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  Management of the bushmeat trade in Ghana

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Bushmeat is important for household food security and income generation in many parts of Africa. However, high levels of bushmeat extraction can cause the extinction of threatened species, making bushmeat an unsustainable natural resource. Is it possible to manage the bushmeat trade to provide food and income whilst protecting threatened species? 
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  Linking policies and budgets: implementing medium term expenditure frameworks in a PRSP context

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper focuses on the effectiveness of Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs) in offering a more practical approach to the implementation of the strategies laid out in the PRSPs (Povery Reduction Strategy Papers). It is based on nine country case studies which investigated the experience of implementing MTEFs in a PRSP context.
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  A place to live: women's inheritance rights in Africa

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2005

  This paper examines women's differential needs and challenges for obtaining housing. The report grew out of a consultative survey of women in 10 African countries, including interviews with individuals and members of government, and workshops with local experts.
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  Nine African budget transparency and participation case studies

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  The findings from this study explore budget transparency from the ordinary citizen's perspective. It sheds some light on information required to engage meaningfully with budgetary and other decisions involving public resources from the ordinary citizen's perspective.
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  Gender and ICTs for development: a global sourcebook

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2005

  This book is a collection of case studies about women and their communities in developing countries and how they have been influenced by ICTs. The book proposes that ICTs and policies to encourage their development can have profound implications for women and men in terms of employment, education, health, environmental sustainability and community development.
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  Can ICTs fight poverty in Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Over half of the population in Africa cannot read or write. Information needs are critical both for personal development and educational achievement. However, few practical activities supporting information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance such skills are in place in African schools.
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  Prioritising sexual and reproductive health in Ghana

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Many countries are making major changes to their health sectors.  But are populations' needs for sexual and reproductive health services being overlooked? In Ghana, curative health care policies are prioritised over longer term strategies to prevent ill health. There is a clear need for expert analysis and involvement to support effective resource allocation within Ghana's health sector.
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  Managing an economy in a HIPC-constrained environment

  Centre for Policy Analysis, Ghana, 2005

  Drawing on the particular example of Ghana, this paper examines the processes and issues of the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC).
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  Books, buildings, and learning outcomes: an impact evaluation of World Bank support to basic education in Ghana

  World Bank, 2004

  This World Bank report assesses the impact of the efforts over the past 15 years toward increasing the quantity and quality of basic education in Ghana.The main findings include:school quality has improved across the country: in poor and non-poor communities alike.
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  Achieving sustainable water supply in rural Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Rural water supply projects have often proven unsustainable because they were just that – projects. Water supply has typically been considered a matter of engineering and suffered from the ‘design and build’ approach, which has failed to understand that supplying water is about much more than providing physical infrastructure.

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