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    Rights-based approach to development transforms a major international NGO

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Fighting Poverty Together is the name of ActionAid’s (a British aid agency) rights-based approach to development. ActionAid introduced several changes in the way it functions to reduce dependence on child sponsorship, decentralise its internal management and simplify its organisational structure.  But has this brought about any real changes at the grassroots level?
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    Female headed households in Tigray, Ethiopia; a study review

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004
    This study aims to document the existence of studies and available information sources relevant to increasing knowledge and understanding about the situation of female headed households in Tigray, Ethiopia, with a particular focus on household livelihoods.Specific objectives were to:Produce a report summarising and synthesising information gatheredwithin currently available informat
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    Churning on the margins: how the poor respond to drought in south Wollo, Ethiopia

    BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004
    This paper examines the degree to which the drought of 1999-2000 affected poverty trends in rural Ethiopia, and looks at how strategies in the coping and/or recovery period can assist drought-affected households.
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    Growing threat: HIV and adolescents in Ethiopia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    More than half of Ethiopians are under 15 years of age. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and other sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). How much young people know about HIV and STIs may be key to preventing infection.Most African countries have failed to address the risks of STIs and HIV among adolescents. Reasons include:
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    Addressing seed security in disaster response: linking relief with development

    Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004
    This volume contains eight case studies on seed aid in Africa. The case studies were undertaken to evaluate various forms of emergency seed aid in the field and to couple these with analyses of the broader seed and crop systems.
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    Can water and sanitation services reach low-income communities? Lessons from Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    By 2025 there will be 700 million urban Africans. Sub-Saharan Africa not only has the world’s fastest rate of urban population growth, but its cities also have the highest proportion of unplanned – and often illegal – low-income settlements.
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    HIV/AIDS in rural communities: a new set of challenges

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The HIV/AIDS epidemic sweeping across sub-Saharan Africa has been widely reported. In Ethiopia, attention has focused mainly on urban populations, despite the fact that most people live in rural areas. The spread and the effects of HIV/AIDS are often very different between these areas.
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    Pesticide use in Africa: doing more harm than good?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Pesticide use in Africa has increased dramatically in recent years, despite the escalating costs and the fact that they are becoming less effective. This is creating a dependency on pesticides amongst farmers, threatening food safety, causing health risks, deepening the inequality between rich and poor farmers and creating environmental problems.
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    Study of the impact of the work of Save the Children Norway in Ethiopia: building civil society

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004
    This report focuses on how the current activities of Save the Children Norway (SC Norway) have contributed to strengthening civil society in Ethiopia.SC Norway’s Ethiopia programme pursues the following six policy objectives:acceptance and understanding of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Childaccess to appropriate basic education, especially for girlsattitudinal change re
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    Study of the impact of the work of FORUT in Sri Lanka and Save the Children Norway in Ethiopia : synthesis report

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005
    This is the fourth and final report resulting from a study commissioned by the Evaluation Section of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December 2002.

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