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  The public budget and maternal mortality in Mexico: an overview of the experience

  International Budget Partnership, 2004

  During 2002, Fundar, a center for analysis and research working on budget issues in Mexico, engaged in a project aimed at evaluating the extent to which public resources were being allocated to the reduction of maternal mortality.
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  CRC general comment number 1: the aims of education

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2001

  This General Comment document from the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Committee on the Rights of the Child focuses on the aims of education as set out on article 29 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
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  Community assessment and planning for maternal and child health programs: a participatory approach in Ethiopia

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 1998

  This paper from BASICS II reports on the use of a participatory approach to community assessment in five communities in Ethiopia. The purpose of the assessment was for government health staff and community members to jointly identify and prioritise maternal and child health problems and develop a plan to solve them.
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  Committed to health for all? How the G7/G8 rate

  Social Science and Medicine, 2004

  This article, published in Social Science and Medicine, reports on progress towards the goal of health for all, with specific reference to international development commitments made by the G7/G8 nations at the 1999, 2000 and 2001 summits. It argues that the limited progress toward achieving health for all derives largely from the failure of G8 nations to fulfil their development commitments.
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  Monitoring and evaluation of decentralization reforms in developing country health sectors

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  The purpose of this paper, from Partners for Health Sector Reform/plus, is to provide planners, policymakers and researchers with guidance on measuring and evaluating decentralisation reforms in the health sector. The paper presents basic information on the rationales and definitions of different forms of decentralisation, as well as country experiences with health sector decentralisation.
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  Contracting for primary health services: evidence on its effects and a framework for evaluation

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  This paper, produced by Partnerships for Health Sector Reform/plus, discusses the effectiveness of contracting out primary care services as a tool for health reform. The paper provides a short history of contracting out, a discussion of its advantages and disadvantages, and a review of the available literature on the impact of contracting out.
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  A school for children with rights: the significance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child for modern education policy

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 1998

  This document provides the text of the 1997 UNICEF Innocenti lecture. It discusses the key messages of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) relating to education and asks what contribution these make to discussions about educational reform.
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  Mortality study in Guinea: investigating the causes of death in children under 5

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2002

  This paper, produced by Save the Children and the BASICS II project, reports on a mortality investigation conducted in Mandiana prefecture, Guinea among children under five years of age.
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  Fending for themselves: Afghan refugee children and adolescents working in urban Pakistan

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2002

  This report documents the findings of a Women’s commission mission to identify the protection and care concerns of refugee Afghan children, adolescents and youth working and living in urban settings in Pakistan. Urban refugee communities in Pakistan have been neglected by the international humanitarian community.
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  Making pregnancy safer: the critical role of the skilled attendant: a joint statement by WHO, ICM and FIGO

  Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization (WHO), 2004

  In this joint statement, the World Health Organization, ICM and FIGO make the case for skilled attendants in childbirth. They assert that women need a continuum of care in childbearing to ensure the best possible health outcome for themselves and their newborns. They argue that the skilled attendant has a pivotal role in this continuum of care.

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