This book is an essential and comprehensive new resource for all practitioners and policy makers interested in gender and development in the Africa region. It providers a clear guide as to which laws matter at the country level for women, and offers a bridge for lawyers and development specialists to understand the linkages between the law and its impact on everyday economic opportunities
HIV/AIDS continues to take a tremendous toll in Sub-Saharan Africa. In some countries wiyh high HIV prevalence rates, life expectancy has declined by by 10 to 20 years or more. Even where HIV prevalence is about 5 percent (close to region's average), the epidemic has reserved gains in expectancy and other health outcomes achieved over one or two decades.
This book aims to provide an understanding of how these dynamic enterprise clusters in Africa were formed and have evolved, and how knowledge, human capital, and technology have contributed to their success. These case studies from Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda will be of interest to a broad range of development professionals.
This book compiles the latest data and viewpoint on the state of Sub-Saharan Africa’s children. Topics covered include the rational for investing in young children, policy trends in early childhood development (ECD), historical perspectives of ECD in Sub-Saharan Afrika including indigenous approaches, new threats from HIV/AIDS, and the importance of fathers in children’s lives.
The world bank’s commitment to HIV/aids in Africa : our agenda for action, 2007-2011 updates and refocuses the bank’s response to assist countries to achieve the sixth Millennium Development Goal, to help halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. This agenda for action is a road map for reaffirming the bank’s commitment to combating AIDS in Africa, moving from its initial emergenc…