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  Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate and reproduce these inequalities.
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  The effect of China and India's growth and trade liberalisation on poverty in Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  Despite the fact that trade between China, India (Asian Drivers) and Africa has grown significantly since 1990, it is only recently that attention has been paid to their impact on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Assessment of violence against children in the Eastern and Southern Africa region

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This study provides an extensive picture of violence against children in Eastern and Southern Africa, providing regional and country specific information on national legal and policy frameworks and enforcements.
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  Emergency Nutrition Network special supplement: community-based therapeutic care

  Emergency Nutrition Network, 2004

  This supplement, published by the Emergency Nutrition Network, focuses on community-based therapeutic care (CTC) programmes for the treatment of acute malnutrition. It presents field experiences and case studies from Ethiopia, Malawi, North Darfur in North Sudan, and South Sudan, covering management, technical, and cultural issues.
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  Global reach, local relevance: satellite broadcasting and poverty alleviation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Satellite broadcasting brings excellent sound quality and a variety of channels to the world’s most isolated rural areas. It is therefore considered an important information and communication technology that can contribute to poverty alleviation. With its wide geographical reach, however, it is difficult for satellite broadcasting to provide local content and relevant information.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper proposes a framework for measuring empowerment (ME) comprising three core concepts: agency, opportunity structure, and degree of empowerment. In this regard, it defines empowerment as a person’s capacity to transform choices into desired actions and outcomes.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  World Bank, 2005

  The definition of empowerment used in this paper is a person's capacity to make choices and transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes. The extent to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made).
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  A place to live: women's inheritance rights in Africa

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2005

  This paper examines women's differential needs and challenges for obtaining housing. The report grew out of a consultative survey of women in 10 African countries, including interviews with individuals and members of government, and workshops with local experts.
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  Improving household food security and nutrition in northern Shewa, Amhara region and southern zone, Tigray region, Ethiopia

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2003

  The document presents Community Action Planning guidelines, focused on improving the nutrition and food security status of selected communities in four woredas in Etiopia: Lalomama and Gera-Keya in North Shewa and Enderta and Hintalo Wajerat in southern Tigray.
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  Training of trainers in implementation of UNCCD/NAP in Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004

  This paper summarises the events at a training of trainers that took place in Ethiopia in 2004. The training covered concept and principles of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), communication skills and adult education, and community based project proposal formulation.

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