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    Making a hero book

    Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative For Children Affected by HIV/AIDS, 2006
    This manual leads children and youth, in groups, through a series of autobiographical story telling and art exercises, designed to explore solutions and to mobilise a community response, in the face of specific personal and social challenges.
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    Teacher motivation and incentives in Malawi

    Eldis Document Store, 2006
    What factors affect teachers’ motivation? This study from Malawi is one of 12 country case studies that explore this question in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Through interviews and data analysis, it finds that serious motivational problems are affecting teachers in Malawi at both primary and secondary levels.
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    Protecting against poverty and vulnerability in Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Levels of poverty and vulnerability in Malawi are very high. And many poor people are vulnerable to falling deeper into poverty. A key reason is inability to cope with increasing exposure to sudden and unexpected changes (shocks). What types of social protection measures could prevent people falling deeper into poverty?
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    Community wealth-ranking and household surveys: an integrative approach

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2007
    This paper focuses on the use of information from wealth ranking exercises in conjunction with data collected from household surveys. An analytical framework was examined by using data collected from rural areas of four eastern Africa countries. It is argued that the relative visibility of resources helps explain the weights given to different types of resources in wealth ranking exercises.
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    Libraries in Africa: a key to poverty reduction and literacy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Illiterate people are disadvantaged and disempowered in today’s global information society. They are unable to fulfil their potential and take part fully in society. Libraries are vital to sustain literacy, yet most poor communities in Africa lack access to them, while those that do exist tend to be poorly resourced.
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    Could health worker migration bring benefits to Malawi?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, is currently losing health professionals to rich countries while its own health system suffers from a critical lack of human resources. Is this movement of medical staff fundamentally unjust, or could it be a ‘win-win’ for both developed and developing countries?
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    Tackling the human resources crisis in Malawi’s public health system

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Since the late 1990s, Malawi’s public health services have appeared to be heading for collapse due to declining staffing levels. The government launched the Essential Health Package in 2004 to help improve the health of the population, which includes scaling-up HIV and AIDS-related services. The biggest challenge facing the initiative is improving human resource levels.
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    The institutional context of the 2004 general elections in Malawi

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006
    How can electoral processes retain legitimacy? Ensuring that elected political leaders act in accordance with their mandate without violating citizens' rights is a key challenge for new democracies in sub-Saharan Africa. In Malawi, as across the continent, executive dominance is still the the norm in spite of the many institutions in place to make the government more accountable.
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    Can Malawi’s poor afford free tuberculosis services?: patient and household costs associated with a tuberculosis diagnosis in Lilongwe

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007
    This paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization assesses the relative costs of accessing a tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis for the poor and for women in urban Lilongwe, Malawi, a setting where public health services are accessible within six kilometres and provided free of charge. The paper assesses patient and household direct and opportunity costs from a survey of 179 TB patients.
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    Addressing mistrust between governments and non-state service providers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Non-state providers (NSPs) of services play a vital role in poor and isolated communities. Some governments recognise the need to collaborate with them but most do not. How can partnerships between policymakers and NSPs, including local entrepreneurs, faith and community-based organisations, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) be made?

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