Moving toward competitiveness : a value chain approach (BAIFA Resources)
The World Bank uses a wide range of products to address economy-wide business environment issues...
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enterprise development, small enterprises, market access, competition, investment promotion, globalization, purchasing, development policy, mozambique, indonesia
Can sub-Saharan Africa leap into global network trade? (BAIFA Resources)
Critical factors for Africa's effective participation in global network trade are: price, speed-to-market, labor productivity,...
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international trade, commodity trade, agricultural products, industrial products, purchasing, tourism, marketing, trade policy, globalization, africa south of sahara, ghana, kenya, nigeria, lesotho, south africa, mozambique
Building competitiveness in Africa's agriculture : a guide to value chain concepts and applications (BAIFA Resources)
This Guide to value chain approaches and applications provides the user with actionable methods and...
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agriculture, agricultural production, commodity trade, agribusiness, horticulture, export development, agricultural product marketing, reference materials, mozambique, mali, nigeria, uganda, kenya, ghana, ivory coast, rwanda, zambia, botswana, africa
Participatory budgeting from a gender perspective (BAIFA Resources)
This issue of the GRB newsletter examines participatory budgeting (PB) as one of the main...
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government budgeting, popular participation, gender mainstreaming, women, mexico, argentina, venezuela, mozambique, morocco
Agri-ProFocus (BAIFA Resources)
Agri-ProFocus was established in 2005 as a multi-stakeholder initiative to promote agriculture in Dutch development...
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small farms, advisory services, enterprise development, agribusiness, finance, capacity building, institution building, development assistance, africa, netherlands, benin, ethiopia, kenya, mali, mozambique, niger, rwanda, uganda, zambia
Rights, resources and rural development : community-based natural resource management in Southern Africa (BAIFA Resources)
Examines the flaws in community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and proposes remedies for many locations...
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natural resources, natural resources development, local government, community participation, resources conservation, rural conditions, rural development, economic aspects, environmental aspects, botswana, lesotho, malawi, mozambique, namibia, south africa, southern africa, zambia, zimbabwe, africa
Decentralizing government and centralizing gender in southern Africa : lessons from the South African experience (BAIFA Resources)
This paper argues that: (1) effective involvement of women in local governance is predicated both...
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decentralization in government, gender, women, democracy, local government, political participation, social aspects, cultural and social anthropology, south africa, southern africa, angola, mozambique, zimbabwe, zambia
Yes Africa can : success stories from a dynamic continent (BAIFA Resources)
This book with success stories from Africa contains two chapters on different aspects of local...
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, health economics, tanzania, uganda, mozambique, botswana, mauritius, burkina faso, liberia, sierra leone, somalia, mali, rwanda, ghana, lesotho, kenya, malawi, africa south of sahara
Global uncertainties : security in an Africa of networked, multi-level governance (BAIFA Resources)
This research programme (2009-2012) of conflict management in Africa is built on the observation that...
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internal security, conflict, governance, congo, somalia, kenya, nigeria, ivory coast, mozambique, sierra leone, mali
Building sustainable local development through participatory governance and sub-national capacity development : why development and international support failures in Africa? (BAIFA Resources)
The author describes the conditions for successful decentralization and good local governance, leading to poverty...
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governance, decentralization in government, popular participation, capacity building, civil society, africa, mozambique