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Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Briefing note

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?

07/04/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and has been described as opening a new era for private sector involvement in healthcare in Africa. Instead, the Ministry of Health in one of the poorest and most unequal […]

Research report

The Impact of Protection Interventions on Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Humanitarian Crises: An evidence synthesis protocol

13/04/2016

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This protocol outlines plans for conducting an evidence synthesis on child protection. This synthesis will ask the overarching research question: What is the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), during the period of separation, in humanitarian crises in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)? Specifically, the review will examine this via […]

Journal article

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

01/06/1994

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

Keywords

Overview

Smyth uncovers the pros and cons of family planning as a way of reducing maternal mortality. She finds no evidence that such a link exists in Indonesia. The ‘Safe Motherhood’ programme in Indonesia focuses on family planning for women at high risk. But the programme excludes unmarried women, sex workers, and ill or infertile women, […]

Research report

Squeezed: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 results

23/05/2013

9 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rise and fall rapidly, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And […]

Journal article

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

01/05/2003

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

Keywords

Overview

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the latest international development strategy. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Declaration, signed by all UN member countries, set out a number of Millennium Development Goals. . The debates around the choice of MDGs, and the first steps of implementation, have threatened to push many […]

Research report

Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

01/08/2018

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for camps in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. The research for this report was conducted to identify the needs, vulnerabilities, risks and concerns of Rohingya refugee and host community women, girls, men and boys in Cox's Bazar, as well as the skills […]

Issue briefing

Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia

31/05/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Briefing note

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?

07/04/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and has been described as opening a new era for private sector involvement in healthcare in Africa. Instead, the Ministry of Health in one of the poorest and most unequal […]

Research report

The Impact of Protection Interventions on Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Humanitarian Crises: An evidence synthesis protocol

13/04/2016

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This protocol outlines plans for conducting an evidence synthesis on child protection. This synthesis will ask the overarching research question: What is the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), during the period of separation, in humanitarian crises in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)? Specifically, the review will examine this via […]

Journal article

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

01/06/1994

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

Keywords

Overview

Smyth uncovers the pros and cons of family planning as a way of reducing maternal mortality. She finds no evidence that such a link exists in Indonesia. The ‘Safe Motherhood’ programme in Indonesia focuses on family planning for women at high risk. But the programme excludes unmarried women, sex workers, and ill or infertile women, […]

Research report

Squeezed: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 results

23/05/2013

9 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rise and fall rapidly, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And […]

Journal article

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

01/05/2003

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

Keywords

Overview

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the latest international development strategy. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Declaration, signed by all UN member countries, set out a number of Millennium Development Goals. . The debates around the choice of MDGs, and the first steps of implementation, have threatened to push many […]

Research report

Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

01/08/2018

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for camps in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. The research for this report was conducted to identify the needs, vulnerabilities, risks and concerns of Rohingya refugee and host community women, girls, men and boys in Cox's Bazar, as well as the skills […]

Issue briefing

Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia

31/05/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Briefing note

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?

07/04/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and has been described as opening a new era for private sector involvement in healthcare in Africa. Instead, the Ministry of Health in one of the poorest and most unequal […]

Research report

The Impact of Protection Interventions on Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Humanitarian Crises: An evidence synthesis protocol

13/04/2016

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This protocol outlines plans for conducting an evidence synthesis on child protection. This synthesis will ask the overarching research question: What is the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), during the period of separation, in humanitarian crises in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)? Specifically, the review will examine this via […]

Journal article

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

01/06/1994

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

Keywords

Overview

Smyth uncovers the pros and cons of family planning as a way of reducing maternal mortality. She finds no evidence that such a link exists in Indonesia. The ‘Safe Motherhood’ programme in Indonesia focuses on family planning for women at high risk. But the programme excludes unmarried women, sex workers, and ill or infertile women, […]

Research report

Squeezed: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 results

23/05/2013

9 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rise and fall rapidly, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And […]

Journal article

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

01/05/2003

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

Keywords

Overview

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the latest international development strategy. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Declaration, signed by all UN member countries, set out a number of Millennium Development Goals. . The debates around the choice of MDGs, and the first steps of implementation, have threatened to push many […]

Research report

Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

01/08/2018

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for camps in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. The research for this report was conducted to identify the needs, vulnerabilities, risks and concerns of Rohingya refugee and host community women, girls, men and boys in Cox's Bazar, as well as the skills […]

Issue briefing

Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia

31/05/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]