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    ESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice: Women, work and social protection

    Impact Initiative, 2019
    is collection of ESRC-DFID-funded research explores the need for a holistic approach to social protection moving beyond a framing of poverty alleviation as primarily being about access to the traditional labour market and cash transfers to encompass a broader range of considerations. Explores research from Bangladesh, Malawi, Lesotho, South Africa and Rwanda.
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    Tanzania makes great strides to tackle hunger and nutrition

    29 May 2018: While the African continent continues to face significant challenges in its fight against hunger and undernutrition, several African governments have increased their commitments in the fight against hunger and undernutrition.
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    Mineral governance barometer - Southern Africa

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2017
    Southern Africa is endowed with lucrative mineral resources such as diamonds, gold, copper, coal, platinum, and uranium.  This rich endowment can be a major asset in the quest for inclusive and sustainable development, yet mining in Southern Africa has often been criticised as an enclave sector that at best contributes little to economic development and at worst does substantial social and
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    Mobile phones and education in Sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy

    Journal of International Development, 2015
    Young people's use of mobile phones is expanding exponentially across Africa. Its transformative potential is exciting, but findings presented in this paper indicate how the downside of mobile phone use in African schools is becoming increasingly apparent.
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    Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study

    University of Durham, 2014
    The expansion of mobile phone use in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly over the last five years, has been remarkable in terms of speed of adoption, spatial penetration and, not least, the fact that this is an essentially spontaneous development firmly embedded in private sector activity.
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    Children’s mobility in Ghana: An overview of methods and findings from the Ghana research study

    Society, Biology and Human Affairs, 2011
    This paper is part of a collection forming A Special Issue, which covers selected themes from a larger project on child mobility in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. The themes are those which individual members of the Ghana research team identified as of particular interest and on which they have reflected, drawing on material collected and analysed by the team as a whole.
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    A Moving Issue: Children and young people’s transport and mobility constraints in Africa

    International Forum for Rural Transport and Development, 2010
    Children and young people are rarely at the forefront of transport studies, despite the fact that their ability to access health and educational facilities is crucial to the achievement of internatioanl development goals.
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    Communicating research to policymakers: researchers' experiences

    Population Reference Bureau, 2016
    Policymakers and advocates agree that using evidence to inform decisions is essential for good policymaking and program design, given that limited resources require decisionmakers to allocate budgets effectively. Recognizing these issues, funders have invested resources in communicating research findings to inform and empower decisionmakers.
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    From natural resource dependence to diversified economies: an agenda for future research

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    This policy note aims to outline potential future directions for research on natural resource governance in Africa, with specific focus on the extraction of minerals and hydrocarbons.
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    HIV-related discrimination among grade six Students in nine Southern African countries

    PLoS ONE, 2014
    HIV-related stigmatisation and discrimination by young children towards their peers have important consequences at the individual level and for our response to the epidemic, yet research on this area is limited.

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