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  Transport, the missing link?: id21 insights, issue 63

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  What do poor rural farmers do when the rainy season cuts off their access to markets? What do women in labour do when the nearest health clinic is 30 kilometres away and transport is virtually non-existent? How can girls attend school if the journey isn’t safe?
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  Traditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation

  Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010

  How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities? A number of them, including Sonke Gender Justice network, the Ubuntu Institute, CARE International and Zambian Women for Change (WFC) are working with traditional leaders as a gateway to reach the people in communities they are targeting.
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  An epidemiological study of major camel diseases in the Borana lowland, Southern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2010

  This report describes the seasonal occurrences of major camel diseases and investigates constraints and potentials of camel production in Borana region in Southern Ethiopia. The study indicates that camel husbandry is the main source of income for millions of pastoralists in the region.
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  Impacts of improved seeds and agrochemicals on food security and environment in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia: implications for the application of an African green revolution

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2010

  This study seeks to examine the impacts of improved seeds and agrochemicals on environment and food security in two districts in Ethiopia. The study takes into consideration chemical fertiliser, improved seeds, pesticides and irrigation technologies.
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  Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change: World Bank (EACC)

  On August 3, 2010 the World Bank released the Synthesis Report on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Study (EACC).
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  Development without freedom: how aid underwrites repression in Ethiopia

  Human Rights Watch, 2010

  Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and is also one of the world's largest recipients of foreign development aid. Foreign donors insist that their support underwrites agricultural growth, food security, and other non-political programmes.
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  Coverage and Effects of Child Marriage Prevention Activities in Amhara Region, Ethiopia Findings from a 2007 Study

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2009

  Child marriage in Ethiopia poses challenges to women’s reproductive health, education and status, as well as national development. This is a report of the findings from a 2007 Early Marriage Evaluation Study (EMES), a household survey of female adolescents, male youth and caretakers in Amhara Region,Ethiopia.
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  The Status of Gender Based Violence and Related Services in Four Woredas (Woredas surrounding Bahir Dar town, Burayu woreda, Bako woreda and Gulele Sub-city of Addis Ababa)

  CARE Ethiopia, 2008

  Gender based violence continues to be a significant and serious human rights and public health issue in Ethiopia.
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  Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

  Overseas Development Institute, 2010

  How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection (SP) and livelihoods (LH) approaches can play an important role in terms of climate adaptive capacity.
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  Comprehensive Responses to Gender Based Violence in Low-Resource Settings: Lessons Learned from Implementation

  Population Council, Zambia, 2010

  Over the past decade, many African countries have begun to recognise the importance of preventing gender based violence and responding to the needs of survivors. But due to the absence of strong, regionally-relevant evidence, national programs have tended to adopt strategies that have worked in Europe and North America.

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