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    Field-based models of primary teacher training: case studies of student support systems from Sub-Saharan Africa

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    Field-based training is seen as a low-cost means to achieve meet the increased demand for primary teachers in Africa but, this paper warns, will prove ineffective without the serious investment and planning for local-level support and assessment for student teachers.
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    Community Based Natural Resource Management – questioning the ‘success stories’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) has been popular since the 1980s. Donors, developing country governments and non-governmental organisations have supported this policy and it continues to be popular, despite repeated failures to deliver benefits.
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    Learning from capacity building practice: adapting the 'Most Significant Change' (MSC) approach to evaluate capacity building provision by CABUNGO in Malawi

    International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2006
    'Most Significant Change' (MSC) is a story-based, qualitative and participatory approach to monitoring and evaluation.
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    Forest dependence and participation in forest co-management in Malawi

    International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2006
    Using data from Chimaliro and Liwonde forest reserves in Malawi, this paper investigates how forest dependence influences households' decision to participate in forest co-management programme. The key question of this paper is: What makes people participate in the forest comanagement (FCM) programme in Malawi?
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    Shortages and shortcomings: the maternal health workforce crisis

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Providing maternal care requires a viable and effective health workforce. In many countries, and certainly in all countries where maternal mortality is high, the size, skills and infrastructure of the workforce is inadequate.
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    Malawi: study of non-state providers of basic services

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004
    This paper assesses the role that non-state providers (NSP) play in delivering health services, water and education in Malawi. The paper examines levels of knowledge about NSP; dialogue between government and NSP; and interventions to support NSP (regulation, contracting and facilitation).
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    The link between primary education and democracy in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    It is argued that democratically elected governments may have a greater incentive than authoritarian regimes to provide their citizens with primary schooling. It is also argued that democracy may be reinforced by primary education encouraging democratic attitudes. Is there evidence of any truth in these statements in African countries?
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    Developing flexible models for primary teacher training in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    In Africa, at least 20 countries are at risk of failing to meet the Education for All target. If reasonable student to teacher ratios are to be put in place, increasing the number and quality of teachers in primary education is essential. As the trend in training shifts away from traditional institutions, a more flexible approach is emerging in Africa.
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    Coaching and mentoring for leadership development in civil society

    International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2006
    This paper examines a range of practitioners' experiences of using mentoring and coaching with leaders of civil society organisations (CSOs) in a range of contexts.The authors highlight how coaching and mentoring are often 'inflicted' on leaders by donors or international organisations.
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    Cash not food: new emergency response trialed in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Oxfam’s response to predictions of acute food insecurity in Malawi and Zambia in 2005–2006 included cash transfers as an alternative to emergency food aid. Recipients were able to purchase the equivalent of a standard food aid ration. Should cash transfers become a standard tool in the responses to hunger?

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