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61: Education in Mongwe, Tanzania: a case study assessing education access and quality: Jade Snels, Karina Villanueva Calderon, Fiona Ward Shaw, Doreen Kyando, Solomon Mwije, Nathalie Holvoet, Sara Dewachter, Rajab Mgonja, Ephrahim Mchukwa, Ezekiel Obunde, Agripina Masashua, Saraphina Lukelo, Emmanuel Singu and Michael Nicodemus
60: Vulnerability, resilience, and integration of elderly South Sudanese refugees in Uganda: a case study of Pagirinya settlement in Adjumani district: Samuel Opono and Frank Ahimbisibwe
59: Occupational health and safety risks in artisanal and small-scale mining: Philippe Dunia Kabunga, Sara Geenen and Anuarite Bashizi
58: Quand les experts contextuels se réunissent… Une recherche collective pour les incarcérations irrégulières à la Prison Centrale de Makala (Kinshasa: Denis Augustin Samnick, Sara Liwerant, Tom De Herdt and Albert Malukisa Nkuku
57: When contextual experts get together... Collective research into irregular incarceration at Makala Central Prison (Kinshasa): Denis Augustin Samnick, Sara Liwerant, Tom De Herdt and Albert Malukisa Nkuku
56: Jobs and violence: evidence from a policy experiment in DR Congo: Marijke Verpoorten and Nik Stoop
55: Delving deeper into the food security-development finance-governance quality nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa: Danny Cassimon, Olusegun Fadare and George Mavrotas
54: How to cope with a refugee population? Evidence from Uganda: Mark Marvin Kadigo
53: Mission accomplie? L’évaluation des quotas ethniques au Burundi: Alexandre Wadih Raffoul and Stef Vandeginste
52: Can universal cash transfers spur citizenship? An evaluation of Busibi CT’s impacts on (perceived) political efficacy: Filippo Grisolia, Sara Dewachter and Nathalie Holvoet
51: Conservation, conflit et exploitation minière semi-industrielle: le cas de l'est de la RDC: Verweijen Judith, Peer Schouten, Fergus O'Leary Simpson and Pascal Chakirwa Zirimwabagabo
50: Investigating the sustainability of cash transfer effects: the Busibi case: Filippo Grisolia, Sara Dewachter and Nathalie Holvoet
49: Conservation, conflict and semi-industrial mining: the case of eastern DRC: Judith Verweijen, Peer Schouten, Fergus O'Leary Simpson and Pascal Chakirwa Zirimwabagabo
48: Added value of community based monitoring (CBM): lessons from the Fuatilia Maji Project: Jenipher Biira Salamula, Josué Guerrero Calle, Sara Dewachter and Nathalie Holvoet
47: ¿Qué retos enfrenta la minería informal de oro en el Perú? Lecciones aprendidas de La Rinconada, Puno: Maria Eugenia Robles, Sara Geenen and Boris Verbrugge
46: Underground struggles: improving working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining: lessons from Mindanao, Philippines: Eugenia Robles Mengoa, Sara Geenen, Boris Verbrugge, Beverly Besmanos and Rafael López Valverde
45: “La mort, c’est la nourriture du creuseur”: le travail informel dans les mines de Shabunda et Watsa à l’Est de la RDC: Divin-Luc Bikubanya, Sara Geenen and Boris Verbrugge
44: Increasing impact of international development study experiences: Wanda Casten, Sara Dewachter, Nathalie Holvoet, Hezron Makundi and Nawanda Yahaya
43: Debt-for-climate swaps in the COVID-19 era: killing two birds with one stone?: Dennis Essers, Danny Cassimon and Martin Prowse
42: ‘For King, for Freedom and for Justice’? Comments regarding Belgium’s Congo Commission: Stefaan Marysse
41: “Le Roi, la Loi, la Liberté”? Annotations à la Commission spéciale sur le passé colonial: Stefaan Marysse
40: Flagged and tagged by ITSCI: the potential and risks of non-state supply chain regulation: Hester Postma and Sara Geenen
39: Artisanal or industrial conflict minerals?: Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten and Peter Van der Windt
38: Croyances religieuses endogènes et développement en Afrique subsaharienne: Sahawal Alidou and Marijke Verpoorten
37: Defying intuition: bigger families have no significant negative effect on children’s schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: Marijke Verpoorten and Sahawal Alidou
36: Uganda: Museveni's struggle to create legitimacy among the 'Museveni babies': Kristof Titeca
