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Briefing note

Fairness for All: A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights: Oxfam’s response to the White Paper

06/08/2004

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam believes that poverty, social exclusion and discrimination represent a denial of human rights, preventing people from exercising their full rights (e.g. to housing, adequate health care, education, to an adequate standard of living). In our view, there are also important connections between economic inequality, and inequality based on social divisions such as age, disability, […]

Book

Namibia: Apartheid’s forgotten children

01/01/1985

8 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Namibian children grow up in a stark, beautiful land in the southwest of Africa. With abundant mineral deposits, rich fishing grounds off the coast, plenty of good stock-rearing land, and with one of the lowest population densities in Africa, Namibia should be a prosperous country where children can grow up to realise their full potential. […]

Journal article

Evaluating HIV/AIDS programmes

01/03/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

The ultimate objective of any AIDS/HIV intervention project is to reduce the spread of AIDS by promoting safer sexual behaviour. It is misleading to evaluate individual projects in terms of their success in achieving this because behavioural changes are influenced by a range of external factors. When measuring success, then, indicators should be carefully chosen […]

Journal article

Community involvement in constructing village health buildings in Uganda and Sierra Leone

01/11/1995

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

What opportunities are there, within Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes, for village communities to participate in the process of conceiving, constructing, and maintaining their own health facilities? This article looks at three PHC projects in Sierra Leone and Uganda, involving NGOs, governments, and host communities in the construction of health buildings. From these case studies, […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/1995

12 pages long

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With reference to ‘Help yourself by helping The Poor’, ‘The Decade of the African Child’ and ‘Adjusting health care: the case of Nicaragua’ This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Project Notes: Widows’ and orphans’ property disputes: the impact of AIDS in Rakai District, Uganda

01/11/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

A survey in the Rakai District in 1989 put the number of orphans at 25,000; by 1991 a population census counted 44,000, a growth the author attributes to the AIDS pandemic. The Child Social Care Project (CSCP) in Rakai works with widows and orphans to address their property rights, seeking to reduce the vulnerability of […]

Journal article

Slum dwellers’ diagnosis of their own needs: implications for community development in Nigeria

01/05/1998

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

The author reports on a visit to Lagos State, Nigeria, to research aspects of primary healthcare, and highlights how communities knew what they needed to improve their quality of life, and how they felt health education was not necessary. Their self-determination forced the researchers to adopt a participatory approach, and provide assistance in getting the […]

Journal article

Empowerment at village level through a workshop method

01/05/1998

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

An examination in presented of a pilot project to strengthen Primary Health Care (PHC) in Sheikhupura District, which was initiated by the Department of Health, Punjab, Pakistan. The project seeks to create a viable PHC model, providing accessible and sustainable services. Community Development Workshops for Village Health Committees (VHCs) to promote local participation are being […]

Journal article

Equity in health and economic globalisation

01/11/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

In this personal Viewpoint, the author argues that globalisation has led to increased inequity in health and healthcare provision, just as it aggravates social inequity in general. He highlights the growing sacrifice of equity to efficiency, and the complicity of `elite’ countries and companies in the deterioration of social conditions. Medical knowledge is being traded […]

Journal article

The development management task and reform of ‘public’ social services

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

With its emphasis on target-setting and performance measures, the New Public Management (NPM) appears to offer a coherent and ‘no-nonsense’ approach to public sector reform and the public management task. This article suggests that three questions require further thought: ‘Management of what?’, ‘Management by whom?’, and ‘How to manage?’ It considers these questions using the […]

Showing 431 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing note

Fairness for All: A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights: Oxfam’s response to the White Paper

06/08/2004

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam believes that poverty, social exclusion and discrimination represent a denial of human rights, preventing people from exercising their full rights (e.g. to housing, adequate health care, education, to an adequate standard of living). In our view, there are also important connections between economic inequality, and inequality based on social divisions such as age, disability, […]

Book

Namibia: Apartheid’s forgotten children

01/01/1985

8 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Namibian children grow up in a stark, beautiful land in the southwest of Africa. With abundant mineral deposits, rich fishing grounds off the coast, plenty of good stock-rearing land, and with one of the lowest population densities in Africa, Namibia should be a prosperous country where children can grow up to realise their full potential. […]

Journal article

Evaluating HIV/AIDS programmes

01/03/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The ultimate objective of any AIDS/HIV intervention project is to reduce the spread of AIDS by promoting safer sexual behaviour. It is misleading to evaluate individual projects in terms of their success in achieving this because behavioural changes are influenced by a range of external factors. When measuring success, then, indicators should be carefully chosen […]

Journal article

Community involvement in constructing village health buildings in Uganda and Sierra Leone

01/11/1995

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

What opportunities are there, within Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes, for village communities to participate in the process of conceiving, constructing, and maintaining their own health facilities? This article looks at three PHC projects in Sierra Leone and Uganda, involving NGOs, governments, and host communities in the construction of health buildings. From these case studies, […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/1995

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With reference to ‘Help yourself by helping The Poor’, ‘The Decade of the African Child’ and ‘Adjusting health care: the case of Nicaragua’ This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Project Notes: Widows’ and orphans’ property disputes: the impact of AIDS in Rakai District, Uganda

