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  Fighting malaria in Africa by linking with other disease initiatives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The global community is committed to cutting by half the number of deaths worldwide from malaria by 2010. In Africa, progress has been slow towards achieving the objectives set by the continent’s leaders in April 2000 to help reach this goal. Programmes to reduce malaria could be far more effective if they are linked to existing initiatives to prevent other diseases.
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  The pilot social cash transfer scheme: Kalomo District, Zambia

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2005

  This working paper, published by the UK Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), reviews and analyses the Kalomo Pilot Social Cash Transfer Scheme in Zambia. The scheme targeted households suffering critical levels of food poverty and with high dependency ratios (a high number of children or elderly members for each working-age adult in the household).
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  Orphanhood and child vulnerability: Malawi

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This Country Brief explores the links between orphanhood, fostering and child vulnerability.
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  Can water and sanitation services reach low-income communities? Lessons from Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  By 2025 there will be 700 million urban Africans. Sub-Saharan Africa not only has the world’s fastest rate of urban population growth, but its cities also have the highest proportion of unplanned – and often illegal – low-income settlements.
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  Protecting the environment across borders in southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Transfrontier conservation initiatives refer to environmental and wildlife management programmes that cross political boundaries and national borders. These occur in 117 areas of the world. The hope is that a combined approach to ecosystem management will produce positive environmental outcomes, increased revenue from ecotourism, and benefits for local communities.
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  Orphanhood and child vulnerability: Zambia

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This paper explores the effect of orphanhood and fostering on child vulnerability. It finds that the loss of only one parent has a smaller but still significant effect on school attendance and work.Orphanhood increases child vulnerability on two fronts: it makes it more likely that a child is denied schooling and more likely that a child is exposed work.
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  Increasing women’s role in food security in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Women play a key role in securing food throughout Africa, yet local customs and legal institutions often discriminate against women, denying them access to land, resources, education and public services. Healthcare is also an issue, particularly HIV/AIDS. Women have to care for themselves and for sick relatives, leaving less time to find or produce food.
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  Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa: a desk review

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This article, from Human Resources for Health, examines the experiences of using substitute health workers (SHW) in Africa. The review focuses mainly on physicians and reviews data from Tanzania, Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Ghana. Findings demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of using SHWs and higher rates of retention within countries and in rural communities.
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  Listening to African consumers about water sector reform

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Consumers are important stakeholders in water and sanitation but in Africa their voices are seldom heard. Permanent mechanisms are needed to ensure that Africa’s growing consumer movement is involved in helping policymakers determine prices, guarantee that all consumers, particularly marginalised and poor ones have access, and that services are transparent and sustainable.
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  Grim future for girls - primary school attendance in Sub-Saharan Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In the year 2000 the probability of an African child attending primary school was no higher than it had been in 1980. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the lowest primary enrolments of any major region in the developing world and the number of African children out of school is increasing at a faster rate than anywhere else.

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