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A service as basic as accessible, clean water is still out of reach for many Africans.
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Across Africa, health practitioners are in short supply because so many of them emigrate to developed countries for better pay and working conditions.
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The media can play a strong role in communicating vital information about health, education and service delivery to Africans. But first, media producers need to be won over.
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Illiteracy remains a big problem in African communities, simply because children have nothing to read and no one to read to them.
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The cellphone is changing African lives by providing a cheap, convenient communication line to people where traditional landlines have still not reached.
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Pumps like this are relatively rare in Africa. Women and children sometimes have to walk for hours to a water source.
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The Internet is opening up new opportunities for Africans to educate themselves and develop new businesses.
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These members of a community outside Maputo, Mozambique, are learning how to advise their municipality on what services would most improve their lives.
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Even in urban areas, many African schools lack the basics: desks, textbooks, or a wall to hang the blackboard on.
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Countries across Africa are battling to provide enough power for industrial and domestic use, and to roll out service delivery to remote rural communities.
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Tertiary and advanced education is beyond the reach of most rural Africans. Training on the job and via the Internet can help bridge the education gap for school leavers.
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African citizens have the right to trust the law as well as the responsibility to obey it. Law enforcement officers have the right to develop their skills and abilities to uphold the law and serve the community.
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Career development is an important incentive for government staff like these law enforcement officers in Mozambique.
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Traditional cultures sometimes deprive widows of their inheritance rights, leaving them destitute and dependent on children and relatives.
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African entrepreneurs need assistance tapping into financial resources as well as learning how to manage and expand their businesses.
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Research has shown that giving women more financial independence is a vital step towards lifting the economies of developing countries.
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Women across Africa need advice on their legal rights and opportunities available to them to build business skills.
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Infant immunisation is a relatively cheap way to prevent life threatening diseases, yet as recently as 2006 Namibia had a polio outbreak.
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Small businesses like this outdoor butchery in Soweto, South Africa, are threatened by the rise of shopping malls in townships and rural areas.
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This Mozambican girl left school to work after her parents died. If she does not get an education, her children will be less likely to finish school someday.
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Research has proven that sustainable development begins with education and literacy.
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Girls who are educated are proven to be more likely to make sure their children have an education in future.
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FEATURE
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Development Support Monitor 2009
July 2009
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In 2008, Africa was able to attract US$43 billion in private capital, US$40 billion in remittances and US$38 billion in aid. While this may look significant, Africa still faces a serious resource gap to complement its own efforts at mobilising domestic resources to bring about social and economic development.
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Tanzanians and their MPs: what the people want, and what they don't always get
February 2009
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Members of parliament face a challenging set of tasks in fulfilling their core and sometimes conflicting functions within government and society. They are expected to provide a voice for the people, that is, they represent their constituents’ interests and views within the national government. Furthermore, they are expected to provide constituency services to improve lives and livelihoods within their constituencies.
In addition, members of parliament (MPs) are also expected to legislate, drafting the laws of the land for presidential approval. And finally, MPs are expected to provide oversight of the executive branch of government (the President, the Cabinet and the government bureaucracy).
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