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Briefing paper

Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries

01/02/2009

9 documents

55 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

The realisation of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable access. A growing number of international donors are promoting an expansion of private-sector health-care delivery to fulfil this goal. The private sector can play a role in health […]

Journal article

A child-care open learning programme in Uganda

01/05/1992

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

These Notes provide a brief report of the early stages of a project providing open and distance training to people working with children in residential-care institutions; the Child Care Open Learning Programme in Uganda, developed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and Save the Children Fund (UK). The author discusses the outcomes and […]

Journal article

Social capacity, sustainable development, and older people: lessons from community-based care in Southeast Asia

01/11/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While gender has become a central factor in development, age and older people are seldom considered, and many organisations assume a top-down, non-participatory model of care – even when these organisations are otherwise engaged in sustainable and participatory development. This paper looks at how older people have been involved in sustainable community-based care efforts in […]

Journal article

The Landcare experience in the Philippines: technical and institutional innovations for conservation farming

01/08/2001

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Sustainable land use is critical for the development of the Philippines uplands, where about 18 million people live. This paper relates our experiences using a participatory approach to develop agroforestry practices and institutions for conservation farming that ensure food security, alleviate poverty, and protect the environment in Claveria, Northern Mindanao, Philippines. We found that natural […]

Journal article

Access to health care among poor elderly women in India: how far do policies respond to women’s realities?

01/11/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Access to health care among poor elderly women in India: how far do policies respond to women’s realities?

Keywords

Overview

In developing countries like India, poor health and inability to access health care are an important part of the experience of ageing, particularly among people living in poverty: access to treatment is governed by public policy, as well as socio-economic characteristics of the elderly people. My research into morbidity among the elderly in an urban […]

Journal article

Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

01/03/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the situation over the last 30 years of women migrants from the Philippines in Italy, who have been caught in what many have called the ‘global care chain’. The pressure to send remittances back home is locking these women even further into the global care chain, with not only economic, but social […]

Case study

A Healthy influence: How Oxfam convened partners to influence Zambia’s elections with the campaign message ‘vote health for all’ and saw a 45 per cent boost to the national health care budget

25/09/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study describes how Oxfam seized upon a crucial political opportunity, and worked with national partners in the lead-up to Zambia’s 2011 election to campaign for better access to health care. The ‘vote health for all’ campaign supported communities to raise their concerns about health care at a national level and pressed for increased […]

Journal article

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

09/07/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

Keywords

Overview

From 2010 to 2012, CARE USA implemented the Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative (WEIMI) to develop the necessary capacity, tools, guidance, and practice to measure and demonstrate the impact of its work on women’s empowerment. The lessons and experiences from this initiative have been transformed into an online guidance tool being utilised throughout CARE to […]

Journal article

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

10/11/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on policy advocacy programmes in Nepal and Nigeria, instigated by ActionAid International with local women’s rights organisations and non-government organisations, and supported by the Institute of Development Studies, UK. These programmes aimed to challenge women’s unequal responsibility for care work and to influence policymakers to understand the importance of providing services to support them. One of the […]

Briefing note

Achieving Healthcare for All in India

04/12/2012

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current debate around Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in India is playing for high stakes. This paper reviews the main issues covered in the debate and considers whether the Government should take a proactive role in ensuring access to healthcare for all, or support the flawed status quo. The debate has polarised positions on a […]

Showing 421 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries

01/02/2009

9 documents

55 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

The realisation of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable access. A growing number of international donors are promoting an expansion of private-sector health-care delivery to fulfil this goal. The private sector can play a role in health […]

Journal article

A child-care open learning programme in Uganda

01/05/1992

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

These Notes provide a brief report of the early stages of a project providing open and distance training to people working with children in residential-care institutions; the Child Care Open Learning Programme in Uganda, developed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and Save the Children Fund (UK). The author discusses the outcomes and […]

Journal article

Social capacity, sustainable development, and older people: lessons from community-based care in Southeast Asia

01/11/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While gender has become a central factor in development, age and older people are seldom considered, and many organisations assume a top-down, non-participatory model of care – even when these organisations are otherwise engaged in sustainable and participatory development. This paper looks at how older people have been involved in sustainable community-based care efforts in […]

Journal article

The Landcare experience in the Philippines: technical and institutional innovations for conservation farming

01/08/2001

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Sustainable land use is critical for the development of the Philippines uplands, where about 18 million people live. This paper relates our experiences using a participatory approach to develop agroforestry practices and institutions for conservation farming that ensure food security, alleviate poverty, and protect the environment in Claveria, Northern Mindanao, Philippines. We found that natural […]

Journal article

Access to health care among poor elderly women in India: how far do policies respond to women’s realities?

01/11/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Access to health care among poor elderly women in India: how far do policies respond to women’s realities?

