1 - 20 of 242 items matching your search:
How to make rural jobs more attractive to health workers. Findings from a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania
How to make rural jobs more attractive to health workers. Findings from a discrete choice experiment in TanzaniaJournal Article | Sep 2011
The geographical imbalance of the health workforce in Tanzania represents a serious problem when it comes to delivering crucial health services to a large ...
human resources for health, discrete choice experiments, rural-urban imbalances, Tanzania, Tanzania
Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania
Journal Article | Mar 2010
Background
The United Republic of Tanzania, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a human resources crisis in its health sector, with ...
Convincing health workers to work in rural areas
Convincing health workers to work in rural areasCMI Brief | Oct 2011
Tanzania has one of the lowest health worker ratios in the world. It is the rural areas that suffer the most. The geographical imbalance represents a ...
Tanzania
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: gender imbalance in political recruitment in Zambia
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: gender imbalance in political recruitment in ZambiaJournal Article | Jun 2019
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: gender imbalance in political recruitment in
Polygynous Neighbors, Excess Men, and Intergroup Conflict in Rural Africa
Polygynous Neighbors, Excess Men, and Intergroup Conflict in Rural AfricaJournal Article | Jul 2020
We argue that polygyny creates a social imbalance where few, economically well-off men marry many wives and many poor men marry late or never. By definition, ...
Polygyny, Bride prices, Family, Violence, Africa, Africa
Comparing urban and rural poverty in Angola
Comparing urban and rural poverty in AngolaCMI Brief | Nov 2018
This brief compares living conditions in villages in rural Malanje and shantytowns in urban Luanda and argues that while material poverty is most pronounced ...
Luanda, Kalandula, Malanje, urban, rural, Angola
Governance for sustainability? Balancing social and environmental concerns in Harare
CMI Report | Jan 2002
The paper examines urban governance in the framework of sustainable urban development. It agrees with most analyses that sustainable settlements embrace ...
Africa: Zimbabwe
Rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary debates and implications for Kenyan urban workers in the 21st century
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004
Despite the rapid rate of urbanisation in Africa, most migrants retain links to their rural origins. Many households pursue a circular migration strategy ...
Urbanization, Urban workers, Rural-urban links, Africa South of Sahara, Kenya, Africa: Kenya
Monitoring and Evaluating Poverty Reduction Policies in Mozambique. Study 2: Social Relations of Urban Poverty
Monitoring and Evaluating Poverty Reduction Policies in Mozambique. Study 2: Social Relations of Urban PovertyCMI Brief | Feb 2008
Issues of urban poverty have received little attention in Mozambique, even though the urban poverty rate is high and urban inequality is on the rise. ...
Urban Poverty, Mozambique
Urban dimensions of donors' poverty-reduction strategies
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2002
This paper examines the extent to which the poverty-reduction strategies of selected multilateral and bilateral donors incorporate an urban poverty dimension. ...
Urbanisation, Urban poverty, Global
From Global Village to Urban Globe. Urbanisation and Poverty in Africa: Implications for Norwegian Aid Policy
CMI Report | Jan 2001
Some 52 per cent of Africa's population are expected to live in towns and cities by 2025. There is generally an unequivocal correlation between urbanisation ...
Development aid, Poverty, Urbanisation, Africa south of Sahara, Africa
Marginalisation and Poverty in Rural Malanje, Angola
Marginalisation and Poverty in Rural Malanje, AngolaCMI Brief | Dec 2016
Rural Angola has gone through decades of hardships with war and economic marginalisation – culminating with the current economic crisis. This brief ...
poverty, rural, economic crisis, education, health, Malanje, Angola
Engaging, transcending and subverting dichotomies: Discursive dynamics of Maputo''s urban space
Engaging, transcending and subverting dichotomies: Discursive dynamics of Maputo''s urban spaceJournal Article | Jan 2014
Historically, while cities such as Mozambique’s capital Maputo have been analysed as divided into ‘formal ‘and ‘informal’ ...
anthropology, imagiaries, Maputo, Mozambique, narratives, Mozambique
"It's all about money": Urban-rural spaces and relations in Maputo, Mozambique
"It's all about money": Urban-rural spaces and relations in Maputo, MozambiqueJournal Article | May 2018
Within the anthropological urban scholarship on sub-Saharan Africa, there is a shared notion of the continued, and in some cases reemerging, importance ...
Mozambique, Anthropology, urban-rural relations
"Flooding our eyes with rubbish": urban waste management in Maputo, Mozambique
"Flooding our eyes with rubbish": urban waste management in Maputo, MozambiqueJournal Article | Aug 2018
Critical voices on urban management tend to portray conflicting governmentalities, with western 'top-down' municipal development models on the one hand, ...
citizen-state relations, divided city, informal settlements, urban sanitation, Mozambique
Book review: The creation of African urban livelihoods in-between the formal and informal city
Book Review | Jan 2004
Review of Karen Tranberg-Hansen and Mariken Vaa (Eds.) Reconsidering Informality: Perspectives from urban Africa. Uppsala, The Nordic Africa Institute, ...
Informal economy, urban planning, Africa, Africa
Sunnism, Salafism, Sheikism: Urban Pathways of Resistance in Sidon, Lebanon
Report in External Series | Jan 2019
This brief analyses Salafism as an urban phenomenon, with an emphasis on the contentious period following the Syrian uprising turned civil war (2011–present). ...
Lebanon
Towards cities of integrity: The role of urban planners
Towards cities of integrity: The role of urban plannersU4 Brief | Nov 2019
Getting urbanisation right is a prerequisite for human development and environmental sustainability. Yet, corruption risks in urbanisation abound and ...
Corruption and the city: How aid donors can support integrity building in urban spaces
Corruption and the city: How aid donors can support integrity building in urban spacesU4 Brief | Mar 2018
More than half of the world's population live in urban areas. The policies and practices of municipal governments are therefore an integral determinant ...
aid, donor coordination
Monitoring and evaluating Mozambique's poverty reduction strategy PARPA 2006-2008. A synopsis of three qualitative studies on rural and urban poverty
Monitoring and evaluating Mozambique's poverty reduction strategy PARPA 2006-2008. A synopsis of three qualitative studies on rural and urban povertyCMI Report | May 2009
The first three in a series of six qualitative and participatory studies on poverty and well-being in Mozambique have revealed that there are positive ...
Mozambique, Poverty