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    Help wanted: confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment

    Médecins Sans Frontières, 2007
    This Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) report examines the impact of human resources shortages witnessed by MSF teams in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, focusing largely on nurses in rural areas. It describes how MSF teams and local partners are trying to overcome human resource constraints.
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    Government and non-state sector collaboration to reach EFA

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The Education For All (EFA) agenda and Millennium Development Goals emphasise increasing access to basic education. Non-state providers could possibly contribute to expanding access to education. In what ways do states collaborate with these providers to ensure that poor children are not denied access to education?
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    Political parties in Africa: challenges for sustained multiparty democracy

    International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2007
    This paper analyses the status of multiparty democracy in Africa, looking particularly at the role of political parties.
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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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    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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    Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

    Journal of Development Studies, 2006
    This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
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    Reforming maize markets and regional food security

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2006
    This policy brief encourages greater civil society involvement in debates around national grain (particularly maize) policies and regional food insecurity in Southern African Development Community countries.
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    Education access and retention for educationally marginalised children: innovations in social protection

    Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education, 2005
    This report looks at the effectiveness of social protection programmes for educationally marginalised children (EMC) in Eastern and Southern Africa.

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