- Knowledge and Information for Food Security in Africa: from traditional Media to the Internet
- Communication for Development, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998
- Draws on experiences with a range of communication technologies in Africa - from traditional media to the Internet - to examine the important role of knowledge and information for food security.
- Researchers identify a simple, inexpensive drug regimen that is highly effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, 1999
- A joint Uganda-U.S. study has found a highly effective and safe drug regimen for preventing transmission of HIV from an infected mother to her newborn that is more affordable and practical than any other examined to date. Interim resu...
- The Progress of Nations Report 1999
- The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
- Focuses on the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on children, while celebrating the enormous strides that have brought the world so close to the eradication of polio.
- The State of the World's Children Report 1999
- United Nations Children's Fund, 1999
- Calls for an expansion of the education revolution that is occurring throughout the world. This revolution has two standards -- access to high-quality learning and a child rights approach. The report highlights key examples both of in...
- Debt relief for Rwanda: an opportunity for peace-building and reconstruction
- Oxfam, 1999
- Paper is prompted by a growing concern that an unsustainable debt burden is one of the factors which jeopardise reconstruction efforts in Rwanda, and that debt relief could be a crucial element of a wider strategy of international eng...
- Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition
- O. Galor; D.N. Weil / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1998
- Develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growt...
- Asia and the Pacific into the 21st Century: Prospects for Social Development
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1998
- Reviews the progress in social development in the region, and identifies priority issues requiring attention. The study contains two parts. Part One presents an overview of the prospects for social development in Asia and the P...
- Balancing sweatshop ethics and economics
- L. Hartman; B. Shaw; R. Stevenson / University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, 1999
- The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations. The paper seeks to find a balance between the developmental needs of ...
- What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
- Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human ...
- Macro Trends and Determinates of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
- A. Naseem; V. Kelly / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
- Reviews the the dynamics of fertilizer use in Africa, specifically with regards to the trends in fertilizer consumption at the continental, regional and country level and the factors associated with changes in fertilizer use. F...
- A New Role for Men: Partners for Women's Empowerment
- United Nations Population Fund, 1999
- This booklet calls for men to assume their responsibilities as fathers and play a decisive role as supportive parents and husbands. Broader men's involvement in fatherhood is a key to empowering women and to improving the bond between...
- An Overview of Selected Curable Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
- This document contains WHO estimates of the prevalence and incidence of some of the curable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), based on information published in the world scientific literature and in WHO archives. The methodology u...
- 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...
- 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.
