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  Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships: experiences from Africa

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  In line with the increasing emphasis on aid effectiveness, including promoting new partnerships for channeling aid, this paper reports on the extent to which gender equality is and should be part of this agenda.
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  Recruiting, retaining, and retraining secondary school teachers and principals in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005

  Across much of Sub-Saharan Africa, secondary education has been the weak link in students’ progression from primary education to either higher education or employment.
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  Composting: a win-win way to reduce urban waste?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Sustainable management of urban waste is a major challenge for municipal authorities. Much urban waste is biodegradable and recyclable. A large proportion consists of organic matter that can be recycled into compost for urban agriculture. Promising new composting techniques are available but planners must learn why previous projects have failed.
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  Teaching Resources: Bibliography on Sexuality

  Gender and Women's Studies Africa, 2003

  This bibliography seeks to encourage greater awareness of the links between thought and activism in African teaching and research on sexuality. It begins with a section on heterosexuality - focusing particularly on themes such as virginity, marriage, reproduction, and the relations between sexuality and gender.
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  The importance of human resources management in health care: a global context

  Human Resources for Health, 2006

  This paper, from Human Resources for Health, highlights the importance of human resources management (HRM) in improving overall patient health outcomes and delivery of health care services. The authors demonstrate how HRM is essential to any health care system and how it can improve health care models.
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  Killing kimberley?: conflict diamonds and paper tigers

  Partnership Africa Canada, 2006

  This report describes the current problems facing the Kimberley Process (KP), and the remedial action that is required if governments and industry are serious about ending conflict diamonds.
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  Valuing rural travellers’ time savings

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In the economic analysis of transport projects in developed countries, great importance is given to ‘value of time’ savings, that is, how much travel time is saved. In developing countries, however, the practice is much less common, especially for rural projects. This biases investment decisions in favour of urban and inter-urban projects, particularly those that do consider time savings.
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  Distributing insecticide-treated bednets during measles vaccination: a low-cost means of achieving high and equitable coverage

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, reports on a campaign in Ghana to achieve high and equitable coverage of insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) by integrating their distribution into a measles vaccination campaign.
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  Human capital, schooling and health returns

  Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 2003

  A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries.
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  Lessons on malaria treatment from Ghana’s education sector

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Poor, underserved and rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa have higher rates of illness and death from malaria than other areas. How can governments improve malaria control in these communities? A study in Nzema East district in the western region of Ghana assessed schools as a possible channel for better access to diagnosis and treatment.

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