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  Accelerating reproductive and child health program development: the Navrongo initiative in Ghana

  Population Council, USA, 2005

  Successive health, reproductive health and development agendas have been adopted by African governments over the past decades. However many of these have been followed by widespread implementation failure. This paper highlights lessons learned from an approach to programme development in Ghana which uses research to accelerate policy implementation.
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  Migration of health professionals in six countries: a synthesis report

  Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organisation, 2004

  This report, published by the WHO Regional Office for Africa, examines migration of health professionals in six African countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe) during 1991-2000. It finds that the number of registered health professionals other than nurses increased in all six countries.
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  Innovative ways of making aid effective in Ghana: tied aid versus direct budgetary support

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper considers the government of Ghana and its development partners who have agreed on an aid package dubbed the multi-donor budgetary support (MDBS). This package was created to ensure continuous flow of aid to finance the government’s poverty related expenditures.The authors examine the MDBS, with special focus on how it overcomes the problems of tied aid and other project support.
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  Fighting malaria in urban Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Africa already has 40 cities with more than one million inhabitants. By the year 2025 over 800 million Africans will live in urban areas. Meeting the health needs of these growing cities is becoming increasingly urgent. Malaria is a major emerging problem that must be tackled.
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  Integrated Pest Management or pesticides: which is best for African farmers?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Pesticide use in Africa is the lowest in the world, accounting for only two percent of world sales. However, development agencies, governments and commodity chains continue to provide large amounts of free or subsidised pesticides, often giving them to untrained and illiterate farmers. This results in unsafe pesticide use and threats to human health.
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  Bringing gender to bureaucracies: experiences from African ministries of health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The integration of a gender focus into sector- wide approaches for development (SWAps) presents a number of challenges and opportunities. Case studies of health SWAps in four sub-Saharan African countries suggest that the approach has raised the profile of gender in ministries, but has not yet received the support or capacity to fully integrate gender equity into policy.
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  Time to close gender gaps in land and schooling

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In rural societies parents help the future welfare of their children by passing down land and providing education. They do not necessarily offer them to both sons and daughters equally. Improving the distribution of income and resources between men and women requires policies to improve girls’ access to education and expand women’s opportunities to earn income.
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  Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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  Land disputes in Ghana: can the state courts deal with them?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Land is important for poor people in rural and urban areas for the security it provides. In Ghana, conflicts over access and use of land are increasing. Customary rules in the country link land ownership to social group membership. Land disputes, however, can be settled either through the law offered by state courts or within the customary system.
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  Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.

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