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  Sex work toolkit: targeted HIV/AIDS prevention and care in sex work settings

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This WHO toolkit is intended as a resource to guide the development and implementation of effective HIV interventions in diverse sex work settings and is aimed at anyone who works in HIV prevention in these settings. The first section of the toolkit provides an introduction and context for HIV interventions in sex work.
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  Community contribution to TB care: practice and policy

  World Health Organization, 2003

  The dramatic increase in tuberculosis (TB) cases in recent years, driven by the HIV epidemic in much of sub-Saharan Africa, has meant that very few national TB programmes (NTPs) are achieving adequate TB case detection rates and treatment outcomes.
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  Survey tools for assessing performance in service delivery

  Public Sector Governance, World Bank, 2003

  This chapter examines the usefulness of two micro-economic level surveys, the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) and Quantitative Service Delivery Survey (QSDS) in assessing service delivery.
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  Engendering budgets: a practitioners’ guide to understanding and implementing gender-responsive budgets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003

  This guide, from the Commonwealth Secretariat, is intended to help practitioners design and implement gender-responsive budgets (GRB). The first part of the guide provides background information on GRBs. Part two outlines how to implement a government budget, as well the budget process and potential entry points for beginning gender budget work.
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  Regulatory impact assessment in developing countries: research issues

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2001

  Effective regulation is needed to facilitate private sector development and pro-poor growth. Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) provides a method for assessing the positive and negative impacts of existing or potential regulatory measures, but there is little evidence of its use in developing countries.
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  What’s behind the budget? Politics, rights and accountability in the budget process

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This Overseas Development Institute (ODI) paper looks at ways in which a rights approach can contribute to strengthening pro-poor voice and outcomes in budget processes. The paper reviews different conceptual approaches for addressing issues of human rights, entitlements, political accountability and citizen participation in relation to the budget process.
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  Imaginative thinking for better regulation

  Cabinet Office, 2003

  When faced with a new problem like a health risk, governments will introduce a new “rule” that requires specific behaviours. Yet a broader examination of the options may reveal a more efficient and effective alternative.
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  Effective drug regulation: what can countries do?

  World Health Organization, 1999

  Despite efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO), and other international organisations to improve drug regulation at national and international levels, drug regulation is weak or non-existent in many developing countries. Consequently, the market circulation of substandard drugs remains a serious concern.
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  Public expenditure management handbook

  World Bank, 1998

  Public expenditure issues arise wherever there is a discussion of government, the public sector, and development. Continuing poor budget performance in many countries has prompted the World Bank to produce this handbook.
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  An approach to classifying human resources constraints to attaining health-related Millennium Development Goals

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This study explores the constraints related to human resources in the health (HRH) sector to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in low-income countries. The author finds that, at an individual level, the decision to enter, remain and serve in the health sector workforce is influenced by a series of social, economic, cultural and gender-related determinants.

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