Global Health Publications
A list of publications
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Determinants of health seeking behaviour in South Sudan: a cross-sectional household survey
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Study
Access to healthcare is a major challenge in South Sudan, but evidence on the factors influencing health seeking behaviour (HSB) and the magnitude of their effect is limited. This study aims to identify which determinants are associated with seeking care for perceived health needs and with seeking care at private or public healthcare facilities in […]
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- January 2025
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Navigating systemic market transformation: Mid-term Review of IDH 2021 – 2025
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Review
This report presents the high-level findings of the mid-term review (MTR) of the IDH corporate portfolio in its 2021-2025 funding period, performed by KIT Institute and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).
- Year of publication
- December 2024
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Geospatial tools and data for health service delivery
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Article
As extreme weather events increase in frequency and intensity, the health system faces significant challenges, not only from shifting patterns of climate-sensitive diseases but also from disruptions to healthcare infrastructure, supply chains and the physical systems essential for delivering care. This necessitates the strategic use of geospatial tools to guide the delivery of healthcare services […]
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- 2024
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The Potential of Landscape Approaches for Addressing Child Labour in the Cocoa Sector
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Report
This synthesis of six case studies studies the impact of the “landscape approach” and offers recommendations for its design and setup, as this approach – in theory – has the potential to support effective and sustainable action to prevent and address child labour. Based on an operational definition of a “landscape approach” – an approach […]
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- September 2024
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Uniting Resources and Solidarity: Gaza Initiative Conference Amsterdam
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Report
“Uniting Knowledge, Resources and Solidarity”, the third Gaza Health Initiative (GHI) conference, held on Friday, 13 September 2024 at KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam convened over 200 humanitarian and development practitioners, global health experts and policy makers, working in Gaza and internationally, to support the recovery of Gaza’s devastated health sector. The conference discussed […]
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- 2024
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Desk review: what are social norms and how to effectively set up social norm change interventions in SRHR programmes
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Review
This Break Free! brief aims to provide an easy-to-read description of lessons learnt in implementing social norms change interventions in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), particularly around preventing child marriage and teenage pregnancy. The brief was developed based on an extensive document review. The recommendations section was informed by three virtual working sessions […]
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- 2024
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Geospatial tools and data for health service delivery: opportunities and challenges across the disaster management cycle
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Paper
As extreme weather events increase in frequency and intensity, the health system faces significant challenges, not only from shifting patterns of climate-sensitive diseases but also from disruptions to healthcare infrastructure, supply chains and the physical systems essential for delivering care. This necessitates the strategic use of geospatial tools to guide the delivery of healthcare services […]
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- 2024
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Youth advocacy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Mozambique
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Report
The active participation of young individuals in the development and execution of programs and policies directed towards youth, particularly in matters of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), is key for the effectiveness of such initiatives. Meaningful involvement of youth in advocacy entails their engagement across all stages of advocacy, encompassing issue selection, strategy […]
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- 2024
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Is seed aid distribution still justified in South Sudan?
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Paper
Seed aid—or free distribution of seeds to farmers—is a popular intervention to simultaneously reduce food insecurity and dependency on food aid in fragile countries. However, seed aid distribution also has the potential to hinder or distort the development of local seed markets. This study analyses the targeting and impact of seed aid across the green […]
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- 2024
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How gender norms impact women’s role in forest use and forest management—illustrations from Ethiopia’s Bale Ecoregion
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Working Paper
This paper unravels the gender relations in rural forest-dependent communities in Ethiopia by taking a closer look at the country’s Bale Ecoregion, located in the Oromia regional state. Drawing on primary quantitative and qualitative data, the paper explores women’s roles as users of forest resources and in forest resource management, before reflecting on the construction […]
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- 2024
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Climate-resilient aquatic food systems require transformative change to address gender and intersectional inequalities
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Research article
The adverse impacts of climate change on aquatic food systems (AFS) and the people who depend on AFS for livelihood security are inequitably distributed between and within countries. People facing the highest risks and experiencing the severest impacts of climate change are those who already experience multidimensional inequalities in their lives, particularly because of their […]
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- 2024
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 management on the workload of human resources working in India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination Program
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Research article
In 1993, WHO declared tuberculosis (TB) as a global health emergency considering 10 million people are battling TB, of which 30% are undiagnosed annually. In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic took an unprecedented toll on health systems in every country. Public health staff already engaged in TB control and numerous other departments were additionally tasked with […]
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- 2024
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Gender and forest resources in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic literature review
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Research article
Consolidating, analysing and synthesizing the empirical literature on gender and forest resources within low- and middle-income countries to unravel the multifaceted factors contributing to gender disparities. This systematic literature review provides a comprehensive understanding of the gender disparities in forest resource management, highlighting the multifaceted impact of gender norms on women’s access to and use […]
