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    Innovative Pro-Poor Healthcare Financing and Delivery Models

    Results for Development Institute, 2009
    In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care.
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    How can pastoralists adapt to climate change?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to unpredictable environments for thousands of years. But poverty and a lack of basic services reduce their ability to cope with climate change. Whether pastoralists can adapt to, or take advantage of, climate change depends on how governments and donors support them to tackle the challenges.
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    Worker retention in human resources for health: catalysing and tracking change

    The Capacity Project, 2009
    There is increasingly widespread commitment to initiatives to attract and retain skilled workers, especially in rural areas. Retention continues to be a serious challenge in the human resources for health (HRH) crisis. This brief from the Capacity Project updates and documents a previously published resource paper and technical brief which focus on the area of worker retention.
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    The Global Fund: managing great expectations

    The Lancet, 2004
    This paper published in the Lancet, tracks early implementation experiences of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four African countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Interim findings are based on interviews with 137 national-level respondents. The paper finds that: 
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    Improving health services and strengthening health systems: adopting and implementing innovative strategies - an exploratory review in twelve countries

    World Health Organization, 2006
    In recent years, a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, the World Health Organization(WHO) commissioned this exploratory study to examine more closely the track record of these strategies in twelve low-income countries.
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    HIV and child development: need for more research in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    As Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment (HAART) becomes more available in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), deaths from childhood HIV cases are likely to decrease. HIV infection can impair child development and cause long-term disability.
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    Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.
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    What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment has failed because the policies have sidestepped the developmental needs of Africa.
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    Community self-mobilisation to end open defecation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    With the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, communities analyse their sanitation conditions, understand the impact of open defecation on health and the environment, and take collective action to end open defecation (OD).
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    Rich meets poor – an international fairness experiment

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    While poverty-focused campaigns such as the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals argue their case in terms of charity, others, including fair trade initiatives, attempt to appeal to people’s sense of justice. But which approach is more persuasive? The Chr.

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