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    Minding the gaps: integrating poverty reduction strategies and budgets for domestic accountability

    World Bank, 2007
    This study examines what challenges have arisen in countries where efforts have been made to integrate poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) with national budgets. It argues that both PRSs and national budgets offer scope for enhanced domestic accountability, but that fractures in planning and budgeting systems pose obstacles for donors and national governments.
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    Confronting the contradictions: the IMF, wage bill caps and the case for teachers

    ActionAid International, 2007
    IMF restrictions on recurrent government spending are working against the MDGs, and Education for All, this report argues.
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    EMIS capacity and priority identification: a web-based country survey for Ministry of Education personnel in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2007
    This report presents the results of a survey to gauge the capacity levels of Anglophone African Education Ministries’ statistics offices. It presents information provided by statisticians, planners and computer specialists from the Ministries on:
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    Equity in health and health care in Malawi: analysis and trends

    BMC Public Health, 2007
    This article in BMC public health assesses trends in inequities in health and health service utilisation in Malawi using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of 1992, 2000, and 2004. The paper finds that there has been an increase in the levels of pro-rich inequity in infant and under-five mortality rates.
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    Coordination Unit for the Rehabilitation of the Environment (CURE)

    CURE are an NGO based in Malawi and were created in an effort to provide technical support and improve networking amongst NGOS, the Government of Malawi, Donors and other organizations or individua
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    Challenging the IMF on education: why caps on teachers need to be lifted

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    UNESCO estimates that 18 million new teachers are needed globally between now and 2015 to get all children into school in more or less acceptable class sizes (of no more than 40 children to 1 teacher). At least 2.4 million new teachers will be needed in sub-Saharan Africa. It is clear that massive new investments need to be made.
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    Medicines without Doctors: why the Global Fund must fund salaries of health workers to expand AIDS treatment

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2007
    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to fight three of the world’s most devastating diseases. Recent internal comments from the Global Fund suggest an intention to focus more on these diseases, and to leave the strengthening of health systems and support for the health workforce to others.
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    Location matters: Targeted poverty eradication in rural Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Poverty reduction programmes often make generalised assumptions about the characteristics of rural communities. But not all rural areas are alike. Depending on local conditions and resources, some areas provide better livelihood opportunities than others. Understanding this fact, and using good data to target areas appropriately, will make for more effective poverty reduction.
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    A green revolution in Africa: hope for hungry farmers?

    Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Winnepeg, 2006
    This paper explores the underlying definitions and assumptions present in the current search for new approaches to African agriculture, looking specifically at strategies for improving soil fertility.It advocates a farmer-centred approach that involves active participation of all relevant stakeholders, with the view that sustainable agricultural livelihoods need to be built from a foundation th
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    Beating the hungry season through food and cash transfers in Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Humanitarian responses to food crises usually involve providing food or cash aid. Both approaches have their limitations. In Malawi, the success of Concern Worldwide’s Food and Cash Transfers Project justifies using a complementary, flexible approach on a wider, long-term basis.

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