Keywords

Overview

In developing countries like India, poor health and inability to access health care are an important part of the experience of ageing, particularly among people living in poverty: access to treatment is governed by public policy, as well as socio-economic characteristics of the elderly people. My research into morbidity among the elderly in an urban […]

Journal article

Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

01/03/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the situation over the last 30 years of women migrants from the Philippines in Italy, who have been caught in what many have called the ‘global care chain’. The pressure to send remittances back home is locking these women even further into the global care chain, with not only economic, but social […]

Case study

A Healthy influence: How Oxfam convened partners to influence Zambia’s elections with the campaign message ‘vote health for all’ and saw a 45 per cent boost to the national health care budget

25/09/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study describes how Oxfam seized upon a crucial political opportunity, and worked with national partners in the lead-up to Zambia’s 2011 election to campaign for better access to health care. The ‘vote health for all’ campaign supported communities to raise their concerns about health care at a national level and pressed for increased […]

Journal article

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

09/07/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

Keywords

Overview

From 2010 to 2012, CARE USA implemented the Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative (WEIMI) to develop the necessary capacity, tools, guidance, and practice to measure and demonstrate the impact of its work on women’s empowerment. The lessons and experiences from this initiative have been transformed into an online guidance tool being utilised throughout CARE to […]

Journal article

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

10/11/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on policy advocacy programmes in Nepal and Nigeria, instigated by ActionAid International with local women’s rights organisations and non-government organisations, and supported by the Institute of Development Studies, UK. These programmes aimed to challenge women’s unequal responsibility for care work and to influence policymakers to understand the importance of providing services to support them. One of the […]

Briefing note

Achieving Healthcare for All in India

04/12/2012

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current debate around Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in India is playing for high stakes. This paper reviews the main issues covered in the debate and considers whether the Government should take a proactive role in ensuring access to healthcare for all, or support the flawed status quo. The debate has polarised positions on a […]

Showing 421 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries

01/02/2009

9 documents

55 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

The realisation of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable access. A growing number of international donors are promoting an expansion of private-sector health-care delivery to fulfil this goal. The private sector can play a role in health […]

Journal article

A child-care open learning programme in Uganda

01/05/1992

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

These Notes provide a brief report of the early stages of a project providing open and distance training to people working with children in residential-care institutions; the Child Care Open Learning Programme in Uganda, developed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and Save the Children Fund (UK). The author discusses the outcomes and […]

Journal article

Social capacity, sustainable development, and older people: lessons from community-based care in Southeast Asia

01/11/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While gender has become a central factor in development, age and older people are seldom considered, and many organisations assume a top-down, non-participatory model of care – even when these organisations are otherwise engaged in sustainable and participatory development. This paper looks at how older people have been involved in sustainable community-based care efforts in […]

Journal article

The Landcare experience in the Philippines: technical and institutional innovations for conservation farming

01/08/2001

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Sustainable land use is critical for the development of the Philippines uplands, where about 18 million people live. This paper relates our experiences using a participatory approach to develop agroforestry practices and institutions for conservation farming that ensure food security, alleviate poverty, and protect the environment in Claveria, Northern Mindanao, Philippines. We found that natural […]

Journal article

Access to health care among poor elderly women in India: how far do policies respond to women’s realities?

01/11/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Access to health care among poor elderly women in India: how far do policies respond to women’s realities?

Keywords

Overview

In developing countries like India, poor health and inability to access health care are an important part of the experience of ageing, particularly among people living in poverty: access to treatment is governed by public policy, as well as socio-economic characteristics of the elderly people. My research into morbidity among the elderly in an urban […]

Journal article

Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

01/03/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the situation over the last 30 years of women migrants from the Philippines in Italy, who have been caught in what many have called the ‘global care chain’. The pressure to send remittances back home is locking these women even further into the global care chain, with not only economic, but social […]

Case study

A Healthy influence: How Oxfam convened partners to influence Zambia’s elections with the campaign message ‘vote health for all’ and saw a 45 per cent boost to the national health care budget

25/09/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study describes how Oxfam seized upon a crucial political opportunity, and worked with national partners in the lead-up to Zambia’s 2011 election to campaign for better access to health care. The ‘vote health for all’ campaign supported communities to raise their concerns about health care at a national level and pressed for increased […]

Journal article

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

09/07/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

Keywords

Overview

From 2010 to 2012, CARE USA implemented the Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative (WEIMI) to develop the necessary capacity, tools, guidance, and practice to measure and demonstrate the impact of its work on women’s empowerment. The lessons and experiences from this initiative have been transformed into an online guidance tool being utilised throughout CARE to […]

Journal article

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

10/11/2014

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Policy advocacy for women’s unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in Nepal and Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on policy advocacy programmes in Nepal and Nigeria, instigated by ActionAid International with local women’s rights organisations and non-government organisations, and supported by the Institute of Development Studies, UK. These programmes aimed to challenge women’s unequal responsibility for care work and to influence policymakers to understand the importance of providing services to support them. One of the […]

Briefing note

Achieving Healthcare for All in India

04/12/2012

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The current debate around Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in India is playing for high stakes. This paper reviews the main issues covered in the debate and considers whether the Government should take a proactive role in ensuring access to healthcare for all, or support the flawed status quo. The debate has polarised positions on a […]