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Oxfam Humankind Index: The new measure of Scotland’s Prosperity, second results

10/06/2013

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Last year, Oxfam Scotland came up with the Oxfam Humankind Index, a new way of measuring what makes a good life. The aim of the index is to assess Scotland’s prosperity through a holistic and more representative measure of progress, that goes beyond the dominant economic model, which relies on Gross Domestic Product as the […]

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Case study

Addressing Southern Africa’s Sanitation Challenges Through Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

01/05/2013

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper explores challenges and gaps in Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) gathered from constructive critical engagement with communities and practitioners from five African countries. The paper is based on a review of available literature on CLTS and indicative interviews with practitioners in five African countries. Its objectives include exploring how CLTS is implemented in Southern […]

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Journal article

Promoting male involvement in family planning in Vietnam and India: HealthBridge experience

14/03/2013

15 pages long

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Promoting male involvement in family planning in Vietnam and India: HealthBridge experience

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In many developing countries, gender inequality contributes to the continued problem of unwanted pregnancies and unmet contraception needs. The majority of family planning programmes in Asia target only women; however, women’s lack of decision making power, even with regard to their own health, hinders their ability to practise family planning. This article describes successes and […]

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Issue briefing

Inequality Matters: BRICS inequalities fact sheet

14/03/2013

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam believes that reducing inequality is fundamental to fair and sustainable development. This fact sheet outlines trends in key dimensions of socio-economic inequality in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), looking especially at education, gender, health, social expenditure and environmental sustainability. The BRICS countries have growing influence in the global economy, […]

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Journal article

From philanthropy to corporate social responsibility in Guatemala: assessing shifts through Alianzas

18/02/2013

18 pages long

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Latin American firms are moving from narrow philanthropy to broader engagement with development priorities. We examine this shift with data from Alianzas, a development programme promoting private contributions to health and education in Guatemala. We use Solomon’s (2010) dimensions of proliferation, professionalisation, and partnering to compare firms’ pre-Alianzas efforts with programme activities. Both firms with […]

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Journal article

Reaching beyond the health post: community-based surveillance for polio eradication

18/02/2013

10 pages long

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This article discusses the CORE Group Polio Project Ethiopia’s introduction of community-based surveillance (CBS) of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) to support polio eradication. A USAID-funded collaboration among Ethiopian and US-based NGOs, the CGPP supports volunteers in education about AFP and encouraging case reporting. Volunteers also conduct active case searches, visiting community leaders likely to have […]

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Journal article

Fertility differential by husbands’ occupational status and income in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, India

18/02/2013

11 pages long

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Fertility differential by husbands’ occupational status and income in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, India

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The paper attempts to find out fertility differential by husbands’ occupational status and income level in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand (India). The mean number of children ever born (MCEB) is used to measure fertility, and monthly income as the income variable. Older and younger cohorts of women were examined separately for assessing fertility differential. MCEB was […]

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Journal article

Exploring strengths-based approaches in the design of a family planning project in Kenya

18/02/2013

6 pages long

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This practical note explores the contribution that strengths-based approaches (SBA) can make to project design. The note outlines how SBA was understood and applied in the design of a family planning project by Marie Stopes in Kenya under the Australian Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES). Fieldwork findings demonstrate how SBA assists in bringing to the […]

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Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

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Technical briefing

Technical Guidelines on Water Trucking in Drought Emergencies

04/01/2013

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Emergency water trucking to drought-affected populations, particularly in the Horn of Africa, has become cyclical intervention as rainfall patterns in these areas has become increasingly unpredictable. In addition to being expensive and unsustainable, cyclical water trucking is coming under increased scrutiny as it increasingly appears to have negative impacts on pastoralist livelihoods, existing coping mechanisms […]

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