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Rural water supply in Zambia: local solutions are best
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Many rural Africans prefer to get water from traditionally dug wells and scoopholes, which they manage and maintain themselves. Policymakers, however, tend to regard such sources as a liability that ought to be replaced by community-wide schemes. Research in Zambia has found widespread grassroots demand for small-scale water supply and has developed models to help communities achieve them.DocumentAchieving sustainable water supply in rural Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Rural water supply projects have often proven unsustainable because they were just that – projects. Water supply has typically been considered a matter of engineering and suffered from the ‘design and build’ approach, which has failed to understand that supplying water is about much more than providing physical infrastructure.DocumentEducation in Africa: what makes a good SWAP?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Governments and funding agencies are increasingly recognising the need for more secondary and post-basic education as a result of the expansion of primary education. Developing a comprehensive nationally-owned sector-wide strategy would be a good start. Sector wide approaches (SWAPs) to education are being promoted in response to achieving Education for All by 2015.DocumentBringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2004In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.DocumentGrowth and opportunity (African civil society perspectives on growth and opportunity)
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004This paper captures perspectives of development activists in civil society and social movements in Africa.DocumentSouthern Africa's food and humanitarian crisis of 2001 - 04: causes and lessons
Agricultural Economics Society, UK, 2005This paper outlines the crisis and responses to Southern Africa's food and humanitarian crisis (2001-4), examining both immediate triggers and underlying factors.DocumentThe Doha development agenda: impacts on trade and poverty
Overseas Development Institute, 2004This series of briefing papers summarises of the principal issues of the WTO round, how the outcome might affect poverty, the progress of the negotiations, and the impact on four very different countries.Briefing papers are:“Trade liberalisation and poverty reduction” analyses potential Doha reforms and their poverty reduction effects“Principal issues in the Doha negotiations” presDocumentTeacher shocks and student learning: evidence from Zambia
World Bank Research, 2005This paper examines the impact of shocks to teachers - primarily their own illness and the illnesses of family members - on student learning in Mathematics and English.DocumentOrphans and vulnerable children in Zambia: 2004 situation analysis
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004This report is a second Situation Analysis of Zambia’s orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), since 1999. It documents progress since the last report, and emphasises the challenges that remain.DocumentImpact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction
Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increaPages