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  Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2003

  This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems.
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  Emergency scale-up of ART in resource-limited settings: technical and operational recommendations to achieve “3 by 5”

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This document is intended to help those implementing ART programs in resourcelimited settings accelerate their work, by identifying recommendations and priority actions that are required to deliver ART now.
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  Zambia's District participatory poverty assessment: summary report

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This summary report aims to uncover the poverty situation in nine selected districts in Zambia, with a view to laying the ground for future monitoring of the country's PRSP. It sheds light on perceptions and definitions of poverty, its causes, its multi-dimensional and seasonal nature as well as perceived poverty levels and trends.
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  Zambia: Non-governmental health care provision

  Harvard School of Public Health, 1995

  Zambia has experienced major economic difficulties for almost two decades, resulting in lowered incomes and a dilapidated social infrastructure. Despite initial improvement in health status immediately after independence, progress has been limited and slow, and many indicators appear to have worsened in recent years.
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  Why is southern Africa hungry?: the roots of southern Africa's food crisis

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This paper, based on Christian Aid's submission to the House of Commons International Select Committee on International Development, takes an in-depth look at the causes of southern Africa's crisis and looks to ‘real’ solutions beyond the continuation of the humanitarian relief effort.Issues addressed include:Chronic poverty - Food shortages are endemic among subsistence farmers
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  Conservation farming in Zambia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  Examines the effectiveness of the ‘conservation farming (CF) system’, a package of agronomic practices for smallholders introduced to Zambia in 1996 and advocated by a range of stakeholders from donors, government and private sector.The system involves:dry-season land preparation using minimum tillage methods retention of crop residue from the prior harvest (no burning)planting
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  HIV/AIDS and child labour in Zambia: a rapid assessment on the case of the Lusaka, Copperbelt and Eastern Provinces

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This rapid assessment examined correlations between the HIV/AIDS pandemic and child labour in Zambia, and subsequently on the welfare of children in terms of their health, education, etc.
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  The impact of the Global Gag Rule in Zambia

  Access denied: impacts of the global gag rule, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact that the Global Gag Rule has had on Zambia’s reproductive health situation. The Global Gag Rule prohibits US assistance to foreign NGOs that use funding from any other source to fund abortions in cases other than exceptional.The paper demonstrates that Zambia has a relatively liberal abortion law, but in practice access to abortion is heavily restricted.
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  Increasing the efficiency of livestock service delivery: the experience of the livestock sector in Zambia

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This briefing presents Zambia’s experience of the changes that have taken place and that are proposed in the development of the livestock sector. It offers a background to the relevant political and agricultural environment, along with a description of the livestock situation.
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  Levelling the international ICT playing field

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Developing countries have next to no say in the evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At its Genoa Summit in 2001, the G8’s Digital Opportunities Task (DOT) Force called for greater southern involvement in ICT decision- making. What are the prospects for bridging the digital divide? What principles should govern ICT relations between north and south?

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