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  Making the difference: how schools influence gender identity

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Research in Botswana and Ghana indicates that daily life in schools is affected strongly by gender. A joint project by researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK, the University of Botswana and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana found that institutional practices and traditions can lead to a highly gendered school environment rarely challenged by students or teachers.
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  Meeting greenhouse gas targets and supporting development: a win-win situation?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  In 1997, as part of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialised countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One method for achieving their targets is to invest in projects that reduce GHG emissions in other countries.
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  Applying a participatory approach to energy planning

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Although energy is a significant concern for poor rural communities, participatory approaches often fail to identify it as an issue. Energy is vital to nearly every development activity and central to improving livelihoods. Yet development practitioners often fail to ask relevant questions at the needs assessment stage of participatory development project cycles.
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  HIV sentinel survey report 2003 (Ghana)

  Ghana AIDS Commission, 2004

  This report, by the National AIDS/STI control programme of Ghana, outlines the findings of the HIV sentinel survey conducted in 2003.
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  Managing public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This ODI working paper is a survey of the practice of results-oriented – or performance-based – public expenditure management in low income developing countries.
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  The macroeconomic impact of remittances in Ghana

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004

  This paper presents Balance of Payments (BOP) estimates of private remittances for Ghana.
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  Too far to walk: maternal mortality in context

  Social Science and Medicine, 1994

  This paper, published in Social Science and Medicine, reviews the Prevention of Maternal Mortality Program, a collaboration between Columbia University's Center for Population and Family Health and multidisciplinary teams of researchers from Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The paper focuses on the factors that affect the interval between the onset of obstetric complication and its outcome.
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  Improving the efficiency of transport markets in sub-Saharan Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The provision of transport services in Africa is largely left to the market. In many instances however, the market has not been working effectively. Development funds for the transport sector are mainly used for developing infrastructure but there is a potential to save on costs by focusing on improving the efficiency of vehicles themselves.
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  Recognizing childhood illnesses and their traditional explanations: exploring options for care-seeking interventions in the context of the IMCI strategy in Ghana

  Medline, 2003

  The capacity of carers to recognise the symptoms of serious illness is only one of many reasons why sick children are not being taken to health facilities in poor countries.
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  Sara, a role model for girls as they face HIV and AIDS in Africa: a review of the sara communication initiative for its introduction to Ghana

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  The Sara Communication Initiative (SCI) is a complementary regional project designed to support and reinforce on-going and future program activities supported by UNICEF, its partners and any organisation with similar goals.

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