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  Progress reviews and performance assessment in poverty-reduction strategies and budget support: a survey of current thinking and practice

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This report describes and analyses the challenges posed by the monitoring and evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budget support programmes.
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  Poverty monitoring systems: an analysis of institutional arrangements in Tanzania

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper is an examination of the design and functioning of poverty monitoring systems (PMS) in countries with national poverty-reduction strategies (PRS).
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  Adapting to climate change in East Africa: a strategic approach

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of the likely impacts of climate change in three least developed countries in East Africa: Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In the coming decades, climate change is likely to alter temperatures and distribution of rainfall, contribute to sea-level rise and increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in East Africa.
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  Malaria prevention – can social marketing net the poorest?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The impact of malaria is worst for the poor and marginalised. Insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) are a practical malaria control tool, but their spread across Africa has been slow. Can social marketing increase ownership of nets without decreasing equity? A study in Morogoro Region, southern Tanzania suggests that the reverse may in fact be true.
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  Designing integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) : illegal hunting, wildlife conservation and the welfare of the local people

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  Based on empirical evidence from Serengeti, Tanzania, this paper explores the effect on illegal hunting, wildlife conservation and human welfare of the most common instruments of existing Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs). In order to do so the paper compares the performance of two different ICDP designs.
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  Community-managed targeting and distribution of food aid: a review of the experience of Save the Children UK in sub-Saharan Africa

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This paper compares and evaluates how the Community-Managed Targeting and Distribution (CMTD) has been applied in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Malawi.The Tanzania programme was designed to protect livelihoods in populations facing recurring adverse seasons; the Malawi programme aimed to prevent nutritional deterioration in what was perceived to be a rapidly worsening food security crisis; and the Zim
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  Trust in public finance: citizens views on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania

  Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2004

  This paper examines the problem of tax evasion and non-payment in Tanzania, looking specifically at evidence that the rate of contribution to public services is affected by factors such as citizens’ trust in others and the trustworthiness of the government. Findings from a recently conducted citizens’ survey support this proposition.
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  Politics and the PRS approach in Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This presentation reviews the political dimensions of the PRSP approach in the Southern Africa sub-region.
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  The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Eastern Africa

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in Eastern Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of this diversity and it is poorly represented in the development planning process.
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  Does community-based ecotourism really benefit rural people in Tanzania?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Ecotourism can transform rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. These ventures generate income and encourage conservation of wildlife and natural resources. However, local governance issues and the control of natural resources determine the extent to which local communities or outside agencies benefit from tourism revenues.

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