- How can intersectoral partnerships of government, business and civil society stregthen national education systems?
- K. Tietjen / US Agency for International Development, 2000
- The study provides an overview of how and to what extent the religious, business and media sectors have supported girls' education in developing countries in order to understand their role in and potential for supporting girls' educat...
- Does Participatory Poverty Assessment improve the effectiveness of poverty reduction policy?
- A. Norton / Overseas Development Institute, 2001
- This article takes a critical look at participatory poverty assessment (PPA) as a methodology and investigates the use of this methodology in various case-studies. The article: summarises key findings from recent...
- The Global Fund - a cure for Africa’s failing health systems?
- C. Simms; M. Rowson; S. Peattie / Save the Children Fund, 2001
- World leaders are discussing a multi-billion dollar package of initiatives aimed at tackling major diseases in poor countries. However, economic crisis and unsuccessful reforms in the past two decades have left many nations with faili...
- Recommendations for JPPIs to improve child access to health care
- A. Heaton. / Save the Children Fund, 2001
- Paper asks: to what extent can new forms of international co-operation in the field of health, so-called public private partnerships, meet children's rights? Paper examines four characteristics of joint public private initiatives (JPP...
- Recommendations for an improved response to the HIV epidemic
- E. Ireland; D. Webb / Save the Children Fund, 2001
- Report looks at how the AIDS epidemic is affecting children and young people, what is being done to address the consequences of the epidemic, and possible ways forward Paper addresses the UN Declaration of Commitment to combatt...
- What gender-related issues have emerged as a result of transition in Mongolia?
- B. Robinson; A. Solongo / School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham, 2000
- This article asks two questions in relation to the abrupt political and economic transitions in Mongolia: Firstly, why does gender matter in economics? Secondly, what gender-related issues have emerged as a result of transition in Mon...
- Community and individual-level attitudes towards livestock-keeping greatly impact the outcome of restocking projects
- C. Heffernan; F. Miturelli; L. Nielsen / Livestock Development Studies Group, 2001
- This article investigates the development of decision support tools for pastoral restocking projects. The study focuses on how community and individual-level attitudes and values regarding livestock-keeping influenced the outcome of r...
- Was OXFAM (Kenya)'s relief work in Wajir successful?
- M. Buchanan-Smith; D. Barton / Oxfam, 1999
- OXFAM (UK & I) Kenya was engaged in relief work in Wajir District from September 1996 until October 1998. These interventions were undertaken in response to a series of natural disasters including both the drought of 1996/97 and t...
- Implementing the 20/20 initiative
- United Nations Children's Fund, 1997
- During the first half of the 1990s, goals and targets for infant mortality, child malnutrition, adult literacy and other social indicators were set at landmark world summits and global conferences. The report by the Development Assist...
- Zambia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture
- J.G. Copestake / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
- Main purpose of this report is to present a balanced assessment of prospects for sustainable growth in smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the light of recent reforms. Given their historical underdevelopment in Zambia, and policy emp...
- Malaysian Family Life Surveys (MFLS)
- RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999
- The MFLS comprise a pair of surveys with partially overlapping samples, designed by RAND and administered in Peninsular Malaysia in 1976-77 (MFLS-1) and 1988-89 (MFLS-2). Fieldwork for MFLS-1 was carried out by Survey Research Malaysi...
- Indonesian Family Life Surveys (IFLS)
- RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999
- The Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) is a household and community-facility survey conducted in Indonesia in 1993 by Lembaga Demografi of the University of Indonesia, and RAND. The IFLS was conducted in 13 provinces, encompassing a...
- The UN's Role in Grant-financed Development: Is there a Funding Crisis?
- Overseas Development Institute, 1997
- This Briefing Paper describes the evolution of the UN's work in development, assesses its contribution to global assistance efforts, and explains how its main components have been financed in the past (and how financial support is cha...
- Ancestor Spirits and Land Reforms: Contradictory discourses and practices on rights on land in South India
- Y Uchiyamada / Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, 1999
- This paper is about Untouchable ancestors' strong emotional attachment to their ancestral land. Ancestrors of Untouchables remain in their ancestral land at the margin of the village, whereas ancestors of high castes leave for the abo...
- Non-communicable diseases are already public health challenges in all regions
- C.J.L. Murray; A.D. Lopez / The Lancet, 1997
- Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury. Medically certified information is available for less than 30 perc...
- Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study
- C.J.L. Murray; A.D. Lopez / ProCor, 1997
- Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the public-health importance of these has been hampered by the lack of commo...
- Human face or human facade: adjustment and the health of mothers and children
- A. Costello; F. Watson; D. Woodward / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1994
- Report considers the effects of strutucal adjustment programmes on the health sector . Includes an annotated bibliography
- Does better nutrition improve academic achievement? Yes
- World Bank Policy and Research Bulletin, 1997
- And it must start in infancy. Better-nourished children perform better in school than less well-nourished children, partly because they enter school earlier and have more time to learn and partly because they learn more productively
- Integrating gender into emergency responses (BRIDGE)
- BRIDGE, 1999
- Reaching the unreached: challenges [water and sanitation] for the 21st Century (WEDC Conference)
- Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1999
- 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.
