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    E-Government in Africa: prospects, challenges and practices

    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2006
    In an increasingly globalised world, where information technology has become one of the key determinants of growth, many African countries are facing new challenges as a result of the emerging information age.
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    Planning for change: guidelines for national programmes on sustainable consumption and production

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2008
    In the context of climate change, it has become clear that our global community urgently needs to adopt more sustainable life-styles to both reduce the use of natural resources and CO2 emissions.
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    Food for thought: livestock feeding support during drought

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2007
    This Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative policy brief argues that a livelihoods-based drought response in pastoralist areas could aim to protect key livestock assets and support rapid rebuilding of herds after drought.
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    15 years after Black Hawk Down: Somalia's chance?

    ENOUGH, 2008
    Has the international community washed its hands of Somalia? There has been no effective foreign engagement since the humiliation of US troops in the early nineties, leaving the people to contend with conflict, bloody partition and humanitarian disaster since the last vestiges of national administration crumbled in 1991.
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    Delivering health services in fragile states and difficult environments: 13 key principles

    Health Unlimited, 2007
    This report by Health Unlimited draws out key policy recommendations and operational implications for stakeholders involved in delivering health services in fragile states and difficult environments.
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    GMO governance in Africa

    The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, The Open University, 2006
    This paper examines issues of legitimation and harmonisation of biosafety systems in GMO governance in Africa. It draws on case studies from emerging regulatory systems in Ethiopia and South Africa, which offer contrasting examples that evolved under different historical and socio-economic conditions.
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    Low prevalence of HIV infection, and knowledge, attitude and practice on HIV/AIDS among high school students in Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia

    Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, 2007
    This paper from the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development investigates the prevalence of HIV infection and to assess personal knowledge, attitude and practice related to HIV/AIDS in Gondar; northwest Ethiopia. A total of 565 students were included in the study. The report found:
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    COMESA customs union: an assessment of progress and challenges for Eastern and Southern Africa’s poor

    Trade and Development Studies Centre – Trust, Zimbabwe, 2007
    COMESA's goal is the establishment of a free trade area, a customs union, a common market and ultimately an economic union. COMESA is home to 10 of the poorest countries in the world - Angola, Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Zaire and Zambia. Therefore, this paper examines the impact of COMESA on the poor. Benefits of the COMESA Customs Union are:
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    Local ownership underpins success of security sector reforms

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Security sector reforms in any country must be designed, managed and implemented by local people if they are to succeed. But while it is fashionable for policy statements to declare the importance of ‘local ownership’, the concept has proven difficult to apply, with donor governments guilty of frequent breaches.
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    Zero tillage or reduced tillage: the key to intensification of the crop–livestock system in Ethiopia

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    This chapter is part of the book "Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the East African Highlands". It discusses the problems of the current crop–livestock system and suggests an alternative pathway for the crop–livestock system to enhance productivity and safeguard the environment in Ethiopia.

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