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    Measuring ‘success’ in five African Anti-Corruption Commissions

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005
    This paper suggests that the widespread lack of ‘success’ of anti-corruption commissions (ACCs) is intimately connected to how they are funded by donors and governments and what donors and governments expect of them. The findings here are based on the insights gained from country visits to Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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    Moving beyond gender as usual

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    In the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, it was estimated that about a third of all people infected worldwide were women. After just one decade this had risen to more than half and now today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61% of all people infected with HIV are female. This report examines national policies and then focuses on how three influential donors, the U.S.
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    Financing for HIV, AIDS, TB and malaria in Uganda: An equity analysis

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009
    Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has been no assessment of their impact on equity in health sector financing in Uganda.
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    Uganda Reach the Aged Association (URAA)

    The Uganda Reach the Aged Association (URAA) is a national voluntary, not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation whose vision is “A dignified, self-fulfilled, poverty free ageing Uganda&rdquo
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    Modes of land access and welfare impacts in Uganda

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    This paper estimates the poverty reducing impact of land access in rural Uganda. The paper firstly states that land acquired through markets or otherwise may play an important role for rural household welfare.
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    Guidelines for occupational safety and health, including HIV in the health services sector

    US Agency for International Development, 2008
    These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors argue that the health sector is loaded with a wide variety of situations where health and safety issues are crucial.
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    Innovative Pro-Poor Healthcare Financing and Delivery Models

    Results for Development Institute, 2009
    In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care.
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    Best practices in environmental information management in Africa: the Uganda case study

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2009
    This report provides a snapshot of both the successes achieved and challenges faced in managing environmental data and information in Uganda, providing some relevant recommendations. The report firstly states that the data collection and information management infrastructure in the country is still very weak.
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    Strengthening the links between health systems research and policy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Translating the results of research on health systems into policies is rarely straightforward, particularly in low and middle-income countries. The research consortium Future Health Systems: Innovations for Equity has undertaken to plan and conduct focused health systems and policy research in some of the largest low-income countries in the world.
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    Life-long burden: chronic disease, health markets and poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    The number of people living with a chronic disease is increasing rapidly in low income countries. The associated financial burden from chronic disease is huge and is spiraling out of control for many households. Without significant investment in chronic disease prevention and treatment, many poor people will continue to be left to seek care from the unregulated private sector.

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