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  Essential surgical care aide-memoire: surgical and emergency obstetrical care at first referral level

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This document, published by the World Health Organization, provides a set of policy guidelines and a checklist for the provision of essential surgical care in emergencies. It argues that well-organised surgical, obstetric, trauma care and anaesthetic services are essential for a district hospital to be an effective community resource.
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  The social and economic impact of South Africa’s social security system

  Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 2004

  Social grants play a critical role in reducing poverty and promoting development in South Africa. This study evaluates the socio-economic impact of various social grants including child support grants, disability grants and state pensions.
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  Promoting Gender Equality. A Resource Kit for Trade Unions

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This toolkit has been designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members and ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals . Trade unions have a role in protecting workers from all types of discrimination, including that based on gender.
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  Towards high-performing health systems: summary report

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  This report summarises the final report on the OECD Health Project, "Towards high-performing health systems." Findings reveal that health has improved due to expansion in health services, but that the costs of financing health systems will continue to rise.
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  Rapid-impact interventions: how a policy of integrated control for Africa's neglected tropical diseases could benefit the poor

  Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005

  This paper, published in PLoS Medicine, highlights recent achievements in controlling several tropical diseases, such as lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, guinea worm, leprosy, and trachoma, which have generally been neglected by policy makers and donors.
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  Land reform and its impact on livelihoods: evidence from eight land reform groups in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa

  Farm Africa, 2005

  One of the key objectives of the South African land reform programme is to provide poor people with an additional asset that they could use to develop strategies to escape from poverty.
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  Achieving the millennium development goals: does mental health play a role?

  Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005

  This paper from the journal PloS Medicine notes that mental health is absent from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Changing priorities: looking after aging dependent populations

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The numbers of people needing daily care in developing countries will increase by as much as five or six times over the next 50 years.  As countries grow richer, so the health needs of their populations change.  Fewer children and mothers die in childbirth, people live longer and, as a result, develop more long-term illnesses.
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  Girls' Education: Towards a Better Future for All

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper describes DFID's planned actions to support work towards the education and gender Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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  MDGs must target poorest say older people

  HelpAge International, 2005

  This paper argues that if the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to deliver fair and equitable development that reaches the very poorest, an explicitly rights-based approach to poverty reduction is needed, in addition to greater financial commitment.It states that the elderly are are less likely to benefit from interventions because:they are often the most difficult to reach as the

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