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- Resuscitating voter interest in Zambia: the Adult Education Association of Zambia's role in national elections
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The author describes AEAZ's role in sensitising rural voters, so often marginalised and voiceless, with a series of civic awareness campaigns organised throughout Zambia in the run-up to elections in November 1996. The campaigns made clear the roles of MP ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37
- 'Good governance': the itinerary of an idea
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The concept of good governance originated among African scholars in relation to state–society relations in Africa, expressing the concern that these be developmental, democratic, and socially inclusive. The term has since been taken up by the internationa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36
- Factors and motivations contributing to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi
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This article reports on a study to explore the factors and motivations that contribute to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community volunteers in 15 of the 32 site ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- African Voices on Development and Social Justice: Editorials from Pambazuka News 2004
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Author: Manji, Firoze and Patrick Burnett (eds.) Publisher: Dar es Salaam: Mk ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48
- Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change
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Author: Palmer, Ingrid Issue: Volume 3, Numb ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 08:45
- Linking evidence with user voice for pro-poor policy: lessons from East Africa
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Many agricultural research and development projects seek to achieve pro-poor outcomes through policy change. However, policy processes are complex, and a strategic approach to enhancing impact at policy level is often not applied. This article describes ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:37
- Managing interactions in the informal water market: the case of Kisumu, Kenya
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The commercialisation of water services in Kisumu, Kenya has resulted in fewer managerial changes than had been anticipated. Challenges include perceived political interference, inequitable treatment of different groups of residents, and little inter-ag ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-15 10:12
- Veterinary services in the Horn of Africa - where are we now?
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Pastoralists are marginalised in the Horn of Africa and receive inadequate veterinary services. Under economic structural adjustment programmes, public veterinary services became increasingly ineffective and, in response, community-based NGO programmes we ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:41
- Wood-burning stoves in Kenya: sale or subsidy?
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This paper looks at a project funded by the Intermediate Technology Development Group aimed at allowing more households in Western Kenya to have access to improved wood-burning stoves, while at the same time benefiting the women who produce them. The basi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
- Development without a peasantry: a forgotten aspect of the land issue in South Africa
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The policies of the apartheid regime prematurely destroyed the peasantry in South Africa, leaving millions of people without land or jobs. The abrogation of racial laws that reserved 87 per cent of the land for whites makes it possible to launch policies ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
