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    National plans of action for orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa: where are the youngest children?

    Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2008
    Although it is recognised that the focus of support must be on all children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, including those living with sick parents or in extreme poverty, the youngest are often invisible to programme planners, despite their vulnerability.
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    Import/export parity price analysis

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2008
    This manual focuses on the role parity prices play in food security and early warning analysis. Parity prices are used to compare prices of a commodity in two different locations, when the two locations are in different countries.
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    How Africa can get more from relations with China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    China’s emergence is having a big impact on Africa. But the relationship presents challenges as well as opportunities. How can Africa influence Chinese policy in order to benefit more from its relations with this important partner?
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    Links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: situation analysis for arid and semi-arid lands in southern Africa

    Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008
    Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widespread urbanisation, modernisation, and globalisation, along with the primacy of capitalist economic models, the obvious reliance of humans on ecosystems has become diluted for many, and difficult to maintain for others.
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    What will higher global food prices mean for poor consumers and small farmers in southern Africa?

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    Rising food prices present a very real threat to ongoing efforts to combat poverty and hunger in southern Africa. However, this brief produced by the Regional Hunger & Vulnerability Programme (RHVP), argues that this is not necessarily the full picture.
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    Improving energy planning in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Energy is central to economic development and poverty reduction in Africa. Energy planning will be critical for the future development of the sector but planning in many poor countries is inadequate. How can donor-funded research improve energy planning in sub-Saharan Africa?
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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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    Africa’s success: evaluating accomplishments

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
    This paper evaluates the seven presumed African success stories: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda. It gives a detailed analysis of the economic, political, governance and human development scenarios in each country, and identifies the emerging challenges.
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    Sexual violence against women during conflict: the need for a coordinated effort

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Systematic campaigns of rape in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s have drawn international attention to the abuse of women in times of war. But the number of victims who receive redress or support for rebuilding their lives remains small.
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    In the best interests of the child: harmonising laws in Eastern and Southern Africa

    African Child Policy Forum, 2007
    This report reviews and analyses how far 19 Eastern and Southern African countries have gone in harmonising and implementing the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC, or 'the African Charter').

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