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  Keeping up with technology: the use of mobile telephony in delivering community-based decentralised animal health services in Mwingi and Kitui Districts, Kenya

  Farm Africa, 2007

  This paper explores the introduction of mobile phones and community pay phones within FARM-Africa's Kenya Dairy Goat and Capacity Building Project (KDGCBP), implimented in the districts of Mwingi and Kitui. 
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  Community-based animal health workers in pastoralist areas of Kenya: a study on selection processes, impact and sustainability

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This report describes a study in three pastoralist districts of Kenya to compare perceptions of livestock keepers at community level with policy makers at central level.
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  Veterinary services in the Horn of Africa: where are we now?: a review of animal health policies and institutions focussing in pastoral areas

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002

  This report is based on a study of public and private sector veterinary provision, including Community-based Animal Health (CAH), in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA).
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  Strengthening veterinary services in Africa with reference to success stories in under served areas

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002

  This paper argues that the market promoting, state-restricting policies that have dominated African economic development in the last twenty years are by themselves unable to bring about growth and development in the livestock sector.
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  Towards poverty-focused policies, legislation and institutions for animal health service delivery in Africa

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2002

  This paper reviews the rationale for encouraging livestock institutions to focus more clearly on the needs and aspirations of poor people as a central facet of poverty alleviation.
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  The need and possible modalities of establishment of community based delivery of veterinary services and inputs in the arid and semi arid areas in Kenya

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1999

  This article explores how veterinary services should be provided in African Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) areas.The article finds that:veterinary services have traditionally been offered free, with the Government meeting the costs of drugs, service, disease control and surveillance and employment and deployment of personnel.
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  Livestock in development: the changing role of veterinary services

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1996

  This paper reports the results of a survey of Chief Veterinary Officers’ (CVOs) opinions carried at the OIE General Session in May 1995.The article focuses on:their views on a number of key issues related to current policy debates about the delivery of animal health servicesthe nature of service deliverythe main influences on current activitiesthe major clients of State Vete
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  Community-based animal health services in southern Sudan: the experience so far

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998

  This article reviews the experience of facilitating community-based animal health services (CAHS) in southern Sudan.The article finds that:constraints to such initiatives include insecurity, poor access, lack of mobility, minimal infrastructure and trade, lack of veterinarians and climatic extremescommunity-based animal health services (CAHS) in an under-developed agro-pastoralist c
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  Delivery of animal health services in Eastern Africa

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998

  The paper describes and discusses the various approaches being used to establish private pastoral veterinary practices.
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  Delivery of Animal Health Services in Eastern Africa: Proceedings of a workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania, December 1998

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998

  The paper examines the sustainability of privatised community animal health services (CAHS) for remote areas in East Africa.

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