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Legislation for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction
Tearfund, 2006Legislation is crucial for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction (DRR) into development. This report aims to support national and donor governments to develop and improve their DRR legislation.DocumentInternational AIDS assistance: 'new' money?
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2006Produced as a background paper to inform the conference, ‘Sustaining U.S.DocumentPoverty and inequality in middle-income countries: a neglected development issue
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006International attention to poverty reduction tends to focus on low income and least developed countries, where poverty is severe and widespread. However, many middle-income countries with large populations have such high levels of inequality that they also contain a significant proportion of the world’s poorest people.DocumentUnderstanding cross-sector partnerships for development
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Cross-sector partnerships between communities, corporations, governments, donors and civil society organisations are being promoted as means for sustainable development. They offer a new approach that challenges the traditional donor-recipient relationship. However, there is little solid research to indicate which partnership models have the greatest potential to eradicate poverty.DocumentTackling climate change and aid in Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Climate change is already affecting many developing countries. In Africa, over 70 percent of workers rely on small-scale farming dependent on direct rainfall. Even small changes to weather patterns can threaten food security and health. These impacts present a huge challenge to the coordination of aid efforts and the design of development policies.DocumentLinking aid assistance to poverty reduction in middle-income countries
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Six hundred million of the world’s poorest people, surviving on less than US$2 a day, live in middle-income countries (MICs). In 2002, the European Commission and European Union member states provided nearly a third of its development assistance to these countries. But how much of this aid is focused on poverty reduction?DocumentAid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.DocumentKeeping an eye on the campaign: monitoring media coverage of the 16 days of activism: no violence against women and children campaign
Media Monitoring Project, South Africa, 2005This report is an analysis of media coverage of the 2004 "16 days of Activism: No Violence Against Women" campaign in South Africa. The study also compares media coverage of gender-based violence and woman and child abuse over the last seven years. The authors also present MMP’s strategies for the campaign including their process for selecting companies as partners.DocumentThe politics of the MDGs and South Africa
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2005This report assesses South Africa’s progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goals.DocumentNegotiating NGO management practice
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005More aid is being promised to tackle poverty, especially in Africa. This is welcome and urgently needed. However, little attention has been paid to understanding whether current aid disbursement mechanisms are appropriate to building autonomous, strong local organisations and communities.Pages