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  Monitoring budgets for child rights

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The Bill of Rights in South Africa’s constitution gives special consideration to child rights such as basic nutrition and education, health care and social services. Is it possible to ensure that these rights are realised?
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  Why are policy responses to the needs of poor people inadequate?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Policy failure in developing countries is particularly acute where the chronically poor, vulnerable and excluded are concerned. Although there is now a much better theoretical understanding of poverty, many problems poor people face remain only weakly addressed.
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  Effect of maternal mental health on infant growth in low income countries: new evidence from South Asia

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This article from the British Medical Journal considers new evidence for the impact of postnatal depression (a mental disorder affecting some mothers during the period after giving birth) on poor infant growth in South Asia. Findings show that postnatal depression is a common cause of disability among mothers in the region.
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  Can health vouchers help vulnerable groups?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Vulnerable groups such as poor people and the disabled often benefit less from public health spending. Increasingly, governments are investing in consumer-led demand side financing systems (CL-DSF), whereby specific services can be obtained by vulnerable groups through the use of mechanisms such as government vouchers. There is limited evidence of the success of such schemes.
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  Including disabled people in water and sanitation initiatives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The link between disability and poverty is clear: two thirds of the world’s disabled people live in low-income communities, with most in rural areas. Water and sanitation facilities are considered basic needs and are central to global development. Yet programmes and service providers continue to ignore the needs of disabled people.
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  Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This study identifies and documents the various insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India. It is designed to help development professional to play a more efficient role in the promotion of new insurance services and thus contributing to the extension of social protection to the excluded groups.
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  Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization world mental health surveys

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004

  This article from the Journal of the American Medical Association reports on findings from the World Health Organization mental health surveys, conducted in 14 countries worldwide, eight classified as developed and six as undeveloped. Results showed that overall prevalence of mental disorders varied widely from 4.3 per cent in Shanghai, China to 26.4 per cent in the United States.
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  Social security programs throughout the world

  Social Security Online, 2010

  This publication highlights the principal features of social security programmess in more than 170 countries: old - age, survivors, and disability; sickness and maternity; work injury; unemployment; and family allowances.
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  Health systems strengthening and HIV/AIDS: annotated bibliography and resources

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  The effective provision of services to those affected by HIV and AIDS will require significant strengthening of national health systems, according to this overview of recent research from the Partnership for Health Reform plus (PHRplus).In recent years there has been an important commitment to funding increased access to HIV treatment and other HIV and AIDS services, in particular through the e
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  Working with diversity in collaborations: tips and tools

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2003

  This handbook seeks to help individuals, teams, partnerships, or other collaborative efforts become more effective by helping them to strengthen their understanding and skill in working with diversity within such collaborative arrangements.

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