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    The CDM project potential in sub-Saharan Africa

    Wuppertal Institute, 2011
    This report assesses opportunities and challenges for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in sub-Saharan African countries, namely Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
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    Getting research into policy and practice

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
    The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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    Responding to displacement: id21 insights, issue 44

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Over the past 50 years, forced displacement has been a major obstacle to development and the fight against poverty. Despite the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and others to find ‘durable solutions’ for those who are forced to flee their homes, attitudes have, if anything, hardened towards refugees and asylum-seekers.
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    Dealing with HIV and AIDS: id21 insights, issue 64

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Twenty-five years of knowingly living with HIV, the global community is still falling behind the virus in its alarming, complex and often hidden progress. Despite many diverse and creative successes in committed peoples’ responses and many lessons drawn along the way, few have been widely adopted. What can we learn from this diversity of response?
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    Taxation, resource mobilisation and state performance

    Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2010
    The process of tax collection is one of the most powerful lenses in political economy to assess the distribution of power in a polity. Indeed, there is a long history of thinking in political economy and history that links the process of state-building with the capacity of rulers to collect taxes.
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    Recognising Rights, Promoting Progress: The global impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010
    This report sets out some examples of the impact CEDAW has had around the world, focusing on case studies where CEDAW’s ratification and implementation has led to concrete changes in the opportunities afforded to women and girls. The case studies are grouped into four main areas: • Ending violence and trafficking in women and girls
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    UNIDO and renewable energy: greening the industrial agenda

    United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2010
    Renewable energy has become a viable option for enhancing access to energy at most places through on/off grid electrification, both in urban and rural areas, and promoting productive uses and industrial applications in energy intensive industrial sectors, especially in SMEs. Industry needs reliable and affordable energy to become productive and competitive.
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    Low-carbon energy projects for development in Sub-Saharan Africa Unveiling the potential, addressing the barriers

    World Bank, 2008
    Sub-Saharan Africa has an opportunity of choosing a cleaner development pathway via low-carbon energy alternatives that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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    Sectoral support for primary education in Zambia and Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The shift by development agencies from project aid to sector and general budget support has had important implications for education in Zambia and Uganda.
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    Small technology – big impact: practical options for development

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2009
    This publication, based on AED’s experience, shows examples of the practical application of small technology that have a big impact around the developing world. The authors argue that technology has dramatically changed the world whereby almost anyone can “move” at internet-speed.

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