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- 2024
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Evaluation of the Decade for Strengthening Human Resources for Health in the WHO South-East Asian Region (2015-2024)
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Evaluation
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Report
Facing some of the most significant shortages in health workers globally, the World Health Organization’s South-East Asian regional office selected UHC, focusing on human resources for health (HRH) and essential medicines, as a flagship priority in 2014. This commitment then evolved into the ‘Decade of HRH Strengthening (2015-2024)’: a ten-year agenda of HRH strengthening launched […]
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- 2024
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Nestlé Income Accelerator Program: Progress Report of the Test-at-Scale Phase
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Report
In 2022, Nestlé launched the Income Accelerator Program in Côte d’Ivoire as part of their ambition to help close the Living Income (LI) gap in their cocoa supply chain and combat the root causes of child labour risks. The current test-at-scale phase involves 10,000 farming households in Côte d’Ivoire, following a previous one-year piloting period among 1,000 farming households. These […]
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- 2024
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Cocoa Household Income Study (CHIS) Methodology
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Study
The cocoa sector has been working to deliver living incomes for cocoa farming households since 2015, but learning at the sector level aimed at achieving living incomes has been hampered by challenges in data collection and sharing. To address these challenges and to inform policy and strategy design and delivery with a focus on impact […]
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- 2024
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Professional societies of obstetrics and gynecology as agents of change in sexual and reproductive health
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Article
In 2019, FIGO started implementing its abortion project focusing on advocacy. The Advocacy for Safe Abortion (ASA) Project was conducted in partnership with 10 national professional societies of obstetrics and gynecology in Latin America and Africa. The project aimed to strengthen national societies, support them to be leaders in sexual and reproductive health, and enable […]
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- 2024
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The role of healthcare providers in expanding legal abortion:Qualitative insights from Argentina, Ireland, and South Korea
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Article
Abortion laws are key in creating an enabling environment that facilitates the advancement of people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Around 50 countries have liberalized their abortion laws in the last decades by adding new grounds allowing abortion. The road toward the expansion of legal abortion is a long, highly sensitive, and difficult process. […]
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- 2024
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Enabling targeted mass drug administration for schistosomiasis in north-western Tanzania
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Research article
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease in Tanzania affecting over 50% of the population. Current control strategies involve mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns at the district level, which have led to problems of over- and under-treatment in different areas. WHO guidelines have called for more targeted MDA to circumvent these problems, however a scarcity of prevalence […]
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- 2024
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Vulnerability and resilience among farmers and market actors in local agri-food value chains in the face of COVID-19 disruptions: findings from Uganda and Kenya
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Paper
Countries which imposed strict containment measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are thought to have faced particular socio-economic challenges. This study assesses the implications of COVID-19 disruptions on local agri-food value chain actors in Kenya and Uganda, as both countries enacted strict lockdowns to limit the spread of the virus. Using survey data from […]
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- 2024
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Drivers of Child Marriage in Eastern and Western provinces in Zambia and effective preventions
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Study
The Break Free! Consortium in Zambia is – through a mixture of interventions that include lobby and advocacy – working towards reducing child marriage in Eastern province in Zambia, a province with a high child marriage rate (45.4% of women aged 20-24 were married by the age of 18 in 2018). The Break Free! partners, […]
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- 2023
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Mid-term evaluation of the Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes (ISLA) programme 2021-2025
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Report
This report presents the findings of the mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the second phase of IDH’s Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes (ISLA), funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ISLA programme was first launched in 2015 and is now half-way its second funding period (2021-2025). In view thereof, the purpose of this MTE is—besides accountability to […]
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- 2023
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Contested representations: A comparative analysis of palm oil sustainability in Malaysian and Dutch media
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Research article
The emergence of palm oil as the world’s most produced and consumed vegetable oil has prompted various policy initiatives to help govern the industry in a sustainable manner. These initiatives include transnational sustainable certification schemes, such as the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), and national level sustainability standards, such as Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil. […]
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- 2023
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Community bylaws concerning sexual and reproductive health and rights in Traditional Authority Chiwalo, Machinga district, southern Malawi
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Study
Community bylaws are commonly accepted mechanisms to influence behaviour change to achieve better health and development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the uses, benefits, and potential downsides of community bylaws are largely unclear, especially regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young people. The objective of this study was to determine the extent […]
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- 2023
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Gendered social norms in agrifood systems
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Working Paper
Social norms are widely accepted, informal, typically unspoken and unwritten rules of acceptable, appropriate, and obligatory behavior. They are often implicit, to the point where people internalize, accept, and follow them without critical thought. Social norms are strongly linked to, but different from, behavior: they govern a behavior but are not the behavior itself. As […]
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- 2023
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Navigating competing demands in monitoring and evaluation: Five key paradoxes
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Research article
