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  Training Ethiopia’s blind people in ICTs

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Blindness in Ethiopia results from a wide range of natural and man-made factors, and is also linked to underdevelopment and armed conflict. Neglect, discrimination and lack of awareness means blind people have little access to education, employment, information and other forms of social participation.
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  Behavioral survey for HIV/AIDS infection in Asosa, among the general population and commercial sex workers

  Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, 2004

  This article, published in the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, reports on a study to assess high-risk behaviours for HIV/AIDS transmission and factors for voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) in Asosa Town, Ethiopia. Findings indicate that both the general population and commercial sex workers are engaged in high-risk behaviour and have low levels of condom awareness and use.
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  Shocks, sensitivity and resilience: tracking the economic impacts of environmental disaster on assets in Ethiopia and Honduras

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  This paper analyses the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks. It also investigates the circumstances under which poor households are pushed into poverty traps from which recovery is not possible.
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  Pregnancy and child health outcomes among adolescents in Ethiopia

  Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, 2004

  This article from the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development reports on a study which compared teenage and adult mothers in Ethiopia, focusing on pregnancy outcomes and child survival. Findings showed that a significantly higher percentage of teenage mothers lived in rural areas, were illiterate or less educated, and belonged to the poorest socio-economic groups.
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  The role of local knowledge in wetland management in Ethiopia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Wetlands are one of the world’s most valuable ecosystems, performing a variety of important ecological functions. Local communities depend on wetlands for many things; food, fodder for animals and water. People have managed wetlands sustainably for generations. However, planners have often seen wetlands as wasted land, which needs to be made economically productive.
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  Teacher development and student well-being

  Forced Migration Review, 2005

  This article focuses on the Healing Classrooms Initiative piloted by International Rescue Committee in post-conflict Ethiopia and Afghanistan.
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  Education in emergencies: learning for a peaceful future

  Forced Migration Review, 2005

  Forced Migration Review focuses on issues facing refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy and practice and to involve refugees and IDPs in programme design and implementation.
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  Impact of subsidies on the affordability of the modern energy services by the urban poor in Ethiopia: the case of electricity and kerosene

  African Energy Policy Research Network, 2004

  This report attempts to assess whether poor urban households in Ethiopia are able to afford modern fuels, particularly kerosene and electricity. It also examines the role of subsidies and their effect on the country’s public finances; and analyses the ways in which the energy tariff structure affects informal sector enterprises.
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  Assessing the value of climate forecast information for pastoralists: evidence from southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya

  Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2003

  This paper explores the value of external climate forecast information to pastoralists in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
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  Natural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areas

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.

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