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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Farming flowers for export, Kenya
    Farming flowers for export, Kenya

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: Karen Ellis
    Source: ODI

    Improving the performance of Ministries of Agriculture in the field: recent insights from Africa

    Event - Public event - 1 December 2010 17:30 - 19:00 (GMT+00)

    With funds flowing again to African agriculture, what can be done to help make Ministries of Agriculture more effective in the field? Is funding the issue, or is their use more important? What, in any case, should be the roles of the ministry at the district level? And thus what roles should NGOs and private enterprise play?


    This meeting will discuss emerging insights from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.

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  2. Street children in Mumbai gather around cars for begging
    Street children in Mumbai gather around cars for begging

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    Credit: focus2capture
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    Spatial poverty traps – what are they and what can be done about them?

    Projects - December 2010
    This series seeks to progress thinking and debate on the spatial dimensions of development, with a specific focus on poverty. The series is interdisciplinary in nature, including papers by geographers, economists, anthropologists and political scientists. It captures evidence from a range of low-income countries. The series is policy-focused: as well providing insights into the nature of spatial poverty in low-income countries, our hope is that the series provides tractable and realistic policy advice on how policies and programmes can think through and address poverty resulting from spatial disadvantage.
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  7. Gendered risks, poverty and vulnerability in Ghana

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 19 October 2010
    Christiana Amuzu; Nicola Jones; Paola Pereznieto

    The focus on this report is to analyse the extent to which gender-specific economic and social risks inform Ghana's LEAP programme design and implementation, with the aim of informing onoing initiatives to strenghten the programme's effectiveness.

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  8. Why the MDGs need critical friends

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 20 September 2010
    It is easy to criticise the Millennium Development Goals . Some consider them, at best, naïve and, at worst, a sop to misguided global welfarism. Not surprisingly, there are plenty of sceptics who predict a damning failure to reach the goals by the 2015 deadline.

    World leaders in New York this week need to prove them wrong. What the MDGs need now is not scepticism or naivety, but critical friends.

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