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    Influence of rapid malaria diagnostic tests on treatment and health outcome in fever patients, Zanzibar - a crossover validation study

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2009
    Malaria continues to impact significantly on the lives of persons from regions where the disease is present. While major gains have been made in the development of anti-malarial medications for the treatment of malaria, the focus continues to be on methods for the accurate diagnosis and management of the condition.
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    Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Special Theme: health information systems

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
    Over the past few years, there is growing recognition of the need for more investments in health information systems. This special theme Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) notes that whereas such systems may seem expensive for developing countries, the costs are offset by the ensuing efficiencies.
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    How can pastoralists adapt to climate change?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to unpredictable environments for thousands of years. But poverty and a lack of basic services reduce their ability to cope with climate change. Whether pastoralists can adapt to, or take advantage of, climate change depends on how governments and donors support them to tackle the challenges.
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    A golden opportunity?: how Tanzania is failing to benefit from gold mining

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2008
    This report analyses how Tanzania is failing to use its considerable mineral resources to tackle poverty, and asks: where is Tanzania’s mineral wealth going?  Gold mining is the fastest growing sector of Tanzania’s economy. Minerals now account for nearly half the country’s exports and Tanzania is Africa’s third largest gold producer.
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    Transparent budget support

    InWEnt – Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH InWEnt - Capacity Building, 2009
    General Budget Support (GBS) has emerged as a 'progressive' mode of development country assistance. Such a process accentuates the importance of partnership and ownership – rather than proscriptive policy; facilitates institution building; and encourages donors to harmonise their assistance i.e. avoid a multitude of funders disparately assisting a plethora of projects.
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    Moving out of poverty in Tanzania: evidence from Kagera

    Journal of Development Studies, 2009
    In order to increase the impact of poverty reduction programmes, development practitioners are increasingly attempting to understand the reasons why particular communities and individuals are able to escape from poverty, while others are not. This kind of research is most insightful when it is focuses on pathways out of poverty under particularly trying circumstances.
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    Fiction, facts and future: Norad’s assistance to water supply and sanitation development in Tanzania and Kenya during the 70s, 80s and 90s

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2008
    The main purpose of this report is to provide an update on the status of the Norwegian investments made on the water supply and sanitation sector in Tanzania and Kenya during the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The report aims at drawing lessons from these programmes for the benefit of future programmes in water and sanitation world wide.
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    Reforming Wakfs in Kenya and Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    In East Africa, Islamic charitable trusts or Wakfs have a long history of helping to fund social projects. Wakf properties also provide affordable housing and premises for business and community activities. However, reforms will be necessary if Wakfs are to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.
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    How bioenergy projects could boost rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Some 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and over 2 billion rely on biomass for their cooking and heating needs. Across the developing world there are encouraging examples of small-scale initiatives developing and transforming bioenergy resources into cleaner and more convenient forms of energy. How can they be scaled up?
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    Disparities in citizens' perceptions of service delivery by local government authorities in Tanzania

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    This brief compares Tanzanian citizens' perceptions of service delivery by local government authorities between 2003 and 2006; summarising their perceptions of the overall quality of local services, as well as their satisfaction with services in the three key sectors of education, health and water.

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