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  Protecting the environment across borders in southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Transfrontier conservation initiatives refer to environmental and wildlife management programmes that cross political boundaries and national borders. These occur in 117 areas of the world. The hope is that a combined approach to ecosystem management will produce positive environmental outcomes, increased revenue from ecotourism, and benefits for local communities.
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  Managing natural resources to benefit poor communities in Mozambique

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Since 1975, Mozambique has been moving from centralised natural resources management to models where more power is held by communities. In rural areas, Community-Based Natural Resource Management is the strategy expected to meet the joint aims of conservation and poverty reduction. In theory, communities with land rights will use resources sustainably and increase benefits to their livelihoods.
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  Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa: a desk review

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This article, from Human Resources for Health, examines the experiences of using substitute health workers (SHW) in Africa. The review focuses mainly on physicians and reviews data from Tanzania, Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Ghana. Findings demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of using SHWs and higher rates of retention within countries and in rural communities.
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  Urbanisation by default: changing rural existences and livelihoods in southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The dual influences of conflict and globalisation have severely affected settlement patterns in urban and rural Angola and Mozambique. As a result, the incidence of urban poverty is on the increase. Patterns of movement in such situations challenge conventional understandings of what is meant by ‘urban’ and question the validity of current urban development strategies.
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  Get moving: better access to public transport

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Encouraging greater access to transport, including public transport, can transform the lives of disabled people. Improved mobility is crucial to alleviating poverty throughout the developing world as it allows people with disabilities to play an active role in society both economically and socially.
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  Education For All (EFA) - Fast Track Initiative (FTI) status report

  Education for All Fast Track Initiative, World Bank, 2004

  This report looks at the progress of the FTI.
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  Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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  Policy and programmatic measures taken to meet the needs of the elderly: Africa’s response to a budding challenge

  Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 2004

  This paper examines the policy and programmatic measures taken so far by African countries to meet the needs of the elderly since 1994.
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  How Northern donors promote corruption: tales from the new Mozambique

  The Corner House, UK, 2004

  This policy briefing explores the growth of corruption in Mozambique over the last three decades with a special emphasis, on the role that Northern donors have played in that process.The brief finds that increasing intervention by international financial institutions and bilateral aid donors, facilitated by tacit alliances between donors and a predatory faction of the Mozambican elite, has been
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  Putting access on the agenda: ensuring mobility for people with disabilities

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Whilst developed countries have made progress in making transport services more accessible for people with disabilities, developing countries have lagged behind. However, the human rights approach to disability – seeing every citizen as entitled to be included in social and economic opportunities – is slowly gaining acceptance.

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