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Child Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999
This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child ...
Child labour: targeting the intolerable
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1998
Drawing on ILO action against child labour, including the experience of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC at a glance ) and other initiatives, this report chronicles the exploitation and abuse ...
Combating the most intolerable forms of child labour: A global challenge: ILO Amsterdam Child Labour Conference
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999
Opportunities for women through reproductive choice
Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Women want better lives for themselves, their children, their families, and their communities. They want to do their best in their current roles as mothers, wives, workers, and community members. Many women also want new opportunities...
Population and Development: Implications for the World Bank
Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994
Report examines the changes in population dynamics and in the policy environment that have produced this consensus and explores their policy and operational implications for the World Bank's population work. The report has five core m...
The Control of Epidemic Dysentery in Africa: Overview, recommendations, and Checklists
Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1999
Provides an overview of cholera and dysentery, followed by a brief history of dysentery epidemics in Africa, the current epidemiology, and a few of the lessons learned in other parts of the world, concluding with recommendations. Also...
The Utility of Bloodspot Technologies In Low Income Countries
J. Willumsen / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999
In recent years, blood spot techniques have been developed to provide simple, low cost and accurate ways of screening for a variety of medical problems. Since the 1960's in the developed world, the screening for inborn errors of metab...
The State of World Population 1997: the Right to Choose: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health
United Nations Population Fund, 1999
Gaps and failures in reproductive health care, combined with widespread discrimination and violence against women, amount to a massive violation of human rights. Denial of sexual and reproductive rights–including free choice with...
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...
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Adolescent girls and migration in the developing world
Population Council, USA, 2013
Migration is transforming our world: by the end of this decade, most developing countries will have more people living in cities than in rural areas. Most migrants are in their early to mid-20s. Substantial numbers of adolescent girls...
World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour
International Labour Organization, 2013
What can be done to ensure more – and faster – progress in tackling child labour? This report argues that child labour is driven in part by household vulnerabilities associated with poverty, risk and shocks, and that social ...
Open access nutrition training module
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2013
Chronic undernutrition affects nearly 200 million children in low and middle income countries, with vitamin and mineral deficiencies affecting many more, and there is strong evidence that undernutrition is associated with up to 35% of...
Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
Understanding childhood poverty as a multidimensional concept
P. Dornan; J. Boyden 2011
This paper discusses the methodology of Young Lives - a 15-year study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru, following the lives of 3,000 children in each country.  The Young Lives programme is interested in c...
What issues drive female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia?
J. Boyden; A. Pankhurst; Y. Tafere / Young Lives, 2013
Focusing on Ethiopia, this paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision. Both practices are widespread in Ethiopia and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values regulating women’s re...
Perinatal nutrition and immunity to infection
K.D.J. Jones; J.A. Berkley; J.O. Warner / PubMed Central, 2010
Epidemiological data provide strong evidence for a relationship between undernutrition and life-threatening infection in infants and children. However, the mechanisms that underlie this relationship are poorly understood. Through foet...
Factors affecting prevalence of malnutrition among children under three years of age in Botswana
S.E.O. Mahgoub; M. Nnyepi; T. Bandeke / African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2006
This study was a cross-sectional descriptive survey conducted to evaluate the level of malnutrition and the impact of some socio-economic and demographic factors of households on the nutritional status of children under 3years of age ...
Determinants of appropriate child health and nutrition practices among women in rural Gambia
M. Mwangome; A. Prentice; E. Plugge / Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2010
This study aimed at exploring the factors determining mothers’ choices of appropriate child health and nutrition practices in the Gambia. Eight focus-group discussions (FGDs) were held with 63 women whose children had been seen ...
Prevalence and Trends of Stunting Among Pre-school Children, 1990-2020
M. de Onis; M. Blossner; E. Borghi / World Health Organization, 2010
The objective of this study was to quantify the prevalence and trends of stunting among children using the WHO growth standards. 576 nationally representative surveys were analysed. Linear mixed-effects modelling was used to estimate ...
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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.
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