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  Private sector participation in child health: a review of World Bank projects, 1993-2002

  World Bank, 2003

  Based on the assumption that the private sector significantly influences child health and nutrition outcomes through both service provision and supply of health related goods, this paper analyses World Bank projects in Health, Nutrition and Population between fiscal years 1993-2002.
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  Reducing child mortality in India: keeping up the pace

  World Bank, 1999

  This study asks: Is the apparent stagnation in India’s child mortality rate real or simply due to irregularities in the data? If the stagnation is taking place, what factors are behind it?
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  Sustaining the benefits: a field guide for sustaining reproductive and child health services

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This Guide is a reference for NGO leaders, board members and program managers who wish to build enduring community-based programmes. It explains the term “sustainability” and accompanies readers through a process of transforming that understanding into organisational action.
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  Adolescent sexuality and reproductive health in Benue State, Nigeria

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2002

  CEDPA/Nigeria is supporting a Vulnerable Children’s Project (VCP) in Otukpo town and in two rural communities in Benue State, Nigeria.
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  What they don't know can hurt them: how school-based reproductive health programmes can help adolescents lead healthy reproductive lives

  Training and Research Support Centre, 2000

  This paper is intended to help parents, educators and policy makers understand the elements of good practice in school-based reproductive health programmes in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe has reached a national consensus that reproductive health teaching should be provided during classroom time, beginning with primary school, before voluntary sexual activity has begun.
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  Genetic endowments, parental and child health in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper examines the determinants of child health in rural Ethiopia for the period 1994-97 using height-for-age z-scores as measures of long-term health.The panel nature of the data helps to control for community, household and individual level heterogeneity. Unlike most previous studies, the influence of parental health on children is examined.
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  Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper explores the long-term consequences of shocks on children’s health and education using longitudinal data from rural Zimbabwe.
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Andhra Pradesh, India

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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  Cost effective and easy to handle methods for program design and evaluation in sexual and reproductive health programs for youths

  African Networks for Health Research and Development, 1999

  This document describes the two quantitative methods which have proven their usefulness in addressing sexual health issues amongst young people in primary and secondary schools, and assesses their relative merit.
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  Capacity-building resources in youth sexual and reproductive health

  Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, 2003

  These training materials, drawing on a series of workshops in Asia undertaken by the Network's project, use interactive methods to cover all aspects of Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (YSRH) programming, from state-of-the-art behaviour change activities to the need for monitoring and evaluation to provide evidence of success.The series of four five-day workshops were designed so that each

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