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  Formalising informal enterprises without damaging job opportunities

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The number of people seeking jobs is growing faster than the number of jobs created in the formal economies of many developing countries. Informal enterprises, mostly micro and small enterprises that avoid compliance with government regulations, often become the main employers.
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  Paying its way: can tourism generate funds for protected areas?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Tourism is continuing to grow rapidly. Regions in developing countries with high levels of biodiversity are seeing the greatest growth. Protected areas are increasingly attractive to tourists and some conservation areas, traditionally supported by government funding, are raising significant income through tourism.
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  Making waves: unique challenges for Marine Protected Areas

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Protecting marine and coastal areas involves many similar issues to terrestrial protected areas, including balancing conservation and development needs and managing tradeoffs between multiple users. However, they also present unique challenges: they often cross international boundaries and the high mobility or migration of many marine species makes protection beyond boundaries difficult.
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  Agriculture versus protected areas

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Agriculturalists strive to increase crop production to provide poor communities with incomes and a secure food supply whilst environmentalists want to expand protected areas and reduce the intensity of farming.
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  Surviving school: educating Rwanda’s children after the war

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  During and immediately after conflict, education can play a critical role in helping children return to a normal life - in laying the foundations for them to play a productive role in society. Yet during the war in Rwanda in the 1990s, development agencies did not see education as a high priority. How can education provide the vital support that children and communities need in times of crisis?
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  Customary land delivery practices in African urban areas

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Urban poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, often excluded from formal systems of land management, increasingly obtain shelter through other means. Informal systems to deliver land in cities borrow features from rural customs.
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  Community-based distribution in Tanzania: costs and impacts of alternative strategies to improve worker performance

  International Family Planning Perspectives, 2000

  This article, published in International Family Planning Perspectives, examines three “community-based distribution” (CBD) programmes for non-clinical family planning services in Tanzania. These programmes use community organisations, structures and institutions to promote the use of safe and simple contraceptive technologies.
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  The use of sustainable irrigation for poverty alleviation in Tanzania: the case of smallholder irrigation schemes in Igurusi Mbarali District

  Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2004

  Irrigation plays an important role in curbing food scarcity in Tanzania by improving agricultural productivity in areas where surface soils are naturally dry. However, irrigation places large demands on water resources which have major implications for other users.
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  The Global Fund: managing great expectations

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The Global Fund was set up in 2002 to provide funds for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.  How successful has it been so far at attracting, managing and distributing additional resources?
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  Filling the gaps: introducing substitute health workers in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Massive shortages in trained health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa have led to an examination of substitute health workers as an immediate response to the workforce crisis.For many countries these substitute health workers (SHWs) are not new. They already play various minor roles in health services, especially in rural and deprived areas.

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