Evaluation in complex programs assembling multiple actors and combining various interventions faces contradictory requirements. In this article, we take a management perspective to show how to recognize and accommodate these contradictory elements as paradoxes. Through reflective practice we identify five paradoxes, each consisting of two contradicting logics: the paradox of purpose—between accountability and learning; the […]
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- 2023
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Studying a gender responsive vaccine system: retrospective analysis of best methods
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Paper
This methodological paper introduces four projects, all of which aimed to increase women’s engagement in and benefit from the livestock vaccine value chains of small ruminants and poultry by improving women’s empowerment and supporting women’s access to animal health services. All four projects used a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods to understand the […]
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- 2023
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Women’s sexual rights and empowerment beyond the liberal paradigm:
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Book chapter
Understanding sexuality and power relations from the life experiences of young women Women’s sexuality was originally included in the development agenda mainly in relation to health and risks. With time, it has started to be understood also through the lenses of the ‘empowerment’ and ‘rights’ approaches. This chapter looks at the way in which young […]
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- 2023
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The Swedish aid response to the HIV epidemic: an overview
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Review
In the late 1970s the first cases of a new, unknown disease began to appear, that would quickly develop into one of the modern world’s largest public health and development crises. Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has killed millions of people over four decades, most of them in low- and middle-income countries. It has challenged […]
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- 2023
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Living Income and Child Labour in the Cocoa Sector of Côte d’Ivoire
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Working Paper
KIT Working Paper Child labour remains a persistent human rights violation in international commodity supply chains, adversely impacting children’s physical and mental health and depriving them of educational opportunities (UNICEF, 2020). This holds true for the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire; a country that produces 43% of all cocoa worldwide (ICCO, 2022). A nationwide study […]
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- 2023
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Third party monitoring for health in Afghanistan: the good, the bad and the ugly
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Research article
Third party monitoring (TPM) is used in development programming to assess deliverables in a contract relationship between purchasers (donors or government) and providers (non-governmental organisations or non-state entities). In this paper, we draw from our experience as public health professionals involved in implementing and monitoring the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and the Essential […]
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- 2023
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Gender dynamics in agrifood value chains: Advances in research and practice over the last decade
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Research article
This paper reviews knowledge generated over the past 10 years on gendered patterns to engagement, returns on engagement, and power relations in agrifood value chains. It examines how research has advanced, evidence of improvements in gender equality and women’s empowerment, and the circumstances under which any advances have happened. Gender inequalities in value chains remain […]
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- 2023
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What Should I Aspire to? Peer Effects in Adolescents’ Friendship Networks
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Research article
In sub-Saharan Africa, economic aspirations often conflict with aspirations to follow traditional social obligations. We test whether adolescents are influenced by friends when deciding which one to prioritize. To do so, we elicit the preferences and perceived competition between economic and social aspirations of 533 Ugandan students, as well as their friendship ties. Using characteristics […]
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- 2023
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“You are a child and this is not your business”: Decision-making on child marriage in Sindh, Pakistan
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Research article
Young people in Pakistan face challenges such as child marriage, which have adverse consequences on their education, employment, health and overall well-being. We conducted interviews (26) and focus group discussions (12) with young people (15 to 24 years) and community stakeholders to understand how child marriage is perceived by them and to gain insight into […]
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- 2023
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Research for Change: Assessing Responses to the Needs of Survivors of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Settings
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Study
Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) is one of the greatest protection, human rights and public health challenges that is present in all societies and is further exacerbated during humanitarian emergencies. In Yemen a nine-year-long conflict has prompted one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world. More than 23.4 million people are in need […]
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Designing for change through “reflecting and doing”: the CGIAR Community of Practice on Gender-Transformative Research Methodologies
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Research article
Gender-transformative change requires a commitment from everyone involved in agricultural research for development (AR4D) including organizations at international and national level, individual researchers and practitioners, farmers, development agencies, policy-makers and consumers, to transform the existing values, practices and priorities that (re)produce and perpetuate gender biases and inequities in agrifood systems. However, the adoption of a […]
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- 2023
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Safety and quality of healthcare from the user perspective: exploratory study of Facebook groups
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Research article
The aim of the study presented in this article is to discuss the safety and quality of health care using content shared in Facebook groups and to reflect on patient’s perspective on these issues. It is a qualitative study using as data source posts from three groups that addressed these issues on Facebook during the research period. Data […]
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Frugal innovation and legitimacy
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Book chapter
While legitimacy related to frugal innovation has not yet received much attention, in this chapter we argue that the concept is of key importance to this field. We identify three legitimacy challenges for frugal innovation: the possibly exploitative tendencies associated with the dominant role of MNCs in local informal communities; how frugal innovations are often […]
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- 2023
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Patient safety in childbirth care: what is discussed in Facebook groups?
