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    Mapping the activities of faith-based organizations in development in Nigeria

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2009
    This paper explores the nature, scale and activities of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in Nigeria. The paper points that the emergence, aims and activities of organisations associated with Christianity and Islam are linked to the expansionist goals and political aspirations of the two faith traditions. The paper’s main conclusions are:
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    Engaged yet disengaged: Islamic schools and the state in Kano, Nigeria

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2009
    This study examines the attempts to reform various types of Muslim and government education in Kano (a Muslim state in Nigeria) by encouraging the adoption of curricula containing both secular and religious subjects and providing other types of support.
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    Payment and independence: does a client relationship with government inhibit ‘think-tank’ criticism?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    This paper analyses the relationship between privately and publicly funded policy research institutions ('think-tanks') and government, and the extent to which that relationship may change commensurate with the extent of government funding. It investigates the extent of the real or notional independence of think-tanks, drawing on the Nigerian experience.
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    Accountability arrangements to combat corruption: a note on research methodology for combating corruption

    Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2007
    This document provides information about the research agenda and methods used to investigate corruption in the infrastructure sector. It presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyse corruption in the infrastructure sector.
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    African Women and Domestic Violence

    Open Democracy, 2007
    The annual mobilisation of women around the world around the theme of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence (25 November - 10 December) represents a tremendous global effort to increase awareness of violence against women in all its forms.
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    Tracking results in agriculture and rural development in less-than-ideal conditions

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    While donors and development practitioners still lack a common framework of results indicators to measure the effectiveness of development assistance, this sourcebook sets out a menu of core indicators that can be used to monitor agriculture and rural development (ARD) at the project, national regional and global levels.
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    Innovative Pro-Poor Healthcare Financing and Delivery Models

    Results for Development Institute, 2009
    In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care.
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    Strengthening the links between health systems research and policy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Translating the results of research on health systems into policies is rarely straightforward, particularly in low and middle-income countries. The research consortium Future Health Systems: Innovations for Equity has undertaken to plan and conduct focused health systems and policy research in some of the largest low-income countries in the world.
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    Retail pharmacy chains: setting standards for quality and price

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Retail pharmacy chains and franchise networks have the potential to change the way drug markets work in low and middle-income countries, standardising quality, lowering prices, and increasing access to medicines for people across all income levels.

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