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  Inter-regional multi-stakeholder dialogue on aid effectiveness

  Reality of Aid, 2008

  This paper presents an overview of the inter-regional consultation on aid effectiveness and the Paris Declaration (PD) held in Lusaka, Zambia. The workshop was convened to discuss progress on aid effectiveness in the region and recommendations for improving the PD – in preparation for the forthcoming high-level meeting in Ghana.
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  Food assistance programming in the context of HIV

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007

  This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes.
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  Misconceptions about attitudes toward AIDS in Africa

  Population Reference Bureau, 2007

  This article from Population Reference Bureau reports on a study of attitudes towards HIV prevention in rural Malawi. The researcher asked local people to write down or dictate to them any conversations about AIDS which they had taken part in or overheard. Since 1999, nearly 700 journals have been recorded. People talked openly about sex and HIV prevention.
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  Food security in southern Africa: changing the trend?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2007

  This paper reviews progress in addressing widespread chronic food insecurity since the crisis of 2001–03. It assesses changes regarding the understanding of the ‘problem’, to how it has been incorporated into policy, and how programming has changed to align with the stated policy objectives and underlying analysis.
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  Can parliaments enhance the quality of democracy on the African continent? An analysis of institutional capacity and public perception

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006

  Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party elections and democratic practices, legislative strengthening programmes have become an important part of international assistance. Parliaments are generally regarded as potential agents for democratic change but their actual role in enhancing the quality of democracy in Africa is far from clear.
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  Climate change and rural livelihoods in Malawi: review study report of Norwegian support to FAO and SCC in Malawi, with a note on some regional implications

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

  This review seeks to assess the sustainable livelihoods projects currently supported by Norway in Malawi within the context of climate change and its predicted impact on agriculture development and food security.
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  Step by step!: livelihoods, social institutions and treadle pump adoption, Kasungu District, Malawi

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

  This study investigates introduction of treadle pumps among poor small-scale farmers and effects of adoption on livelihoods and productivity using a case study from the Kasungu District in Malawi.
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  Climate change and smallholder farmers in Malawi

  ActionAid International, 2006

  While policy responses to global warming have mainly been driven by debates among scientists, the insights of poor people living on the frontline have been largely neglected. This study seeks to understand what is happening from poor peoples' perspectives. A field study was conducted using Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) in two districts of Malawi.
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  A regional multiplier approach to estimating the impact of cash transfers: the case of cash aid in rural Malawi

  Munich Re, 2007

  This paper analyses the impact of the Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer (DECT) programme in Dowa, Malawi, on the local economy. The programme consisted of cash transfers to households over a duration of five months. Transfers were adjusted to household size and changes in staple food prices. According to the authors, the programme was a success as:
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  The 2007/08 Malawi budget: macroeconomic implications

  Statistics Norway, 2007

  This report aims to analyse the medium- to long-term macroeconomic consequences of the main items expected to be implemented in the Malawi government budget for 2007/8. To perform the quantitative analysis the report uses a small macro econometric model developed in a cooperation project between the government of and Statistics Norway.The report is organised as follows:

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