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  Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes? Evidence from El Salvador’s Comunidades Solidarias Rurales

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011

  Although conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are traditionally evaluated in relation to child schooling and nutrition outcomes, there is growing interest in examining maternal and reproductive health impacts.
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  Gender, women and primary health care renewal

  World Health Organization, 2010

  The WHO has launched an ambitious course of transforming health systems towards primary health care (PHC), yet integrating a gender perspective within PHC reform is a major challenge. This document aims to outline the basic elements of gender-equitable PHC reforms. The paper concludes the following:
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  The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2009

  Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) can be an important component of social protection policy and there is considerable evidence that CCTs have improved the lives of poor people.
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  Thematic Paper on MDG3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

  United Nations Development Group, 2010

  In 2000, the UN system drew up eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to provide a set of benchmarks to measure progress towards the eradication of global poverty. MDG 3, to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, includes a target on education and additional indicators on women’s employment and political representation.
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  Walking the talk: Putting women's rights at the heart of the HIV and AIDS response

  Voluntary Service Overseas, 2007

  This report from VSO and ActionAid focuses on the gender inequalities and challenges faced by women and girls who provide care for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
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  Does money matter? The effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador

  World Bank, 2007

  This World Bank paper examines how a government-run cash transfer programme targeted to poor mothers in rural Ecuador influenced the health and development of their children. Unlike other transfer programmes that have been implemented in Latin America, the receipt of the cash transfers was not conditioned on specific parental actions.
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  A review of the impact of cash transfer programmes on child nutritional status and some implications for Save the Children UK programmes

  Save the Children Fund, 2006

  This paper, produced by Save the Children reviews eight cash transfer programmes in Latin America and Africa, and discusses the effectiveness of each in improving the nutritional status of children. It finds that cash transfers to targeted households have the potential to improve children’s diet and nutritional status.
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  Does money matter? The effect of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007

  This paper examines how a government-run cash transfer program targeted to poor mothers in rural Ecuador influenced the health and development of their children aged 3 to 7. Unlike some other transfer programs, receipt of the cash transfers was not conditioned on specific parental actions, such as taking children to health clinics or sending them to school.
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  Mobilising financial resources for maternal health

  The Lancet, 2006

  This paper is part of a Lancet series of articles about maternal survival. It begins by making the case for investment in maternal health and then considers how financial resources can be channeled to maternal health within countries. The paper examines the limitations and successes of conventional financing mechanisms including user fees; tax revenue; and insurance.
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  Using social transfers to scale up equitable access to education and health services

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  This paper focuses on the impact of one form of demand-side policy option – social transfers, particularly cash transfers and vouchers - on access to health and education services by the extreme poor.

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