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  Tracking resource and policy impact: incorporating millennium development goals and indicators and poverty reduction strategy paper monitoring across sectors

  Statistics Norway, 2004

  The main aim of this report is to show how a statistical system for tracking resource and policy impact could be designed and implemented.
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  Re-thinking gender mainstreaming in African NGOs and communities

  Oxfam, 2005

  This article looks at the reasons for resistance to gender mainstreaming initiatives among local NGOs and communities in Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda and the Gambia.
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  Evaluation of the 2002-2004 poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP)

  Civil Society for Poverty Reduction, Zambia, 2005

  Zambia's PRSP was introduced in 2002, based upon a three year time-frame. At the end of this period, civil society conducted independent rapid poverty monitoring and expenditure tracking exercises to establish whether the programme outcomes and impacts were consistent with PRSP aims and objectives.
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  Aid to African agriculture: working for poverty reduction

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Agriculture is central to meeting poverty reduction targets in Africa, but financial aid for agriculture is decreasing. Africa is the only continent where the Millennium Development Goals are unlikely to be met by 2015. It is vital that aid for agriculture is used more effectively.
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  Formative research on youth peer education program productivity and sustainability

  Family Health International, 2005

  This document develops tools to assess programmatic impact and cost effectiveness of youth peer education (YPE) - a widely used approach to reproductive health promotion and HIV prevention.The study had two objectives: to describe the programme dynamics, activities, costs, and outputs in two countries (Zambia and the Dominican Republic) in order to identify the core elements of successful YPE p
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  Stealing the future: corruption in the classroom

  Transparency International, 2005

  This report presents ten studies carried out in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia.
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  The southern Africa crisis: food insecurity, HIV/AIDS and the international response

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  In 2002, a crisis threatened southern Africa, with food insecurity occurring in a region seriously affected by HIV/AIDS. The humanitarian response focused on food aid but paid insufficient attention to public health. Health was seen as a long-term developmental issue that could not be addressed by short-term humanitarian action.
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  Peanut butter: a sticky problem for women farmers

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Peanut butter production is labour intensive and often associated with poor hygiene and contamination amongst retailers. These problems limit its appeal to formal markets and reduce the earning potential of the women who make it.
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  Sugar industries in least developed countries: profiting from ‘Everything but Arms’

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Guaranteed high prices are increasing sugar production in many of the world’s least developed countries. The possibility of duty and quota free access to European markets in 2009 is attracting foreign investment. Proactive governments are now needed to maximise the opportunities that the ‘Everything but Arms’ (EBA) initiative brings.
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  Hunger crisis: learning from southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  How is the HIV/AIDS pandemic affecting food security in Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique? How can humanitarian agencies speed up their response to hunger crisis in Africa? These are just two of many questions emerging from an independent evaluation of the 2002-2003 Disasters Emergency Committee Southern Africa Crisis Appeal.

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