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    Africa’s youth employment challenge: new perspectives | IDS Bulletin Vol 48, No 3

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    Youth and employment concepts are not new to development discourse in sub-Saharan Africa but over the last decade interest has increased dramatically, becoming a much more important focus for policy, intervention and research throughout the continent (and globally).
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    Empowering drylands women

    Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2014
    The Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP) is a global UNDP initiative to promote sustainable development in the drylands, and advance the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. This topic brief highlights the important role that gender plays in this context of sustainable development, in particular the role of women in the Arab States and Africa.
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    Urbanization and education in East Africa

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012
    The objective of this book is to pull together contributions on how education provision is affected by the rapid urbanization and to highlight the practice and policy gaps in the education of those who live in the urban areas.
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    Energy, climate change and poverty alleviation - policy paper

    Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development, 2010
    The papers from three of GNESD’s Member centres examine different aspects of the complex links between climate change, energy and poverty, to help clarify the debate and to demonstrate that the issues, while complex, are nonetheless perfectly manageable.
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    Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

    Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
    Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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    How bioenergy projects could boost rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Some 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and over 2 billion rely on biomass for their cooking and heating needs. Across the developing world there are encouraging examples of small-scale initiatives developing and transforming bioenergy resources into cleaner and more convenient forms of energy. How can they be scaled up?
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    Survival of the fittest. Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa

    Oxfam, 2008
    This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change. 
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    Adapting to flood risks in urban Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Volatile weather patterns are increasingly affecting urban slums in Africa. Climate change is already aggravating urban flooding. When floods occur, residents of marginalised areas have only a limited set of options. They need urgent help to reduce risk and improve prospects for emergency action and safe evacuation.
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    Community wealth-ranking and household surveys: an integrative approach

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2007
    This paper focuses on the use of information from wealth ranking exercises in conjunction with data collected from household surveys. An analytical framework was examined by using data collected from rural areas of four eastern Africa countries. It is argued that the relative visibility of resources helps explain the weights given to different types of resources in wealth ranking exercises.
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    Exports are key to raising incomes in Ghana and Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Donors and policymakers have placed poverty reduction at the top of their agenda. Raising the incomes of people in poor countries will be essential. What causes incomes to rise? What policies are needed to promote better paying jobs in sub-Saharan Africa?

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