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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Africa

    The Land Policy Initiative (LPI) of the African Union, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African development Bank (AfDB) concluded the development of a Framework and Guidelines) on Land Policy in Africa (F&G) to facilitate national land policy development and implementation processes.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is not straightforward. Among developing countries, changes in income or industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also influence the urbanization process.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    South Africa, Southern Africa

    Using an analysis of aerial photographs from 1942, 1985 and 2004 we assessed the impact of changing land tenure and land-use regimes on the cover of thicket vegetation on the Grahamstown commonage. Land-use impacts were examined by comparing plant species composition within three vegetation types between sites incorporated into commonage for different lengths of time and sites outside the commonage. Results showed that thicket cover increased by 87% between 1942 and 1985 but declined by 11% between 1985 and 2004.

  4. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Zambia

    Despite positive, relatively broad-based
    and stable growth record in recent years and immense
    untapped potential in agriculture, mining and services,
    Zambia's poverty rates have not declined significantly
    and remain high. Income growth is limited by coordination
    failures such as poor access to domestic and international
    markets, inputs, extension services and information. High
    indirect costs - most of which attributable to

  5. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Eswatini

    This history illustrates a number of
    themes encountered in Swaziland that faces developing
    countries and their external partners in Africa and beyond.
    Firstly, the history relates the experience of a small and
    comparatively insular country in addressing complex
    challenges deriving from rapid urbanization and, as a
    result, the growing need to adapt governance systems and
    structures. A second key issue is the challenge that small

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Liberia

    This Policy Memorandum provides policy
    advice to the government of Liberia (GOL) in an effort to
    mainstream gender issues in policies, programs, and projects
    supporting agricultural production and value-chain
    development. It is organized as follows. Section I reviews
    women's roles in Liberian agriculture and agricultural
    value chains, drawing on a variety of data sources,
    including the 2007 Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire

  7. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Ethiopia

    The African Ministers' Council on
    Water (AMCOW) commissioned the production of a second round
    of Country Status Overviews (CSOs2) to better understands
    what underpins progress in water supply and sanitation and
    what its member governments can do to accelerate that
    progress across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). AMCOW
    delegated this task to the World Bank's Water and
    Sanitation Program and the African Development Bank (AfDB),

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    The objective of this paper is to
    present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector
    in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new
    insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes
    of the report are the challenges facing the urban sector and
    the policy implications at various levels of government.
    Some of the reports mains findings are: urbanization in
    Egypt takes on forms and processes which are not well

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Tanzania

    This report presents the problem,
    describes the analytical framework, the African and World
    context and the characteristics that need to be present for
    a responsible and effective urbanization. Chapter one
    discusses the issues involved in measuring urban growth and
    density and the problem of under-measuring density. Chapter
    two introduces key aspects of the recent urbanization in
    Tanzania, including migration, structure of economy and

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Tanzania

    This paper seeks to develop estimates of
    the net cost of the urban expansion in Tanzania. The paper
    focuses on developing estimates of the cost of planning and
    servicing land for new residential urban settlement. It does
    not attempt to develop detailed estimates of the cost of
    addressing infrastructure backlogs which would include the
    retrofitting of basic urban infrastructure to unplanned
    areas. On the revenue side, estimates of current spending in

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