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    Experiencing vulnerability in Southern Africa: the interaction of multiple stressors

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    This research brief aims to highlight the key purpose, results and arguments from a research study aimed at understanding the meaning of vulnerability in the development context in South Africa and Malawi. Specifically, the study aims to find out how parents are planning and acting to secure their children’s future.
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    Do cash transfers enable the very poor to save?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2008
    Experiences from around show that building poor people’s capacities to accumulate assets for the long term is central to poverty reduction. In this process, household savings play a particularly significant role. Contrary to what one might assume, evidence increasingly points to the fact that poor people are able to and do save.
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    Managing aid exit and transformation: lessons from Botswana, Eritrea, India, Malawi and South Africa: synthesis report

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2008
    In 2005 four donor countries – Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden – took the initiative for a joint donor evaluation of the management of country level exit processes in development cooperation.
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    Healthcare delivery outside the public sector

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    What role can non-state providers play in scaling up healthcare delivery to meet the Millennium Development Goals? A policy briefing paper for the UK Department for International Development addresses this question using case studies in Bangladesh, India, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa.
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    Development in Practice 8(3)

    Development in Practice, 2008
    The question of what motivates individuals to become engaged in working for the public good is obviously central to the whole range of activities included in the term ‘development’. Yet the spark that ignites such voluntary engagement often seems to be taken for granted.
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    Gender, Remmitances and Development: Preliminary Findings From Selected SADC Countries

    2007
    This report, from a UN-INSTRAW research programme on remittances and migration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, analyses migration strategies, motivations, patterns and flows for different groups of women and men, including asylum seekers and refugees, as well as economic migrants.
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    Non-state justice systems in southern Africa: how should governments respond

    Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2003
    This report investigates non-state justice systems in six southern African countries: South Africa, Malawi, Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia and Mozambique. The report argues that contrary to the generally held view, much of the non-state justice in these countries is undertaken by the state functionaries themselves.
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    REBA case study brief

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly being used to address hunger and vulnerability in Sub Saharan Africa – often as an alternative to food aid. Such interventions have been informed by different models of social protection.
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    National plans of action for orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa: where are the youngest children?

    Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2008
    Although it is recognised that the focus of support must be on all children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, including those living with sick parents or in extreme poverty, the youngest are often invisible to programme planners, despite their vulnerability.
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    In defence of Africa’s informal sector

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    For decades, development theorists and African leaders stigmatised informal employment as an unfortunate reality set to disappear as ‘modernisation’ spread. The police often harassed street traders, petty artisans and inhabitants of unauthorised settlements. By the 1990s attitudes were often more tolerant, but is South Africa returning to former prejudice?

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