01/11/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A survey in the Rakai District in 1989 put the number of orphans at 25,000; by 1991 a population census counted 44,000, a growth the author attributes to the AIDS pandemic. The Child Social Care Project (CSCP) in Rakai works with widows and orphans to address their property rights, seeking to reduce the vulnerability of […]

Journal article

Slum dwellers’ diagnosis of their own needs: implications for community development in Nigeria

01/05/1998

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author reports on a visit to Lagos State, Nigeria, to research aspects of primary healthcare, and highlights how communities knew what they needed to improve their quality of life, and how they felt health education was not necessary. Their self-determination forced the researchers to adopt a participatory approach, and provide assistance in getting the […]

Journal article

Empowerment at village level through a workshop method

01/05/1998

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

An examination in presented of a pilot project to strengthen Primary Health Care (PHC) in Sheikhupura District, which was initiated by the Department of Health, Punjab, Pakistan. The project seeks to create a viable PHC model, providing accessible and sustainable services. Community Development Workshops for Village Health Committees (VHCs) to promote local participation are being […]

Journal article

Equity in health and economic globalisation

01/11/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In this personal Viewpoint, the author argues that globalisation has led to increased inequity in health and healthcare provision, just as it aggravates social inequity in general. He highlights the growing sacrifice of equity to efficiency, and the complicity of `elite’ countries and companies in the deterioration of social conditions. Medical knowledge is being traded […]

Journal article

The development management task and reform of ‘public’ social services

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With its emphasis on target-setting and performance measures, the New Public Management (NPM) appears to offer a coherent and ‘no-nonsense’ approach to public sector reform and the public management task. This article suggests that three questions require further thought: ‘Management of what?’, ‘Management by whom?’, and ‘How to manage?’ It considers these questions using the […]

Showing 431 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing note

Fairness for All: A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights: Oxfam’s response to the White Paper

06/08/2004

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam believes that poverty, social exclusion and discrimination represent a denial of human rights, preventing people from exercising their full rights (e.g. to housing, adequate health care, education, to an adequate standard of living). In our view, there are also important connections between economic inequality, and inequality based on social divisions such as age, disability, […]

Book

Namibia: Apartheid’s forgotten children

01/01/1985

8 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Namibian children grow up in a stark, beautiful land in the southwest of Africa. With abundant mineral deposits, rich fishing grounds off the coast, plenty of good stock-rearing land, and with one of the lowest population densities in Africa, Namibia should be a prosperous country where children can grow up to realise their full potential. […]

Journal article

Evaluating HIV/AIDS programmes

01/03/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The ultimate objective of any AIDS/HIV intervention project is to reduce the spread of AIDS by promoting safer sexual behaviour. It is misleading to evaluate individual projects in terms of their success in achieving this because behavioural changes are influenced by a range of external factors. When measuring success, then, indicators should be carefully chosen […]

Journal article

Community involvement in constructing village health buildings in Uganda and Sierra Leone

01/11/1995

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

What opportunities are there, within Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes, for village communities to participate in the process of conceiving, constructing, and maintaining their own health facilities? This article looks at three PHC projects in Sierra Leone and Uganda, involving NGOs, governments, and host communities in the construction of health buildings. From these case studies, […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/1995

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With reference to ‘Help yourself by helping The Poor’, ‘The Decade of the African Child’ and ‘Adjusting health care: the case of Nicaragua’ This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Project Notes: Widows’ and orphans’ property disputes: the impact of AIDS in Rakai District, Uganda

01/11/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A survey in the Rakai District in 1989 put the number of orphans at 25,000; by 1991 a population census counted 44,000, a growth the author attributes to the AIDS pandemic. The Child Social Care Project (CSCP) in Rakai works with widows and orphans to address their property rights, seeking to reduce the vulnerability of […]

Journal article

Slum dwellers’ diagnosis of their own needs: implications for community development in Nigeria

01/05/1998

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author reports on a visit to Lagos State, Nigeria, to research aspects of primary healthcare, and highlights how communities knew what they needed to improve their quality of life, and how they felt health education was not necessary. Their self-determination forced the researchers to adopt a participatory approach, and provide assistance in getting the […]

Journal article

Empowerment at village level through a workshop method

01/05/1998

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

An examination in presented of a pilot project to strengthen Primary Health Care (PHC) in Sheikhupura District, which was initiated by the Department of Health, Punjab, Pakistan. The project seeks to create a viable PHC model, providing accessible and sustainable services. Community Development Workshops for Village Health Committees (VHCs) to promote local participation are being […]

Journal article

Equity in health and economic globalisation

01/11/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In this personal Viewpoint, the author argues that globalisation has led to increased inequity in health and healthcare provision, just as it aggravates social inequity in general. He highlights the growing sacrifice of equity to efficiency, and the complicity of `elite’ countries and companies in the deterioration of social conditions. Medical knowledge is being traded […]

Journal article

The development management task and reform of ‘public’ social services

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With its emphasis on target-setting and performance measures, the New Public Management (NPM) appears to offer a coherent and ‘no-nonsense’ approach to public sector reform and the public management task. This article suggests that three questions require further thought: ‘Management of what?’, ‘Management by whom?’, and ‘How to manage?’ It considers these questions using the […]