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Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learned from selected case studies
European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2004This synthesis document brings together the findings of African forest scientists operating under the umbrella of the Forestry Research Network of Sub-Saharan Africa who compiled case studies of land rehabilitation from all major ecological regions in Western- Eastern and Southern Africa.DocumentTreating diabetes in Ghana: is there a role for traditional medicine?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Diabetes is a major cause of death and disability among adults in Ghana. Factors blamed include high medical costs, lack of drugs, and poorly financed diabetes services, as well as the inappropriate use of traditional medicine, in particular the practice of “healer shopping”.DocumentTackling poverty-migration linkages: evidence from Ghana and Egypt
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2005This paper presents a quantitative analysis exploring whether the very poorest in a community are unlikely to migrate due to the high transaction costs associated with migration.DocumentLifting the lid on foreign investment contracts: the real deal for sustainable development
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005This Briefing Paper focuses on deals between foreign investors and governments – foreign investment contracts. It argues that the terms of these deals have major implications for whether investment projects bring real benefits for the people and environments of the countries where they take place, or whether instead they undermine sustainable development.DocumentGetting Ghanaian women to ride bicycles
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Rural women and children in Africa carry heavy loads many times a day and have little money to pay fares on buses or taxis.DocumentStreet trading to reduce poverty
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Millions of hawkers and vendors earn their living in the streets of developing countries. The mechanisms by which they access public spaces and their relations with municipal authorities remain poorly understood. Policies are needed to maximise the economic, social and environmental potential of public space to support their efforts.DocumentUrban governance and access to basic services
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006In many developing country cities poor people suffer from insecure and over-crowded housing as well as inadequate access to water and sanitation. Municipal governments play a primary role these areas, but often fail to provide basic services. As a consequence, poor people have explored informal ways of gaining access to water, land and shelter.DocumentDo remittances reduce poverty?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006International remittances to developing countries will total around US$167 billion in 2005, more than twice official aid flows. Despite the ever-increasing size of international remittances, little attention has been paid to their effect on poverty and income distribution in developing countries and many policy questions remain unanswered.DocumentAfrica must face the challenge of urban malaria
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006As more Africans move from rural areas to the cities the risk of urban malaria increases. City health services need to focus on poor people who are most at risk from the disease. Malaria programmes should operate on a district by district basis as levels of malaria can vary dramatically throughout the city.DocumentAccelerating reproductive and child health program development: the Navrongo initiative in Ghana
Population Council, USA, 2005The Navrongo initiative is a reproductive and child health programme which uses research to accelerate policy implementation.Pages