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Playing broken telephone: assessing faith-inspired health care provision in Africa

01/08/2012

15 pages long

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In the literature on the religious contribution to health and development, it is commonly stated that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) provide from 30 to 70 per cent of all health care provision in Africa. This article tracks the sources of such statements back to the 1960s, highlighting a process of ‘broken telephone’ whereby estimates are passed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth in Orissa and Rajasthan, India

01/05/2008

2 documents

153 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB, with support from the European Commission, implemented the ‘HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth’ in four districts of Orissa and two districts of Rajasthan, India. The programme aimed to help out-of-school rural and tribal youth, aged 13-25, access information and services regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), HIV and […]

Journal article

Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador

01/03/1991

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative ‘successes or ‘failures of participatory projects is measured. It argues for evaluators to distinguish between the perceptions of the different actors involved, and to extend their […]

Journal article

Financing primary health care: An NGO perspective

01/03/1991

9 pages long

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How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health projects to assess four methods of PHC funding and their impact […]

Journal article

Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

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This article develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda’s article, ‘Children of war in the Philippines’. It considers the training of indigenous workers in mental-health care in areas of recent or continuing armed conflict. It explores the possibilities of combining Western therapeutic techniques with local and culturally appropriate ways of working. It stresses the need to […]

Journal article

Development NGOs, local learning, and social capital: the experience of CARE Bolivia in Villa Serrano

01/04/2004

12 pages long

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Overview

The evaluation of development NGOs has seldom considered their impact on social capital and local organisational learning. Deeply intertwined, both are key dimensions of the long-term impact of development interventions. Studies have highlighted the relative success of NGOs in poverty reduction, but have been critical of the sustainability of the benefits and of NGOs’ failure […]

Journal article

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

01/11/1998

7 pages long

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Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

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Tower Hamlets has a sizeable Somali community, who maintain close links to their culture and country of origin. About 80 per cent of Somali women are estimated to have undergone ‘female circumcision’. The authors carried out research to assess whether British health services meet Somali women’s health-care needs. Interestingly, they found that reasons given to […]

Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

Journal article

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

10/11/2014

15 pages long

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Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

Keywords

Overview

Governments need to provide public finance to support services to reduce and redistribute unpaid work. However, while the financial costs of the required public investment are up front and highly visible; the (many) benefits are diffuse, spread over time, and include non-monetary as well as monetary benefits. This article focuses on two experiences from developing countries, in the water […]

Case study

Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian scholarships for medical students from Ghana

23/12/2014

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Scholarships for study in the former Soviet Union were offered to students in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and across the developing world. Many of these scholarships were used to study medicine, and the health workforces of many sub-Saharan African countries now contain a significant number of Soviet-trained doctors – though they remain critically understaffed. […]

Showing 421 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Playing broken telephone: assessing faith-inspired health care provision in Africa

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the literature on the religious contribution to health and development, it is commonly stated that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) provide from 30 to 70 per cent of all health care provision in Africa. This article tracks the sources of such statements back to the 1960s, highlighting a process of ‘broken telephone’ whereby estimates are passed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth in Orissa and Rajasthan, India

01/05/2008

2 documents

153 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB, with support from the European Commission, implemented the ‘HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth’ in four districts of Orissa and two districts of Rajasthan, India. The programme aimed to help out-of-school rural and tribal youth, aged 13-25, access information and services regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), HIV and […]

Journal article

Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador

01/03/1991

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative ‘successes or ‘failures of participatory projects is measured. It argues for evaluators to distinguish between the perceptions of the different actors involved, and to extend their […]

Journal article

Financing primary health care: An NGO perspective

01/03/1991

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health projects to assess four methods of PHC funding and their impact […]

Journal article

Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda’s article, ‘Children of war in the Philippines’. It considers the training of indigenous workers in mental-health care in areas of recent or continuing armed conflict. It explores the possibilities of combining Western therapeutic techniques with local and culturally appropriate ways of working. It stresses the need to […]

