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  Into good hands: progress reports from the field (a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004)

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This booklet, a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004, documents research and interventions to improve skilled care at birth throughout the developing world.
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  PRSPs in Africa: parliaments and economic policy performance

  Parliamentary Centre, Canada, 2005

  Reporting on a review of four countries Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (Ghana, Niger, Tanzania and Malawi) this paper looks at the emerging strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of national PRSPs.
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  Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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  Women: still the key to food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This brief discusses its research findings emphasising that empowering women is the key to ensuring food and nutrition security in the developing world.
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  Integrating reproductive health: myth and ideology

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 1999

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, explores the gap between rhetoric on the integration of HIV and reproductive health services, and actual progress made. The paper compares the health systems of Ghana, Kenya and Zambia with that of South Africa to examine progress on integration since 1994.
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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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  Aid for self-help effort?: a sustainable alternative route to basic education in northern Ghana

  Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2004

  This paper analyses a NGO education program, School for Life (SFL) in Northern Ghana. The paper examines the extent to which the activities of the NGO are actually promoting self-help efforts in sustaining an aid initiated basic education programme.It specifically asks what happens when the programme phases out - is the initiative sustainable?
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  Gendered school experiences: the impact on retention and achievement in Botswana and Ghana

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This study explores how the school environment in junior secondary schools in Botswana and Ghana perpetuate gender differentiation in student’s educational retention and levels of achievement.The paper finds that all the schools in the study revealed a highly gendered school environment, which served to constrain the learning opportunities in particular of girls and to encourage gender segregat
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  Gendered school experiences: the impact on retention and achievement in Botswana and Ghana

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  What is the impact of the environment on gendered patterns of school retention and achievement? This study explores how the school environment in junior secondary schools in Botswana and Ghana perpetuates gender differentiation in students' educational retention and levels of achievement.
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  Be responsible! The international recruitment of health professionals

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Since the 1960s, the ‘brain drain’, or the mass migration of health professionals from low income to developed countries, has taken place with little action to monitor or control the flows from many of the countries involved. Improved policies cannot be effectively implemented without better knowledge of migration flows. Policies must be put in place at national and international levels.

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