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  The southern Africa crisis: food insecurity, HIV/AIDS and the international response

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  In 2002, a crisis threatened southern Africa, with food insecurity occurring in a region seriously affected by HIV/AIDS. The humanitarian response focused on food aid but paid insufficient attention to public health. Health was seen as a long-term developmental issue that could not be addressed by short-term humanitarian action.
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  Using local seed systems for agricultural disaster recovery

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In areas affected by disasters such as drought and war, recovering agricultural activity quickly is vital to household food security. Relief seed aid, which replaces seeds lost during disasters, is important to ensure that farmers have adequate quantities of quality seeds of the right variety for the planting season following a disaster.
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  Bringing gender to bureaucracies: experiences from African ministries of health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The integration of a gender focus into sector- wide approaches for development (SWAps) presents a number of challenges and opportunities. Case studies of health SWAps in four sub-Saharan African countries suggest that the approach has raised the profile of gender in ministries, but has not yet received the support or capacity to fully integrate gender equity into policy.
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  Sugar industries in least developed countries: profiting from ‘Everything but Arms’

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Guaranteed high prices are increasing sugar production in many of the world’s least developed countries. The possibility of duty and quota free access to European markets in 2009 is attracting foreign investment. Proactive governments are now needed to maximise the opportunities that the ‘Everything but Arms’ (EBA) initiative brings.
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  Hunger crisis: learning from southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  How is the HIV/AIDS pandemic affecting food security in Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique? How can humanitarian agencies speed up their response to hunger crisis in Africa? These are just two of many questions emerging from an independent evaluation of the 2002-2003 Disasters Emergency Committee Southern Africa Crisis Appeal.
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  Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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  Social funds contribute to poverty reduction in Malawi

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Malawi is a poor country: close to 65 percent of the rural population live on less than US$ 0.60 per day and 48 percent of children are malnourished. The first Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) aimed to reduce such high poverty levels. It was introduced at a time when the country was transitioning politically to multi-party system.
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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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  Health system capacities in developing countries and global health initiatives on communicable diseases

  Uma Lele, Personal Website, 2005

  The paper assesses seven international health programs addressing communicable diseases, primarily focusing on the focus on the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) and its interactions with other organisations. It argues that global health programmes need to shift away from a tendency for crisis management to a greater focus on longer-term strategic planning and implementati
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  Achieving universal primary education in Malawi: quantity at the expense of quality?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Malawi committed itself to achieving universal primary education (UPE) after its first democratic election in 1994. The incoming government had a vision of how primary education could tackle chronic poverty. However, lack of sufficient finance has led to failure to honour pledges of free primary education (FPE).

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