The Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF), which began implementation in 1996, was proposed by the Government of Malawi as a quick-disbursing poverty alleviation facility that would be based on and respond to the needs and demands of the country's poor rural communities. The country's experience...

The reform, a key component of a larger economic recovery and adjustment operation, and of the agricultural sector strategy, focused on the liberalization of coffee and cocoa prices, their primary marketing and export, all previously regulated by a marketing board. The main objectives of the...

Monitoring Africa's development progress and aid flows requires basic empirical data that can be readily used by analysts. African development indicators 1997, a World Bank publication, provide a starting point for accomplishing that task. This revised and expanded statistical collection...

TechnoServe (TNS) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1968 and has programs in 14 countries in Africa, Latin America and Central Europe. The Ghana program was established in 1971. TechnoServe's mission is to establish sustainable community-based enterprises that increase...

The Guinea National Agricultural Services Project's overall development objective is to improve nationwide agricultural productivity and production, incomes of farmers and food security. Initiated in 1996, the food security component of this project was undertaken in conjunction with the Food...

This has to be accomplished against a background of high illiteracy rates, rapidly growing populations, low and erratic rainfall, inherently infertile soils, and development strategies which have had a strong urban bias. Under such conditions, traditional production systems are unable to sustain...

The Sahelian Operational Review (SOR) is a Bank-managed activity, funded by the Government of Norway, that has been in existence since 1990. The objectives of the program were to accelerate the application of operational lessons from natural resources management projects and to seek better...

The key objective of the Guinea Public Expenditure Review (PER) was the improvement of Guinea's public resource management through more efficient allocations and enhanced budget process. Innovative features of the first Bank-assisted PER report for Guinea included costing out of priority...

Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been promoting reforms to help regional integration for effective transport services. The study indicated the need for better traffic management, in general, and, specifically, to face up to the growing congestion problem in the capital cities....

Participants from Australia to Zambia attended the HIV prevention works, an official satellite symposium of the Eleventh International Conference on AIDS, held on July 6, 1996 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The symposium highlighted what works in HIV prevention, why sound HIV prevention...