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Make development inclusive: how to include the perspectives of persons with disabilities in the project cycle management guidelines of the EC
Make Development Inclusive: mainstreaming disability in development cooperation, 2008Although one in five of the world’s poorest people are disabled, disability itself has not been included in world leaders’ plans to meet the millennium development goals. This manual is designed to be used during the project management process.DocumentThe Global Fund: managing great expectations
The Lancet, 2004This 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:DocumentImproving health services and strengthening health systems: adopting and implementing innovative strategies - an exploratory review in twelve countries
World Health Organization, 2006In 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.DocumentTurnover of health professionals in the general hospitals in West Nile region
Health Policy and Development Journal, 2008This paper, published in Health Policy and Development journal, compares the attrition rates of health professionals in three private not-for-profit and three government general hospitals in West Nile Region, Uganda, between 1999 and 2004. It also examines the destination to which the health professionals were lost, the reasons for their leaving and the source of new staff.DocumentHealth workers for all and all for health workers
Global health workforce alliance, 2008The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action was formulated at the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health that was held in Kampala, Uganda in March 2008. It recognises the need for immediate action to resolve the accelerating crisis in the global health workforce including the global shortage of over four million health workers that are needed to deliver essential health care.DocumentFood assistance programming in the context of HIV
Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes.DocumentManaging the health Millennium Development Goals - the challenge of management strengthening: lessons from three countries
World Health Organization, 2007This World Health Organization study describes various activities aimed towards strengthening the management of health service delivery in three countries: South Africa, Togo and Uganda.DocumentPower to the people: evidence from a randomised field experiment of a community based monitoring project in Uganda.
Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2007This paper presents a randomised field experiment on increasing community-based monitoring. It particularly focuses on looking at whether access to, and quality of health care can be improved by strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens. Key points include:DocumentPoverty and user fees for public health care in low-income countries: lessons from Uganda and Cambodia
The Lancet, 2006This Lancet article examines two countries efforts towards making access to health care more equitable. It compares the abolition of user fees in Uganda and the establishment of health equity funds in Cambodia and identifies key issues that national policy makers should consider when making pro-poor policy choices for health-care finance.DocumentYouthLens No. 21: Integrating reproductive health and HIV services for youth
YouthNet, Family Health International, 2007Often health services for young people address contraception or prevention of HIV/STIs, but not both. Would an integrated approach to sexual health services reduce unwanted pregnancies and HIV/STIs among young people? This briefing paper reports on the findings of a series of studies that examined this question.Pages
