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- Literacy comes second: working with groups in developing societies
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Literacy programmes conventionally focus solely on non-literates and use a 'learn first, do later' model that is ill-suited to adult learning. Programmes based on existing groups (whether function- or location-based), and which use a 'learn through doing' ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- NGO–government partnerships for scaling up: sexuality education in Mexico
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Governments in developing countries need effective programmes to advance public policies and improve social welfare. NGOs often have well-tested programmes and research outcomes that are relevant to such needs, yet the scaling up of pilot programmes to ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
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Author: Farmer, Paul, with a Foreword by Amartya Sen Publisher: Berkeley, CA: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Reproductive Health Matters
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Author: Berer, Marge Issue: Volume 4, Number ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-08 08:53
- Teaching Amina to read
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The Government of India has made strides in increasing its education spending and improving access to schools, but there is much left to do. Programmes have concentrated on the expansion of higher education in India. In fact, public spending per student ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 13:37
- Are healthier people happier? Evidence from Chile and Uruguay
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Based on data from the Latinobarómetro, this study analyses data on happiness to establish the probability that an individual is happy. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect in increasing levels of happiness. The probabi ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:05
- Peer education in sexual and reproductive health programming: a Cambodian case study
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This article analyses in detail the impact and effectiveness of peer-education projects implemented in Cambodia under the Reproductive Health Initiative for Asia (RHI), in an attempt to provide important lessons for the design and implementation of such ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:48
- Decentralising urban health activities in developing countries: issues in planning
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While there is considerable documented experience of decentralisation of health services in rural areas of developing countries, the decentralisation of health services in the urban context is rarely analysed. Urban development literature usually fails to ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Information for action: the Clearinghouse Project
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The author, formerly Director of the Clearinghouse Project, describes the aims, achievements and underlying philosophy of the Project, which was set up in 1979 by the American Public Health Association (funded by USAID) to improve access to information fo ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Gender, development, and training: raising awareness in the planning process
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Several decades of development experience have yielded a wealth of findings about the key assumptions, procedures, and practices by which women have been marginalised in development planning. The value of these insights lies not only in highlighting flawe ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04
