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    Decentralization, participation and access to water resources in Malawi

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2004
    This paper summarises BASIS research on the current state of decentralisation processes in Malawi with a focus on water resources.The following specific points and recommendations emerge from the policy review and case study:much will need to be done to draw reforms in Malawi’s environmental sector to people’s attention.
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    Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?
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    Secondary schooling crisis in Africa: can NGOs help?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    African education policymakers have failed to meet growing demand for secondary schooling. Budgetary provision for secondary education has stalled or declined and fewer pupils are moving from primary to secondary level. Enrolments have been so slow to increase, that the gap between most African countries and other developing countries has widened.
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    A vicious cycle: AIDS, famine and poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Smallholder peasant families in Malawi face two major risks: AIDS and famine. Malawi has the eighth highest prevalence of HIV and AIDS in the world. It is also prone to food shortage and experienced a major famine in 2001-02.
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    Social protection mechanisms in southern Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006
    Social protection is a relatively new concept in southern Africa. Regular, predictable and guaranteed transfers to the vulnerable in most countries have yet to be integrated into existing policies safeguarding lives following livelihood shocks such as drought and conflict.
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    Decentralisation in the agricultural sector in Malawi: policies, processes and community linkages

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2006
    The government of Malawi instigated a decentralisation programme in 2001 which involved devolving power and resources to local assemblies, with the District Assembly level playing a paramount role.
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    Agricultural recovery from disasters – the importance of seed-based support

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Ensuring farmers have seed is an essential part of emergency aid strategies in Africa. But how effective are these strategies, and who benefits from them?
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    Communities provide HIV and tuberculosis care in Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Malawi’s health service is struggling under the burden of HIV and AIDS and tuberculosis (TB). Its health workforce has only limited capacity to cope due to severe staff shortages, poor salaries and working conditions, high levels of HIV and AIDS-related deaths and chronic absenteeism due to illness among staff.
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    Keeping the promise? A study of progress made in implementing the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS in seven countries

    Panos AIDS Programme, 2006
    This report, from the Global AIDS Programme, is the product of seven studies which reviewed the progress being made in implementing the UNGASS (UN General Assembly Special Session) Declaration of Commitment (DoC). The studies were conducted in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, Latvia, Malawi, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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    Caring for AIDS patients at home in Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Home-based care is crucial for people with AIDS, yet it is not often available for patients in African countries. As AIDS patients experience different health problems, it is important to develop an understanding of the occurrence and duration of common illnesses in order to determine the needs of the patient community.

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