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9662: Reform Experience with the Tanzanian Cotton Sector

John Baffes

9661: Exploring Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture: The Potential of Cross-Sectional Analysis

Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar

9660: Senegal - Successful Innovation in the Water Sector

P.C. Mohan

9659: Democratizing HIV Communication

Thomas Scalway

9658: Public-Private Sector Dialogue in Uganda’s Reform Process

William Kalema

9657: Benin - Decentralized City Management

P.C. Mohan

9656: Where Capacity is Not the Only Problem: Moving from Generic Capacity Building to Support for Issues-Based Change in Nigeria

Christopher Pycroft and Richard Butterworth

9655: Anarchy and Invention: How Does Somalia’s Private Sector Cope without Government?

Tim Harford and Tatiana Nenova

9654: Mauritania - The Rainfed Natural Resource Management Project

Amadou Omar Ba

9653: When Passionate Leadership Stimulates Enduring Change: A Transformational Capacity Development Anecdote from Uganda

Nadim Matta and Patrice Murphy

9652: Cape Verde: Improving Education and Training

P.C. Mohan

9651: Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) - Lessons from Uganda’s Integrated Fiduciary Assessment Process

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah

9650: Community-Based Health Insurance in Rwanda

Francois Pathé Diop and Jean Damascene Butera

9649: Applying a Capacity-Results Framework in Lao PDR and Other Pilot Countries

Chirine Alameddine and Moira Hart-Poliquin

9648: Cost Recovery and Water Pricing for Irrigation and Drainage: What Works?

K. Easter and Yang Liu

9647: Senegal - Urban Development and Decentralization Program

Catherine D. Farvacque-Vitkovic

9646: Social Marketing of Bednets in Tanzania

Rose Nathan, Hadji Mponda and Hassan Mshinda

9645: Intellectual Property Rights for Agriculture in International Trade and Investment Agreements: A Plant Breeding Perspective

Derek Eaton, Niels Louwaars and Rob Tripp

9644: Tanzania - Urban Sector Rehabilitation

World Bank

9643: Distance Learning: Connecting Development Practitioners

Siddhartha Prakash

9642: Does Training Work? Re-Examining Donor-Sponsored Training Programs in Developing Countries

Mark Nelson

9641: Conjunctive Use of Groundwater and Surface Water

Tushar Shah, Salah Darghouth and Ariel Dinar

9640: Shaping the Future of Water for Agriculture: Designing and Implementing Quality Investments in Agricultural Water Management

Christopher Ward, Ariel Dinar and Salah Darghouth

9639: Investing in Drought Preparedness

Donald Wilhite, Salah Darghouth and Ariel Dinar

9638: Water Management and Agricultural Trade

Shobha Shetty, Salah Darghouth and Ariel Dinar

9637: Reengaging in Agricultural Water Management: Policy and Institutional Options for Decision Makers

Christopher Ward and Salah Darghouth

9636: Nigeria - Design of the Community Social Development Project (CSDP)

Sharon L. Watkins

9635: Five Key Messages: Recommendations for Capacity Development in Africa

Callisto Madavo

9634: Ukraine - BEEPS-at-a-glance

World Bank

9633: Poland - BEEPS-at-a-glance

World Bank

9632: Moldova - BEEPS-at-a-glance

World Bank

9631: Macedonia - BEEPS-at-a-glance

World Bank

9630: Bosnia - BEEPS-at-a-glance

World Bank

9629: Belarus - BEEPS-at-a-glance

World Bank

9628: Armenia - BEEPS-at-a-glance

World Bank

9627: Albania - BEEPS-at-a-glance

World Bank

9626: Expanding Post-Harvest Finance Through Warehouse Receipts and Related Instruments

Marisa Baldwin, Erin Bryla and Anja Langenbucher

9625: Senegal - Sustainable and Participatory Energy

World Bank

9624: Post-Conflict Mozambique’s Reconstruction: A Transferable Strategy in Africa

Luisa Diogo

9623: Using Technology to Build Inclusive Financial Systems

Gautam Ivatury, Mark Pickens and Hannah Siedek

9622: AML/CFT Regulations: Balancing Security with Access

World Bank

9621: Mobile Phones for Microfinance

Gautam Ivatury and Mark Pickens

9620: When Markets Do Not Work, Should Grants Be Used?

Kees van der Meer and Marijin Noordarn

9619: Rwanda - Agricultural and Rural Market Development

P. C. Mohan

9618: Sierra Leone - The Role of the Rapid Results Approach in Decentralization and Strengthening Local Governance

Nadim Matta, Zahra Hassanali and Rashmir Balasubramaniam

9617: Maternal Mortality

World Bank

9616: Surveillance

World Bank

9615: A Revolution in Capacity Development? Africans Ask Tough Questions

Bathylle Missika-Wierzba and Mark Nelson

9614: Supporting Community-Managed Loan Funds

Jessica Murray

9613: Mozambique - The Second Roads and Coastal Shipping Project

World Bank

9612: Credit Alternatives in Rural Finance: Rinancial Leasing

Renate Kloeppinger-Todd and Ajai Nair

9611: Malawi - Public Works Programme: Conditional Cash Transfers as an Emergency Response to a National Food Shortage

