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Resources: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

31/08/2022

29 pages long

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Resources: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

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This is the Resources section of the journal issue on 'A Gender-Responsive Recovery: Ensuring Women’s Decent Work and Transforming Care Provision'.

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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?

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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 […]

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

01/03/1991

15 pages long

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Beyond development impact: gender and care in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Programme

28/03/2019

16 pages long

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Beyond development impact: gender and care in the Pacific Seasonal Worker Programme

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Close to 17,320 workers participate in the Seasonal Worker Programme, a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected island countries in the Pacific. This article looks at the ways in which seasonal migration affects the social lives of migrants from Tonga and Vanuatu, in their households and communities. It explores the various barriers that women […]

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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

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40 pages long

Languages: English

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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. […]

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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 […]

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Education resource

Into Film presents Dhanak: Does everyone in India have equal access to healthcare?

03/11/2017

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Languages: English

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Dhanak is the story of Pari and her little brother Chotu who travel the length of Rajasthan, India, in the hope that Chotu will be able to regain his sight. This story of hope and determination will help learners aged 11-16 to think critically about access to healthcare, inequality and why essential services are so […]

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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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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 […]

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Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project

01/02/1999

7 pages long

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Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project

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The Assuit Burns Project (ABP) is a small Egyptian NGO working to help burns victims. The author describes the work of the Project, setting out its various capacities, and criticises funders’ and donors’ over-emphasis on preventative medicine at the expense of this type of curative work. Burns victims can become economic and social outcasts, and […]

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