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Journal article

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

08/05/2025

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

Keywords

Overview

As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt […]

Media briefing

How to Confront the Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Global Public Health Plan and Emergency Response needed now

30/03/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Coronavirus is impacting everyone across the globe. People fear for their own health and for that of their loved ones. The virus exposes extreme inequalities, affecting the most vulnerable people and those living in poverty, at home and around the world. It threatens to take many millions of lives and push billions more into […]

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

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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

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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

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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, […]

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. […]

Journal article

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

01/07/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

Keywords

Overview

In the province of Ratanakiri in Cambodia, indigenous communities have begun to campaign for more culturally appropriate and easily accessible maternal health services. This initiative follows action-based research conducted by Health Unlimited, a British NGO working in the area. The research analysed the range of barriers and facilitating factors that define the access of indigenous […]

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 […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

08/05/2025

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

Keywords

Overview

As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt […]

Media briefing

How to Confront the Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Global Public Health Plan and Emergency Response needed now

30/03/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Coronavirus is impacting everyone across the globe. People fear for their own health and for that of their loved ones. The virus exposes extreme inequalities, affecting the most vulnerable people and those living in poverty, at home and around the world. It threatens to take many millions of lives and push billions more into […]

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. […]

Journal article

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

01/07/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

Keywords

Overview

In the province of Ratanakiri in Cambodia, indigenous communities have begun to campaign for more culturally appropriate and easily accessible maternal health services. This initiative follows action-based research conducted by Health Unlimited, a British NGO working in the area. The research analysed the range of barriers and facilitating factors that define the access of indigenous […]

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 […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

08/05/2025

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

Keywords

Overview

As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt […]

Media briefing

How to Confront the Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Global Public Health Plan and Emergency Response needed now

30/03/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Coronavirus is impacting everyone across the globe. People fear for their own health and for that of their loved ones. The virus exposes extreme inequalities, affecting the most vulnerable people and those living in poverty, at home and around the world. It threatens to take many millions of lives and push billions more into […]

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. […]

Journal article

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

01/07/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

Keywords

Overview

In the province of Ratanakiri in Cambodia, indigenous communities have begun to campaign for more culturally appropriate and easily accessible maternal health services. This initiative follows action-based research conducted by Health Unlimited, a British NGO working in the area. The research analysed the range of barriers and facilitating factors that define the access of indigenous […]

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 […]