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    Health systems and gender in post-conflict contexts: building back better?

    Conflict and health, 2014
    The post-conflict or post-crisis period provides the opportunity for wide-ranging public sector reforms: donors fund rebuilding and reform efforts, social norms are in a state of flux, and the political climate may be conducive to change. This reform period presents favourable circumstances for the promotion of gender equity in multiple social arenas, including the health system.
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    Helpdesk Report: Delivery of education at scale to large refugee and conflict affected populations

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    The existing evidence regarding how to deliver education at scale to large refugee and conflict affected populations is somewhat limited. Much of the literature appears to be in the form of best practice or policy advice, based on previous experience, rather than results based on monitoring and evaluation of interventions.
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    Ebola and lessons for development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    As the Ebola crisis continues to unfold across West Africa and the international community belatedly responds, broader questions arise beyond the immediate challenges on the ground. These fundamentally challenge our understanding of ‘development’ as framed and practised in past decades.
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    Global governance and the limits of health security

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed the limits of the current approach to the global governance of infectious diseases, which mixes public health and security interests. International efforts to strengthen ‘health security’ quickly faltered when confronted with weak national health systems.
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    Return of the rebel: legacies of war and reconstruction in West Africa’s Ebola epidemic

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The spread of Ebola in West Africa centres on a region with a shared recent history of transnational civil war and internationally led post-conflict reconstruction efforts. This legacy of conflict and shortcomings in the reconstruction efforts are key to understanding how the virus has spread. The dynamics of warfare tied into and accentuated the state’s remoteness from many people.
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    Ebola and extractive industry

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The most important sector is mining as these three countries share a rich iron ore geological beltway.
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    Spotlight on organisations: gender and violence in Latin America

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Despite many countries in Latin American and the Caribbean having enacted laws against domestic violence, many women in the region continue to be failed by the legal system. This Spotlight presents some of the most important Latin American organisations working in innovative ways to promote women’s rights and to prevent violence against women.
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    Spotlight on publications: access to justice for women victims of sexual violence

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    This Spotlight presents key publications documenting sexual violence perpetrated against women in the context of armed conflicts in Latin America.
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    Spotlight on publications: femicide in Latin America

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The publications included in this Spotlight provide an overview of the magnitude and dimensions of femicide in Latin America, including the important factors that produce and sustain this phenomenon such as socio-economic context, and discrimination.
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    The silent dangers of quarrying

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    Quarrying contributes significantly to the Philippines' infrastructure and overall economic development. Notwithstanding its importance, however, it is a major natural resource extractive sector that causes significant environmental problems. And the sooner we understand the nature and extent of its destruction and be able to do something to address it, the better.

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