Journal article

Development NGOs, local learning, and social capital: the experience of CARE Bolivia in Villa Serrano

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The evaluation of development NGOs has seldom considered their impact on social capital and local organisational learning. Deeply intertwined, both are key dimensions of the long-term impact of development interventions. Studies have highlighted the relative success of NGOs in poverty reduction, but have been critical of the sustainability of the benefits and of NGOs’ failure […]

Journal article

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

01/11/1998

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

Keywords

Overview

Tower Hamlets has a sizeable Somali community, who maintain close links to their culture and country of origin. About 80 per cent of Somali women are estimated to have undergone ‘female circumcision’. The authors carried out research to assess whether British health services meet Somali women’s health-care needs. Interestingly, they found that reasons given to […]

Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

Journal article

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

10/11/2014

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

Keywords

Overview

Governments need to provide public finance to support services to reduce and redistribute unpaid work. However, while the financial costs of the required public investment are up front and highly visible; the (many) benefits are diffuse, spread over time, and include non-monetary as well as monetary benefits. This article focuses on two experiences from developing countries, in the water […]

Case study

Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian scholarships for medical students from Ghana

23/12/2014

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Scholarships for study in the former Soviet Union were offered to students in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and across the developing world. Many of these scholarships were used to study medicine, and the health workforces of many sub-Saharan African countries now contain a significant number of Soviet-trained doctors – though they remain critically understaffed. […]

Showing 421 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Playing broken telephone: assessing faith-inspired health care provision in Africa

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the literature on the religious contribution to health and development, it is commonly stated that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) provide from 30 to 70 per cent of all health care provision in Africa. This article tracks the sources of such statements back to the 1960s, highlighting a process of ‘broken telephone’ whereby estimates are passed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth in Orissa and Rajasthan, India

01/05/2008

2 documents

153 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB, with support from the European Commission, implemented the ‘HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth’ in four districts of Orissa and two districts of Rajasthan, India. The programme aimed to help out-of-school rural and tribal youth, aged 13-25, access information and services regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), HIV and […]

Journal article

Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador

01/03/1991

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative ‘successes or ‘failures of participatory projects is measured. It argues for evaluators to distinguish between the perceptions of the different actors involved, and to extend their […]

Journal article

Financing primary health care: An NGO perspective

01/03/1991

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health projects to assess four methods of PHC funding and their impact […]

Journal article

Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda’s article, ‘Children of war in the Philippines’. It considers the training of indigenous workers in mental-health care in areas of recent or continuing armed conflict. It explores the possibilities of combining Western therapeutic techniques with local and culturally appropriate ways of working. It stresses the need to […]

Journal article

Development NGOs, local learning, and social capital: the experience of CARE Bolivia in Villa Serrano

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The evaluation of development NGOs has seldom considered their impact on social capital and local organisational learning. Deeply intertwined, both are key dimensions of the long-term impact of development interventions. Studies have highlighted the relative success of NGOs in poverty reduction, but have been critical of the sustainability of the benefits and of NGOs’ failure […]

Journal article

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

01/11/1998

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

Keywords

Overview

Tower Hamlets has a sizeable Somali community, who maintain close links to their culture and country of origin. About 80 per cent of Somali women are estimated to have undergone ‘female circumcision’. The authors carried out research to assess whether British health services meet Somali women’s health-care needs. Interestingly, they found that reasons given to […]

Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

Journal article

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

10/11/2014

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Public policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?

Keywords

Overview

Governments need to provide public finance to support services to reduce and redistribute unpaid work. However, while the financial costs of the required public investment are up front and highly visible; the (many) benefits are diffuse, spread over time, and include non-monetary as well as monetary benefits. This article focuses on two experiences from developing countries, in the water […]

Case study

Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian scholarships for medical students from Ghana

23/12/2014

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Scholarships for study in the former Soviet Union were offered to students in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and across the developing world. Many of these scholarships were used to study medicine, and the health workforces of many sub-Saharan African countries now contain a significant number of Soviet-trained doctors – though they remain critically understaffed. […]