Boniface Kalanda, Charles Mandala and Joseph Magwira

9610: The Capacity to Evaluate: Why Countries Need It

Linda Morra-Imas and Ray C. Rist

9609: Investing In the Reuse of Treated Wastewater

Chris Scott, Salah Darghouth and Ariel Dinar

9608: Enhancing Capacity for Knowledge Transfer

Nicholas Gorjestani

9607: Investing in Smallholder Irrigation

Jon Naugle, Daniel Sellen, Salah Darghouth and Ariel Dinar

9606: Monitoring and Evaluating the Poverty Impacts of Agricultural Water Investments

Mona Sur

9605: Intellectual Property Rights in the Breeding Industry: Farmers’ Interests

Niels Louwaars, Rob Tripp and Derek Eaton

9604: Public Research in Plant Breeding and Intellectual Property Rights: A Call for New Institutional Policies

Niels Louwaars, Rob Tripp and Derek Eaton

9603: Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Breeding and Rural Development: Challenges for Agricultural Policymakers

Rob Tripp, Niels Louwaars and Derek Eaton

9602: Madagascar: Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project

P. C. Mohan

9601: Bankable Assets: Africa Faces Many Obstacles in Developing Financial Systems

Jakob Christensen, Anne-Marie Gulde and Catherine Pattillo

9600: The Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF): Owning the Process of Measuring Impact and Achieving Results

N.M. Lenneiye

9599: Uganda: Local Government Development Program

P. C. Mohan

9598: Citizen Oversight through Social Accountability: The Malawi Social Action Fund and the Comprehensive Community Scorecard Process

Murphy Kajumi

9596: Ghana: The Village Infrastructure Project

World Bank

9595: Addressing Unequal Economic Opportunities: A Case Study of Land Tenure in Ghana

World Bank

9594: Functional Foods: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries

Melissa Williams, Eija Pehu and Catherine Ragasa

9593: Can Water Undermine Growth? Evidence from Ethiopia

Claudia Sadoff

9592: The Transport Sector: A Laboratory for Good Practices in Capacity Development?

Deborah Davis

9591: Malawi - The Emergency Drought Recovery Project

P.C. Mohan

9590: Malawi: Some Targeting Methods in Public Works Programs

World Bank

9589: Grants for Income Generation

Anne Ritchie

9588: On “Inequality Traps” and Development Policy

Vijayendra Rao

9587: Tanzania - River Basin Management and Smallholder Irrigation Project

P.C. Mohan

9586: Cameroon - The National Agricultural Extension and Research Program Support Project

World Bank

9585: Linking Individual, Organizational, and Institutional Capacity Building to Results

Thomas Vinod

9584: The Northern Uganda Social Action Fund: Community Reconciliation and Conflict Management Empower Communities in a Post-Conflict Setting

World Bank

9583: Senegal: The National Rural Infrastructure Project (NRIP)

P.C. Mohan

9582: Can Private Sector Action Tackle Corruption?

Frannie Léautier, Djordjija Petkoski and Michael Jarvis

9581: South-South Capacity Development: The Way to Grow?

Ajay Tejasvi

9580: Burkina Faso: The Post-Primary Education Project

P.C. Mohan

9579: Decentralizing Infrastructure Services: Lessons from the East Asia Experience

Elisa Muzzini

9578: Zambia: The Enterprise Development Project

P.C. Mohan

9577: Restructuring Uganda’s Coffee Industry: Why Going Back to the Basics Matters

John Baffes

9576: Measuring Corruption: Myths and Realities

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

9575: Ethiopia: The Energy II Project

P. C. Mohan

9574: Challenges for New Leadership Teams in Fragile States

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

9573: Africa’s Growing Soil Fertility Crisis: What Role For Fertilizer?

Jonathan Agwe, Michael Morris and Erick Fernabdes

9572: Ghana: The AIDS Response Project (GARFUND)

P. C. Mohan

9571: Fighting Corruption the Celtel Way: Lessons from the Front Line

Mohamed Ibrahim

9570: A Market-Based Approach to Capacity Development: How Uganda's Local Governments are Breaking New Ground

Mark Nelson

9569: Enticing Investors: To Make a Serious Dent in Poverty, Africa Must Attract More Foreign Capital

World Bank

9568: Tanzania - The Rural and Micro Financial Services Project

P. C. Mohan

9567: Capacity Development in the World Bank Group: A Review of Nonlending Approaches

Nansia Constantinou

9566: Process Monitoring in Andhra Pradesh: An Award-Winning Innovation in Project Supervision

Parmesh Shah, Shweta S. Banerjee and Gunnar Larson

9565: Returning Young Mexican Farmers to the Land

Frederic de Dinechin and Gunnar Larson

9564: Senegal - Nutrition Enhancement Program (NEP) First Phase

P. C. Mohan

9563: Building Infrastructure and Social Capital in Rural Egypt

Ayat Soliman and Gunnar Larson

9562: MFI Capital Structure Decision Making: A Call for Greater Awareness

Rani Deshpande, Camilla Nestor and Julie Abrams