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1 October 2005
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin aims to provide policy-relevant research insights for a wide range of actors interested in climate change adaptation. It brings together results from a recently completed interdisciplinary research project, the Linking Climate Adaptation Project, about how vulnerable communities might respond to the impacts of climate change.
Commissioned as an independent evaluation by the Ministry of Finance, Rwanda, this evaluation sought to examine progress in the preparation, design and implementation of Rwanda's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP).
Analytical study to assist with the design of a functional health and education conditioned cash transfer for the poor in Nigeria.
1 September 2005
Published by: IDS
A major increase in the amount of aid to less developed countries is widely anticipated, by or soon after late 2005, to bolster efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The sums involved may not be as substantial as expected, and they come mainly from Europe, but we are still likely to see a significant enhancement of funds for development.
IDS is part of the Realising Rights Research Programme Consortium, which brings together researchers from several disciplines to focus on populations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with the greatest access and entitlement problems in sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
This project aims to create and strengthen analytical and practical capacity of policy analysis in Ethiopia and to support the government in its endeavours to meet the challenges of the MDGs.
Presently, 68 per cent of Zambians live below the poverty line. The Government of Zambia has recognised that Social Protection is an important tool for reducing poverty and contributing to economic growth.
23 June 2005
Published by: ITDG Publishing
This book stimulates debate about the roots of poverty in Africa and what should be done about it. It draws on a substantial body of research to argue that much thinking on Africa - from both official donors and from international NGOs alike - is flawed, because that thinking either does not recognize or does not draw out the implications of the central role of politics and the state in Africa's development problems.
1 June 2005
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin draws together contributions from a diverse range of researchers and development practitioners working in Africa, with the common goal of exploring why agriculture is contributing to poverty reduction and livelihood improvement in some places
This project looked at the impact of China's growing exports of manufactures on industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa.