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  UNHCR’s age and gender mainstreaming pilot project 2004: synthesis report

  Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2005

  This report assesses the UNHCR age and gender mainstreaming pilot project launched in 2004. It provides a strategic overview of the pilot project experience, drawing out findings, good practice, lessons learnt and recommendations for the future.
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  UNHCR’s age and gender mainstreaming pilot project 2004: synthesis report

  Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2005

  Following three independent evaluations on refugee women and children and the role of community services, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched an age and gender mainstreaming pilot project in early 2004. To date, country assessments followed by capacity building and planning workshops have been conducted in fourteen countries.
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  The nexus between public resources management reforms and neo patrimonial politics

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This study analyses the relationship between public resource management reforms arising from the Zambian Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and Zambia’s political system. The author argues that as far as policy reforms are concerned, it would be misleading to view the government as one monlithic institution.
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  Politics and the PRS approach in Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This presentation reviews the political dimensions of the PRSP approach in the Southern Africa sub-region.
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  The same old wine in the same old bottle? Content, process and donor conditionalities of the PRSP

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This paper charts the progress in implementing Zambia's Poverty Reduction Strategy Process (PRSP) and questions the extent to which it has contributed to sustained poverty reduction in the country. The author finds that there is little evidence to suggest that the PRSP has contributed in this way.
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  Postpartum maternal morbidity requiring hospital admission in Lusaka, Zambia: a descriptive study

  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2005

  This article from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth reports on a study which examined health services data on maternal morbidity (ill-health due to complications) during the postpartum (post-birth) period in Lusaka, Zambia. The authors undertook a four-week study of postpartum hospital admissions. This was accompanied by a review of hospital registers from the previous six months.
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  Specific needs, specific policies: agriculture in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Seeds and fertilisers introduced during the green revolution had varying levels of success in increasing agricultural production. The greatest achievements were made in Asia; many parts of Africa did not experience the same growth. New approaches are needed to stimulate food production; these must be relevant to the needs of individual countries.
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  The design, process and achievements of Zambia's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper reviews progress made by the Zambian Government in implementing the country's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP). It argues that more could have been done to ensure the implementation of the PRSP if there were more funds.
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  Integrating reproductive health: myth and ideology

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 1999

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, explores the gap between rhetoric on the integration of HIV and reproductive health services, and actual progress made. The paper compares the health systems of Ghana, Kenya and Zambia with that of South Africa to examine progress on integration since 1994.
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  How can the real scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic be measured?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Since 1997, The Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have provided estimates for the number of people living with HIV in different countries every two years.  As new methods are developed for calculating existing and future trends in the disease, figures can be startlingly different.  How can accurate decisions be made on health spending if policy

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