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

03/11/2017

1 documents

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 […]

Journal article

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

31/08/2022

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

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This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

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Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

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Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

Journal article

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'.

Discussion paper

Equity and the Expansion of Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Report of a workshop at ICASA

21/11/2003

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Oxfam GB with government and civil society partners have since early 2003 initiated a programme of research and analysis in support of policy and advocacy focusing on HIV/AIDS and equity in health sector responses. The programme has held and reported on an expert […]

Book

Health Care for Refugees and Displaced people

01/01/1994

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

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In the initial stages of an emergency, large numbers of traumatised people are likely to be crowded together in makeshift camps with inadequate facilities. Rapid and effective action is necessary to prevent malnutrition and outbreaks of communicable diseases.

Journal article

Community-based animal health care in Zambia

01/05/1999

5 pages long

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The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs’ [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis’. The project’s success has been tempered by changes in the external environment and the perceptions of the farmers, […]

Journal article

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 […]

Journal article

Who cares? The personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh

01/05/2002

15 pages long

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This article highlights the personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh. The paper draws on field research with the front-line workers of four NGOs, their clients, immediate superiors, and senior management. Fieldworkers face personal problems such as job insecurity, financial hardships, difficulties with accommodation, and family dislocation. These problems differ according to gender, […]

Journal article

Empowering families as an alternative to foster care for street children in Brazil

01/11/2007

6 pages long

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Although the emphasis in current thinking about work with street children has changed from aid-dependency towards youth protagonism, many organisations ignore the role of the children’s families in their interventions. In so doing, they reproduce obsolete welfare traditions and also violate rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and national legislation. […]

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Education resource

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

03/11/2017

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

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

31/08/2022

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

Keywords

Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

Journal article

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

31/08/2022

29 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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

Discussion paper

Equity and the Expansion of Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Report of a workshop at ICASA

21/11/2003

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Oxfam GB with government and civil society partners have since early 2003 initiated a programme of research and analysis in support of policy and advocacy focusing on HIV/AIDS and equity in health sector responses. The programme has held and reported on an expert […]

Book

Health Care for Refugees and Displaced people

01/01/1994

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the initial stages of an emergency, large numbers of traumatised people are likely to be crowded together in makeshift camps with inadequate facilities. Rapid and effective action is necessary to prevent malnutrition and outbreaks of communicable diseases.

Journal article

Community-based animal health care in Zambia

01/05/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs’ [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis’. The project’s success has been tempered by changes in the external environment and the perceptions of the farmers, […]

Journal article

Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project

01/02/1999

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

Who cares? The personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh

01/05/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article highlights the personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh. The paper draws on field research with the front-line workers of four NGOs, their clients, immediate superiors, and senior management. Fieldworkers face personal problems such as job insecurity, financial hardships, difficulties with accommodation, and family dislocation. These problems differ according to gender, […]

Journal article

Empowering families as an alternative to foster care for street children in Brazil

01/11/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Although the emphasis in current thinking about work with street children has changed from aid-dependency towards youth protagonism, many organisations ignore the role of the children’s families in their interventions. In so doing, they reproduce obsolete welfare traditions and also violate rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and national legislation. […]

Showing 431 matching results from Policy & Practice

Education resource

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

03/11/2017

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

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

31/08/2022

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

Keywords

Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

Journal article

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

31/08/2022

29 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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

Discussion paper

Equity and the Expansion of Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Report of a workshop at ICASA

21/11/2003

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Oxfam GB with government and civil society partners have since early 2003 initiated a programme of research and analysis in support of policy and advocacy focusing on HIV/AIDS and equity in health sector responses. The programme has held and reported on an expert […]

Book

Health Care for Refugees and Displaced people

01/01/1994

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the initial stages of an emergency, large numbers of traumatised people are likely to be crowded together in makeshift camps with inadequate facilities. Rapid and effective action is necessary to prevent malnutrition and outbreaks of communicable diseases.

Journal article

Community-based animal health care in Zambia

01/05/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs’ [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis’. The project’s success has been tempered by changes in the external environment and the perceptions of the farmers, […]

Journal article

Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project

01/02/1999

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

Who cares? The personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh

01/05/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article highlights the personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh. The paper draws on field research with the front-line workers of four NGOs, their clients, immediate superiors, and senior management. Fieldworkers face personal problems such as job insecurity, financial hardships, difficulties with accommodation, and family dislocation. These problems differ according to gender, […]

Journal article

Empowering families as an alternative to foster care for street children in Brazil

01/11/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Although the emphasis in current thinking about work with street children has changed from aid-dependency towards youth protagonism, many organisations ignore the role of the children’s families in their interventions. In so doing, they reproduce obsolete welfare traditions and also violate rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and national legislation. […]