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  Measuring ‘success’ in five African Anti-Corruption Commissions

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005

  This paper suggests that the widespread lack of ‘success’ of anti-corruption commissions (ACCs) is intimately connected to how they are funded by donors and governments and what donors and governments expect of them. The findings here are based on the insights gained from country visits to Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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  Moving beyond gender as usual

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2009

  In the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, it was estimated that about a third of all people infected worldwide were women. After just one decade this had risen to more than half and now today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61% of all people infected with HIV are female. This report examines national policies and then focuses on how three influential donors, the U.S.
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  Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School-based Student Health Survey

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five African countries.
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  Making politics work to reduce extreme forms of poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  There is a growing recognition of the importance of politics in shaping poverty reduction efforts in developing countries. But current development thinking and practice may be failing the poorest groups. What forms of politics lead to successful pro-poor policies?
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  Worker retention in human resources for health: catalysing and tracking change

  The Capacity Project, 2009

  There is increasingly widespread commitment to initiatives to attract and retain skilled workers, especially in rural areas. Retention continues to be a serious challenge in the human resources for health (HRH) crisis. This brief from the Capacity Project updates and documents a previously published resource paper and technical brief which focus on the area of worker retention.
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  Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA)

  The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA), launched in London in May 2008, is a multi-stakeholder alliance working to improve access and affordability of medicines for the one-third of the wo
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  Teacher training colleges prevent HIV infection in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  The burden of HIV and AIDS is undermining the capacity of educational systems to function in Africa. Teacher training colleges need to rise to the challenge. Education ministries can play a key role in ensuring HIV and AIDS policies are integrated into teacher training structures.
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  The Global Fund: managing great expectations

  The Lancet, 2004

  This paper published in the Lancet, tracks early implementation experiences of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four African countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Interim findings are based on interviews with 137 national-level respondents. The paper finds that: 
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  Pensions in Africa

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009

  In sub-Saharan Africa less than 10% of the older population has a contributory pension. This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries: Botswana, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia
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  Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.

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