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  Violent response: protecting African schoolgirls from sexual abuse

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Why is sexual violence so prevalent in Africa’s schools? Why is predatory aggressive masculinity condoned? What are the links between abuse in schools, lack of information and poverty? How should schools tackle abuse and intimidation of female students?
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  The dualities of contemporary Zimbabwean politics: constitutionalism versus the law of power and the land, 1999-2002

  African Studies Quarterly, 2003

  This paper explores the dualities in the coexistence within Zimbabwean politics of constitutionalism and legality versus a complex combination of paralegal, supralegal, oppressive and brutal political action, especially as this pertains to elections and land. The analysis is set in the period 1999-2002.
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  Zimbabwe’s triple crisis: primitive accumulation, nation-state formation and democratization in the age of neo-liberal globalization

  African Studies Quarterly, 2003

  This paper analyses the ‘conjunctural’ aspects of the current Zimbabwean crisis. It utilises classical and ‘modernisation’ theoretical perspectives on primitive accumulation, nation-state formation and democratisation.
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  Behaving clean: innovative approaches to hygiene promotion in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Hygiene promotion is an important but notoriously difficult part of any water and sanitation programme.  Experience in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe show that understanding how people actually behave is the key to initiating change.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship.
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  Health, shocks and poverty persistence

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper, published by World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), reviews the evidence on the impact of droughts and other serious “shocks” (transitory events which worsen the economic situation of a household) on child and adult health, focusing particularly on Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.
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  Where has all the education gone in Africa?: employment outcomes among secondary school and university leavers

  Poverty and Social Policy Team, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, 2003

  This report presents the main findings of an international research project evaluating the further education and employment experiences of secondary school leavers and university graduates in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Using a standard tracer survey methodology, the study provides data for monitoring and evaluating the impact of educational reforms.
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  A comparative analysis of the financing of HIV/AIDS programmes in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  This comparative study assesses the readiness and ability of six African countries - Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe - to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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