  World Bank, 2003

  This study, produced by the World Bank, reviews case studies of maternal health programmes in Bolivia, China, Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica and Zimbabwe. Research was prompted by the question of whether current programme strategies could reduce maternal mortality more quickly than the decades required in the historically successful countries of Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
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  The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

  Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002

  This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.
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  Living with variable climate in southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Southern Africa has experienced severe food shortages over the past few years. These have been caused by several factors, including climate change and variability, problems with governance (including poor risk-management, and inadequate early warning systems) and wider structural issues (such as globalisation).
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  Education for all: teacher demand and supply in Africa

  Education International, 2003

  Achievement of the Education for All (EFA) goal of universal primary education by 2015 requires that the education system can attract, educate and retain sufficient numbers of well qualified teachers. This working paper examines the place of teachers in the primary education systems of Botswana, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania (Mainland), Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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