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  Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
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  Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
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  New products into old systems: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) from a country perspective

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) aims to expand the use of under-utilised vaccines in seventy-four developing countries whilst supporting the development of other vaccines, but what have the experiences of recipient countries been of GAVI?
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  Integrating vertical programmes into sector wide approaches: experiences and lessons

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2001

  Does the transition to sector wide approaches (SWAps) in the health sector risk reducing the impact of previously successful initiatives covered by vertical health programmes?
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  Capacity building and systems development for SWAps: the experience of the Ghana health sector

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2001

  The sector-wide approach has been incorporated in Ghana’s approach to health sector development since 1996, although it was not formally labelled as a SWAp.
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  Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

  Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001

  Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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  Developing and validating a methodology to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS on older caregivers

  Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 2001

  Project set in four countries in Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania. It aims to identify barriers that prevent older people from providing adequate and fulfilling care to their children dying from HIV/AIDS and, subsequently, to their orphaned grandchildren.
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  Gender and public social spending: disaggregating benefit incidence

  Gendernet, World Bank, 1999

  Describes how the gender dimension of public spending on health and education can be captured in part through benefit incidence analysis.It contains two basic messages: gender disaggregations are important in their own right, since they highlight gender differences in benefit incidence which are of policy concernthese gender differences are also important in understanding other matt
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  Public health and education spending in Ghana in 1992-98: issues of equity and efficiency

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper analyses the efficiency and equity issues in public expenditures in the health and education sectors in Ghana during the 1990s using primary data from the line Ministries and household survey data from the Ghana Statistical Service.The paper highlights Ghana’s decrease in public expenditures in the education sector in the latter part of the 1990s.
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  Increasing the nutritional impacts of agricultural interventions

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 1999

  Study provides information on program and policy options. The findings and recommendations are based on an extensive review of the literature as well as interviews with researchers, USAID managers and other development and donor organizations.

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