Narrow down by keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Public-private partnership (PPP) and water-supply provision in urban Africa: the experience of Congo-Brazzaville
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This paper addresses the introduction of a public-private partnership (PPP) for water provision in urban Congo. It describes the organisational context before and after PPP and discusses the various outcomes of the partnership, both positive and negative. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:40
- Beyond the micro-project: a new strategy in Benin
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From 1989, an attempt to improve agriculture by directly addressing ignorance and fatalism has been developed in Benin by an Italian NGO, Mani Tese, based on attempts to provide traditional peasant farmers with better qualifications and greater motivation ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
- The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network
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The paper discusses some of the innovative ways in which the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN) has generated space for alternative critical feminist knowledge and analysis, which it sees as an essential basis for equitable development. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38
- Community-based animal health care in Zambia
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The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs' [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis'. The ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37
- The development role of community banks in rural Nigeria
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This paper examines a Community Banking Scheme set up in Nigeria in 1991, in terms of its financial capabilities - `deposit mobilisation capability, and the value and ratio of its loan portfolio' - and considers four examples of its non-banking developmen ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:48
- The impact of reforms and development on the traditional values of the Cameroon Grassfields
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Reforms and development in the Cameroon Grassfields have raised the costs of building materials, which means that the poor may never be able to afford to build their own homes and so must rent. Locally available materials have been disregarded and their u ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:45
- African Perspectives on China in Africa
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Author: Manji, Firoze and Stephen Marks Publisher: Nairobi and Oxford: Fahamu, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:20
- New communication technologies in tropical African development
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Author: Komia Domatob, Jerry, William A. Ausmus, and John M. Butler Issue:& ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:00
- Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
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Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles i ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-06-23 10:39
- HIV/AIDS prevention: building on community strengths in Ajegunle, Lagos
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This paper builds upon field research in Ajegunle, Nigeria, which suggests that effective HIV/AIDS prevention requires a much higher degree of independent community participation. In exploring ways to achieve this, we suggest that assessing community st ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-07 13:11
