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The state of the World’s toilets 2007
Wateraid, 2007This report by Water Aid examines the global crisis in sanitation and sets out what needs to be done to achieve universal sanitation. The report argues that diseases caused by lack of adequate sanitation and water are the second biggest killer of children in the world.DocumentStructures, regimes and wellbeing
ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007This paper explains the approach taken by the Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) ESRC research group to explore the ways in which wider societal structures manifest themselves in the social and cultural construction of wellbeing.DocumentPro-poor participative practices in Pakistan: an analysis of typology of community participation in social action program (1992-2001) (public submission)
International Conference on Engaging Communities, 2005Why did Pakistan’s Social Action Program (SAP) not achieve its desired outcome? This paper analyses the structural features and nature of community participation in both phases of the SAP at the levels of programme planning and implementation. For this purpose, secondary literature has been used.DocumentOff the map: how HIV/AIDS programming is failing same-sex practising people in Africa
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2007This report from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) explores the ways in which governments, international donors and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) are denying basic human rights protection to same-sex practicing Africans.DocumentDecentralization and service delivery
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005Dissatisfied with centralised approaches to delivering local public services, a large number of countries are decentralising responsibility for these services to lower- level, locally elected governments, with mixed results.DocumentThe Global Fund Secretariat’s suspension of funding to Uganda: how could this have been avoided?
Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2006This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that the suspension of funding to Uganda from the Global Fund could have been avoided. The article outlines how the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) suspended five grants to Uganda following an audit report that exposed gross mismanagement in the Project Management Unit.DocumentGlobal Corruption Report 2006: corruption and health
Transparency International, 2006This report, published by Transparency International, looks at the causes, scale and nature of corruption in health care, and considers ways to tackle it. Chapters include: corruption in hospitals and in the pharmaceutical sector; informal payments for health care; links with HIV and AIDS; and a number of country reports and recent research papers.DocumentThe equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005
UN, 2005This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.DocumentGlobal health watch 2005/06: an alternative world health report
Global Health Watch, 2005Published by the Global Health Watch Secretariat, the Global Health Watch 2005/06 is the first “alternative world health report”, written from the perspective of civil society. It challenges the world’s major health institutions, addresses the causes of global inequality, and sets out measures for achieving adequate and equitable health for all.