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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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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

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

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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

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

Gender inequality, mothers’ health and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India

08/11/2010

10 pages long

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Gender inequality, mothers’ health and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India

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Overview

Food availability does not always ensure equal access to all the family members. Even today the distribution of food and nutrition depends on the old age tradition and norms set by the communities. This article focuses on a project which intended to challenge these attitudes and beliefs in India. This article is hosted by our […]

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 […]

Discussion paper

Feminist Futures: Caring for people, caring for justice and rights

14/09/2020

4 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, communities around the world are weighing the many possible answers to the questions of ‘how did we arrive here?’, ‘what comes after COVID-19?’ and ‘what kind of society do we want to build after this global shock?’ The pandemic has been so extraordinary in nature that in order to […]

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

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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, […]

Book

Health Care for Refugees and Displaced people

01/01/1994

1 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

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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.

Case study

From Policy to Practice: Young people in Nepal successfully lobbying for healthcare

15/09/2015

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

My Rights, My Voice is an innovative four year global programme which aims to engage marginalized children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries – Afghanistan, Georgia, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Tanzania and Vietnam. Children and young people have huge potential to transform their lives and communities. With the […]

Journal article

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

19/09/2024

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

Keywords

Overview

Research documenting the re-configurations of ‘public–private’ boundaries encountered by migrant domestic workers has observed how they often create a sense of ‘home’ in public spaces in destination countries. Migrant workers’ occupation of, and interactions in, public spaces such as parks, malls, restaurants, and churches in effect create ‘private spheres’ where they can relax and be […]

Showing 439 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

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

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

Gender inequality, mothers’ health and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India

08/11/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender inequality, mothers’ health and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India

Keywords

Overview

Food availability does not always ensure equal access to all the family members. Even today the distribution of food and nutrition depends on the old age tradition and norms set by the communities. This article focuses on a project which intended to challenge these attitudes and beliefs in India. This article is hosted by our […]

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 […]

Discussion paper

Feminist Futures: Caring for people, caring for justice and rights

14/09/2020

4 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, communities around the world are weighing the many possible answers to the questions of ‘how did we arrive here?’, ‘what comes after COVID-19?’ and ‘what kind of society do we want to build after this global shock?’ The pandemic has been so extraordinary in nature that in order to […]

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, […]

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.

Case study

From Policy to Practice: Young people in Nepal successfully lobbying for healthcare

15/09/2015

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

My Rights, My Voice is an innovative four year global programme which aims to engage marginalized children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries – Afghanistan, Georgia, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Tanzania and Vietnam. Children and young people have huge potential to transform their lives and communities. With the […]

Journal article

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

19/09/2024

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

Keywords

Overview

Research documenting the re-configurations of ‘public–private’ boundaries encountered by migrant domestic workers has observed how they often create a sense of ‘home’ in public spaces in destination countries. Migrant workers’ occupation of, and interactions in, public spaces such as parks, malls, restaurants, and churches in effect create ‘private spheres’ where they can relax and be […]

Showing 439 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

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

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

Gender inequality, mothers’ health and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India

08/11/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender inequality, mothers’ health and unequal distribution of food: experience from a CARE project in India

Keywords

Overview

Food availability does not always ensure equal access to all the family members. Even today the distribution of food and nutrition depends on the old age tradition and norms set by the communities. This article focuses on a project which intended to challenge these attitudes and beliefs in India. This article is hosted by our […]

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 […]

Discussion paper

Feminist Futures: Caring for people, caring for justice and rights

14/09/2020

4 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, communities around the world are weighing the many possible answers to the questions of ‘how did we arrive here?’, ‘what comes after COVID-19?’ and ‘what kind of society do we want to build after this global shock?’ The pandemic has been so extraordinary in nature that in order to […]

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, […]

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.

Case study

From Policy to Practice: Young people in Nepal successfully lobbying for healthcare

15/09/2015

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

My Rights, My Voice is an innovative four year global programme which aims to engage marginalized children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries – Afghanistan, Georgia, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Tanzania and Vietnam. Children and young people have huge potential to transform their lives and communities. With the […]

Journal article

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

19/09/2024

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

Keywords

Overview

Research documenting the re-configurations of ‘public–private’ boundaries encountered by migrant domestic workers has observed how they often create a sense of ‘home’ in public spaces in destination countries. Migrant workers’ occupation of, and interactions in, public spaces such as parks, malls, restaurants, and churches in effect create ‘private spheres’ where they can relax and be […]