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  Can leprosy be eliminated by a single global campaign?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target to eliminate leprosy by the year 2000. The disease, which still caries a stigma, damages the skin and nerve endings and leads to ulcers and disability. A major World Health Organisation campaign has provided antibiotics to treat the disease in a number of countries. However a number of new cases have appeared in previously low priority countries.
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  Self reliance: the key to success for Mozambican refugees in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Many refugees fled Mozambique’s civil war during the 1980s and settled in neighbouring South Africa. The then-Apartheid government in South Africa refused to recognise the settlers as refugees which meant international organisations were unable to offer support. What lessons can be learnt from this experience, where aid agencies and the regional government were unable to provide assistance?
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  Making waves: unique challenges for Marine Protected Areas

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Protecting marine and coastal areas involves many similar issues to terrestrial protected areas, including balancing conservation and development needs and managing tradeoffs between multiple users. However, they also present unique challenges: they often cross international boundaries and the high mobility or migration of many marine species makes protection beyond boundaries difficult.
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  Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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  Making cash count: lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effectiveness, accuracy of targeting, delivery modalities, institutionalisation and potential for scaling up.
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  The Global Fund: managing great expectations

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The Global Fund was set up in 2002 to provide funds for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.  How successful has it been so far at attracting, managing and distributing additional resources?
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  Filling the gaps: introducing substitute health workers in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Massive shortages in trained health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa have led to an examination of substitute health workers as an immediate response to the workforce crisis.For many countries these substitute health workers (SHWs) are not new. They already play various minor roles in health services, especially in rural and deprived areas.
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  Scaling up youth HIV/AIDS prevention: the experience of Pathfinder International and the Foundation for Community Development in Inhambane Province, Mozambique

  Pathfinder International, 2004

  This paper documents the Pathfinder/FDC project in Inhambane, Mozambique, which focused on increasing the adoption of safer sexual decision making strategies among youth through increased demand and access to information and services and to further develop the capacity of NGOs, youth associations and communities to undertake STI/HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.The project took a peer education appr
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  Working with local institutions to support sustainable livelihoods

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This paper looks at the and policy implications of research conducted on local institution - rural household linkages.
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  Tackling illegal fishing practices in Africa’s protected waters

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is increasingly affecting the fisheries revenues of developing countries. The global cost of IUU fishing practices is estimated to be in excess of US$ 2.4 billion annually, about US$900 million for sub-Saharan Africa alone.

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