35: Urbanization and dietary change: Lara Cockx, Liesbeth Colen and Joachim De Weerdt
34: Reaching climate funding targets: the polluters aren’t paying. And green parties do not make a difference: Carola Klöck, Nadia Molenaers and Florian Weiler
33: Congo's elections and its political landscape: some key insights: Kristof Titeca and James Thamani
32: The biggest migration challenge ever: Marijke Verpoorten
31: How do illegal ivory traders operate? Field research among illegal ivory traders aims to give an answer: Kristof Titeca
30: Aid, trade, or state? The post-war recovery of the Rwandan coffee sector: Andrea Guariso and Marijke Verpoorten
29: Voodoo, vaccines and bed nets: magicoreligious beliefs affect health behavior in Benin: Nik Stoop and Marijke Verpoorten
28: Monitoring changes in intrahousehold decision-making and evaluating its impact: a toolkit: Els Lecoutere
27: La réforme constitutionnelle et la limitation du nombre de mandats présidentiels au Burundi: deux questions restées en suspens: Stef Vandeginste
26: What good is an oil sector without oil? How regime security and shorttermism explains DR Congo’s (non-)oil sector: Patrick Edmond and Kristof Titeca
25: Women in (and out of) artisanal mining: a call for revising Uganda's draft Mining and Minerals Policy: Stella Muheki and Sara Geenen
24: Burundi’s constitutional amendment: what do we know so far?: Stef Vandeginste
23: From figures to facts: making sense of socio-economic surveys in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Wim Marivoet and Tom De Herdt
22: Déjà vu? Congo from Mobutu to Kabila, twenty years later: Filip Reyntjens
21: Not your average job: measuring farm labor in Tanzania: Vellore Arthi, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Amparo Palacios-Lopez
20: The ICC Burexit: free at last? Burundi on its way out of the Rome Statute: Stef Vandeginste
19: Coopératives minières au Sud-Kivu: recours ou extorsion?: Jorden de Haan and Sara Geenen
18: Urbanization and poverty reduction: the role of secondary towns in Tanzania: Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur
17: Burundi’s crisis and the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement: which way forward?: Stef Vandeginste
16: Reduction of poverty and inequality, the Rwandan way. And the aid community loves it: Filip Reyntjens
15: Real governance and practical norms in Sub-Saharan Africa: the game of the rules: Tom De Herdt and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
14: Mining cooperatives in South Kivu: saviour or extortionist?: Jorden de Haan and Sara Geenen
13: Discours diplomatique et mandats présidentiels en Afrique centrale. Une lettre ouverte à son Excellence l'Ambassadeur de l'Allemagne au Rwanda, M. Peter Fahrenholtz: Stef Vandeginste
12: Presidential term limits and dubious diplomatic discourse. An open letter to His Excellency Peter Fahrenholtz, German Ambassador to Rwanda: Stef Vandeginste
11: Scenarios for Burundi: Filip Reyntjens
10: The social minefield of gold digging in South-Kivu, DRC. The case of Kamituga: Janvier Kilosho, Nik Stoop and Marijke Verpoorten
9: How to account for concessional loans in aid statistics?: Danny Cassimon, Robrecht Renard and Karel Verbeke
8: The final deathblow to development planning? A comparative book review of Easterly’s ‘The Tyranny of Experts’ and Ramalingam’s ‘Aid on the Edge of Chaos’: Dennis Essers and Bert Jacobs
7: Reviving Benin's shrimp export sector: the need for an integrated approach: Romain Houssa, Johan Swinnen and Marijke Verpoorten
6: Rwanda: twenty years after the genocide: Filip Reyntjens
5: Out of Garamba, into Uganda. Poaching and trade of ivory in Garamba National Park and LRA-affected areas in Congo: Kristof Titeca
4: Une nouvelle Constitution pour le Burundi? Un défi pour la Charte africaine de la démocratie, des élections et de la gouvernance: Stef Vandeginste
3: Is ‘tradition’ the solution? Lessons from Rwanda’s gacaca courts for justice and reconciliation after mass violence: Bert Ingelaere
2: Armed Conflict and Economic Performance in Rwanda: Pieter Serneels and Marijke Verpoorten
1: And what about Africa's original sins?: Dennis Essers and Danny Cassimon