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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 Kenya: a case study of Mwingi District

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  At policy level in Kenya, veterinarians have expressed concern about the ability of community-based animal health workers (CAHWs) to diagnose diseases and use veterinary drugs correctly.
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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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  Sustainability and privatization: The Zimbabwe Experience [veterinary services]

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper assesses the significance of institutional reform in the Zimbabwean Department of Veterinary Services and the impact that privatisation has had on veterinary services.It argues that veterinary services need to concentrate on core functions and form stronger linkages and partnerships with stakeholders in order to achieve their objectives.
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  Evolution of animal health services in the Greater Horn of Africa

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  The paper is based on findings from a review and analysis of institutions and policies affecting veterinary services in six countries of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA).
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  Cross-border issues related to the provision of animal health services with reference to Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper highlights various issues related to provision of animal health services in areas near national boundaries with reference to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia, and also suggests ways of improving service provision and delivery in these areas.
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  Primary animal health care in Ethiopia: the experience so far

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper demonstrates why community-based animal health services delivery should be implemented in pastoral areas of Ethiopia.
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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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