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    When social movements bypass the poor: asbestos pollution, international litigation and Griqua cultural identity

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper examines citizen mobilisation and activism in relation to asbestos disease and litigation in South Africa. In order to do so the paper follows the litigation case of Cape plc, a British company mining asbestos in South Africa, which lead the company to pay compensation to 7,500 former employees with asbestos-related diseases.
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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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    Do donors recognise the impact of HIV/AIDS on local non-governmental organisations?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Donors and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are increasingly prioritising support for HIV/AIDS in their programmes. However, they are largely ignoring a crucial consequence of the pandemic – the debilitating impact of HIV/AIDS on the ability of their local partners to carry on working.
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    Growth and opportunity (African civil society perspectives on growth and opportunity)

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This paper captures perspectives of development activists in civil society and social movements in Africa.
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    Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.
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    Nepad and civil society participation in the APRM

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005
    This paper provides general information on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in order to facilitate active participation in its processes.
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    Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women

    Millennium Project, 2005
    This report examines the work of the Millennium Project Task Force dealing with meeting Goal 3, increased empowerment of women.
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    Norway and the NGO channel: the case of South Africa

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004
    This paper examines the role of Norwegian NGOs in relation to South Africa.
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    Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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    NEPAD, the city, and the immigrant

    University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004
    South Africa has experienced a large influx of migrants from other African countries since the early 1990s, reflecting the lifting of apartheid-era boycotts against travel to South Africa; increasing political and social turmoil, for example in Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria; and a growing economic crisis.

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