- Family Planning: A Development Success Story
- Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994
- This booklet, which was prepared in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau, is based on the World Bank publication Effective Family Planning Programs.
- Working Document on Health and Family Planning Indicators: A Tool for Results Frameworks
- Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1999
- Draws on technical reviews of USAID mission documents, with the aim of providing an introduction to the results framework (a hierarchical model consisting of strategic objective, supporting intermediate results, and key performance in...
- Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000
- Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the overwhelming source of HIV infection in young children. Of the 3 million infants infected with HIV since the beginning of the pandemic, about 90% have been born in Africa. However, the number...
- Gender Bias and the “Marriage Squeeze” in China, South Korea and India 1920-1990: The Effects of War, Famine and Fertility Decline
- M. Das Gupta; S Li / Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1997
- China, South Korea and Northern India have commonalities in their kinship systems which make for discrimination against female children. Discrimination was heightened by war, famine and fertility decline. During 1920-90, India has had...
- World Health Report 1998
- World Health Organization, 1998
- Report provides the latest expert assessment of the global health situation, and uses that as a basis for projecting health trends to the year 2025. Examining the entire human life span, and sifting data gathered in the past 50 years,...
- By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume IV: Consumer Labels and Child Labor
- International Child Labor Program, USA, 1997
- Analyzes voluntary efforts, particularly labeling initiatives, to inform consumers that measures are being taken to prevent the use of child labor in the production of hand-knotted carpets, leather footwear, footballs and tea.
- Report on labour practices in Burma
- International Child Labor Program, USA, 1998
- Surveys, analyzes, and summarizes the major allegations US concerning labor practices in Burma. Addresses allegations of child labor practices, workers' rights, the forced relocation of laborers, and the use of forced labor to support...
- By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume V: Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor
- International Child Labor Program, USA, 1999
- provides an assessment of the child labor situation in 16 countries.4 It reviews the extent and nature of child labor in these countries and establishes a framework that can be used in future studies to evaluate progress in eliminatin...
- The potential of the military in environmental protection in India (D'Souza / Unasylva)
- Unasylva, FAO, 1999
- What factors govern family size?
- D. Nayab / Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 1999
- Demand for high number of children is believed to be a major reason for high fertility levels in Pakistan. The present report, based on a micro-study, investigates the fertility preferences and fertility behaviour of the women, and ho...
- Fighting an Uphill Battle: Population Pressure and Declining Land Productivity in Rwanda.
- D.C. Clay / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1996
- Report draws attention to the structure of landholding as a set of mechanisms through which demographic changes in agrarian societies can alter the natural environment: demographically-induced change in the structure o...
- The User-Service Interface in Disability Programmes in Low Income Countries: the Negotiation of Values
- C. Leather / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999
- Since the rise of the primary care movement in the 1970's the old model of institutional rehabilitation for disabled children has been replaced by a community-based approach. The practice of community-based approaches to disability ha...
- Health education for mothers in developing countries: with special emphasis on the impact of health education interventions on health outcomes during the perinatal period and early infancy.
- A. Bolam; D. Tillen; A. Costello / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999
- The working paper had two objectives: (1) To review concisely key issues in the definition, design and evaluation of health education interventions especially with regards to mother and child health (2) To present an annotated bibliog...
- Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares
- Doris J. Jansen; Andrew Rukovo / OECD Development Centre, 1992
- The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural poli...
- Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: Prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis document the for International Conference on Child Labour, Oslo, 27-30 October 1997
- United Nations Children's Fund, 1997
- The present synthesis document attempts to draw together the information and the arguments presented in the various papers that have been prepared for the Oslo Conference on Child Labour in order to provide an overview of the present ...
- UNICEF statistical tables on child / social welfare
- United Nations Children's Fund, 1999
- Country level statistical data on major child welfare issues, including life expectancy, crude birth and death rates, infant mortality rates, child growth rates, ORT usage, maternal mortality, fertility rate, GNP, education (enrollmen...
- Practical Action to Eliminate Child Labour: background paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
- International Labour Organization, 1997
- Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
- International Labour Organization, 1997
- Trafficking and prostitution: the growing exploitation of migrant women from central and Eastern Europe
- International Organization for Migration, 1995
- The trafficking of women from East to West is increasing rapidly. This form of exploitation and abuse of human rights is no longer confined to women from developing countries. Increasingly women from Central and Eastern European count...
- Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF)
- RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999
- The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish, was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, p...
- Global Unification the Gambia (GU)
- Global Unification The Gambia (GU) is a chapter of Global Unification International (GUI) in Australia. It is a youth-led research and development, non-political, non-religious, tax exempted charitable, association established in 2006 at the University of the Gambia. In partnership with relevant institutions, its mission is to provide education, skills and strengthen the capacity of yo...
- Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
- The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children. CPAG works to produce evidence about the causes and effects of poverty on children and their families. It examines how Government policies affect children and families. CPAG publishes reports, makes submissions and conducts small-scale researc...
- Earth Child Institute (ECI)
- Earth Child Institute is committed to combating climate change, deforestation and water scarcity. By investing in hands-on environment and educational projects with and for children, both in and out of schools. Its goal is to engage with and support empowerment of the world’s 2.2 billion people under the age of 18 to plant trees, ensure access to safe water, sanitation, clean energy and nutr...
- Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE)
- The Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) was founded in 2006 and has been working in the coastal region of Kenya. It was established to address democratic governance, socio?economic and youth concerns with a focus on the coast of Kenya.
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- Countdown to 2015
- The Countdown to 2015 Initiative tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality.It calls on governments and development partners to be accountable, identifies knowledge gaps and proposes new actions to reach Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. The Countdown Initiative is a supra-institu...
- UNICEF Bangladesh
- The UNICEF Bangladesh country office work in partnership with government ministries, non-government organisations, UN agencies and a wide range of donors in order to solve the problems facing children in Bangladesh. Specifically, UNICEF Bangladesh works on: education health and nutrition protection...
- Global Health Promotion
- Global Health Promotion, is the official publication of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). It is a multilingual journal, which publishes authoritative peer-reviewed articles and practical information for a world-wide audience of professionals interested in health promotion and health education. The title was formerly known as Promotion & Education.
- BASICS fragile and post-conflict states publications
- As part of a multi-donor exercise to deepen the international development community's understanding of health programming in post conflict and fragile environments, BASICS authored a series of papers to distill current thinking and share lessons learned. This website page provides access to the titles of and links to these papers.
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
