Narrow down by keywords: Social sector, Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Non-state providers, the state, and health in post-conflict fragile states
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Relations between states and non-state providers in fragile states occur within specific complex political and economic contexts. Moreover, donor approaches to specific fragile states shape the flow and priorities of aid resources. In the health sector, ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-06-23 16:12
- Reaching beyond the health post: Community-based surveillance for polio eradication
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This article discusses the CORE Group Polio Project Ethiopia's introduction of community-based surveillance (CBS) of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) to support polio eradication. A USAID-funded collaboration among Ethiopian and US-based NGOs, the CGPP sup ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-02-25 16:12
- Free primary education still excludes the poorest of the poor in urban Kenya
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The Kenyan government introduced free primary education in 2003 in order to universalise access to primary education. Although the policy allows universal coverage, it ought to benefit the poor most as they are the ones who were excluded from the educat ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-06-23 16:24
- Cultivated, caught, and collected: defining culturally appropriate foods in Tallé, Niger
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The indigenous plants and fish of Niger are incorporated into the Songhai people's daily life but are largely underemphasised in development programmes. In this paper we describe the culturally appropriate foods of Tallé, Niger. Based on informat ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:03
- Urban governance and service delivery in Nigeria
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This article examines the inadequate delivery of social services by city governments in Nigeria. It identifies three problems: lack of transparency and accountability in governance; under-qualified staff and administration; and the tenuous relationship ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Where there’s no green man: child road-safety education in Ethiopia
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Traffic crashes kill 1.2 million people annually, and the number is growing fast, particularly in developing countries. Although child road-safety education is widely considered important, few programmes have resulted in demonstrated improvements in saf ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 14:10
- Toilet is not a dirty word: close to meeting the MDGs for sanitation?
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Improving access to water and sanitation facilities has been a priority on the international development agenda. Halving the number of those who do not have access to sanitation facilities is an MDG target. This study assessed the toilet conditions in a ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:04
- More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in microfinance in Ghana
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This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of G ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based workers in development interventions
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Within current neo-liberal approaches to development, models of community-driven development assume that community-based workers (CBWs) are key actors in improved and accessible service delivery. We argue that use of CBWs is under-theorised and seems to ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-07 13:12
- Mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS on rural livelihoods: building on Southern African experiences to chart a way forward
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A variety of interventions to mitigate the increasing impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on smallholder agricultural production and food security are currently implemented in sub-Saharan Africa. However, documentation and dissemination of such interven ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
