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    Healthcare delivery outside the public sector

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    What role can non-state providers play in scaling up healthcare delivery to meet the Millennium Development Goals? A policy briefing paper for the UK Department for International Development addresses this question using case studies in Bangladesh, India, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa.
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    Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis

    Development in Practice, 2008
    This issue of the journal has a special focus on “Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis” , and aims to add value to the discussion of methodological, practical, philosophical, political, and institutional issues involved in using gender-sensitive participatory methods. The articles included are:
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    National plans of action for orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa: where are the youngest children?

    Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2008
    Although it is recognised that the focus of support must be on all children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, including those living with sick parents or in extreme poverty, the youngest are often invisible to programme planners, despite their vulnerability.
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    Fighting corruption in infrastructure delivery in Nigeria

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In 2003, the Nigerian government set up the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit (BMPIU) to halt corruption and incompetence in public procurement and service delivery. Stakeholders, including contractors, suppliers and end-users, have had diverse reactions to the initiative. How has it performed and what are its strengths and weaknesses?
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    Are teachers facing a motivation crisis?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Achieving the education-related Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of basic education for all by 2015 will be a major challenge for national governments, especially as concern is growing that teachers are becoming increasingly demotivated. Is there a crisis in motivation among teachers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and if so, why? How can teachers be adequately motivated?
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    Gender equity remains a dream

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Are women choosing non-traditional subjects at university level? Do they have the same career development opportunities as men? Focusing on access, curriculum transformation and staff development in higher education, new research in five higher education institutes in South Africa, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda finds that gender inequity still prevails.
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    Mobile telephony and developing country micro-enterprise: a Nigerian case study

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2007
    Can mobile telephony improve commercial supply-chains in developing countries? Informational challenges (absence, uncertainty, asymmetry) shape the working of  markets and commerce in many developing countries. For developing country microenterprises,  which form the bulk of all enterprises worldwide, this shapes the characteristics of their supply chains.
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    Alliances for Africa (AFA)

    Alliances for Africa (AfA) is an African-led international non-governmental human rights, peace and sustainable development organisation with offices in the United Kingdom and Lagos, Nigeria.
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    African Democracy Forum (ADF)

    The African Democracy Forum (ADF), launched in Abuja, Nigeria, in October 2000, is an African regional network of democracy, human rights, and governance organisations.
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    Shareholder activism in Nigeria

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The role of shareholders in publicly quoted companies has evolved over time, and is often taken for granted in developed countries. In Nigeria, obstacles to coordinated shareholder activism to positively influence a corporation’s behaviour may be overcome through changes in the code of corporate governance, shareholder associations and information and communication technologies.

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