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Research article
Patient safety in childbirth care is a current topic on the agendas of discussion about the quality of maternal and child care around the world. This qualitative study sought to discuss the adverse events in childbirth care and its contributing factors, as perceived by patients and family members, using data collected from posts in Facebook […]
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- 2022
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Mapping online visuals of shale gas controversy: a digital methods approach
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Research article
The internet is an increasingly influential actor and arena for debating emerging sustainability controversies, but studies often overlook the role of visualisations in online spreading of information. This paper offers a way to better understand this role: what images do competing online actors use, are there differences between opponents and proponents, differences between internet regions, […]
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- 2021
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare access and utilisation in South Sudan: a cross-sectional mixed methods study
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Research article
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities in fragile and conflict-affected settings may be severe due to reduced access and use of healthcare, as happened during the 2015 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. Achieving a balance between short-term emergency response and addressing long-term health needs is particularly challenging in fragile and conflict-affected settings such as […]
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- 2022
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Youth-led Advocacy in Ethiopia
Young people on their successes, challenges, and motivations for youth-led SRHR advocacy in Ethiopia Youth-led advocacy as a concept is becoming increasingly familiar in development programmes, and in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) programmes specifically. Yet, research on this topic is rather scarce. Youth-led advocacy is usually understood as young people meaningfully involved […]
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All in on Millet?
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Working Paper
This article explores the re-emergence of millet in domestic value chains and its use by private actors with innovative business models – using fortification or biofortification – to highlight millet’s smart food properties. While millet has been in the shadow of rice and wheat production for decades, recently there has been renewed interest in millet […]
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- 2023
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Human Resources for Health in Conflict Affected Settings: A Scoping Review of primary peer reviewed publications 2016 – 2022
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Research article
Conflict has devastating effects on health systems, especially on healthcare workers (HCWs) working in under-resourced and hostile environments. However, little evidence is available on how policy-makers, often together with development partners, can optimize the organization of the health workforce and support HCWs to deliver accessible and trustworthy health services in conflict-affected settings (CAS). A scoping […]
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- 2023
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Nestlé Income Accelerator Program – Baseline report
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Report
The Income Accelerator Program (IAP) aims to tackle key issues facing farm households in the cocoa sector – such as Living Income (LI) gap, child labor, and lack of women empowerment – by enhancing cocoa productivity, increasing additional income sources, improving gender equality, creating a professional labor force, and improving access to loans and savings. […]
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A qualitative meta-analysis of the Theatre for a Change methodology in 12 countries worldwide
Participatory approaches to improving sexual and reproductive health and rights Theatre for a Change (TfaC) is an organisation that, since 2003, has been aiming to improve the sexualand reproductive health and rights (SRHR) outcomes of women and girls who have been marginalised, through participatory learning and drama. Owing much to the work of Augusto Boal, […]
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Nestlé Income Accelerator Program – Midline report of the Pilot Phase (2023)
The Income Accelerator Program (IAP) aims to tackle key issues facing farm households in the cocoa sector – such as Living Income (LI) gap, child labor, and lack of women empowerment – by enhancing cocoa productivity, increasing additional income sources, improving gender equality, creating a professional labor force, and improving access to loans and savings. […]
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An external review of the PlantwisePlus proof-of-concept phase, 2021-2023
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Report
Launched in mid-2020, CABI’s PlantwisePlus programme builds on the organization’s previous Plantwise and Action on Invasives initiatives. It comprises new elements developed from the learnings of these two earlier programmes, which are designed to fill in any gaps and respond to identified opportunities PlantwisePlus is striving to help sustainably produce more and safer food for […]
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- 2023
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Connecting the Concepts of Frugality and Inclusion to Appraise Business Practices in Systems of Food Provisioning: A Kenyan Case Study
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Research article
Small and medium size business enterprises (SMEs) are the linchpin in systems of food provisioning in sub-Saharan Africa. These businesses occupy the middle of the agri-food chain and face a food security conundrum: they must ensure that smallholder producers of limited means can operate under fair terms while low-income consumers are supplied with affordable and […]
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Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3) Programme – Final Evaluation Report
The Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3) programme was implemented by UNESCO in partnership with Ministries of Education and other organisations in 33 African countries between 2018 and June 2023. Being the largest in-school comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programme in Africa, O3 focused on 1) securing and sustaining strong political commitment and support for […]
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Unique features of agricultural cooperatives in sub-Saharan Africa
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Book chapter
Agricultural cooperatives and other farmer-owned organizations are widespread acrosssub-Saharan Africa. The scant available data suggests that every other rural village in Africa houses a cooperative organization of some sort. The literature suggests that when farm-households join these organizations, they derive benefits from mutual support—for weeding, harvesting, and other labor-intensive activities, but also financing funerals, weddings, […]
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- 2023
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Education and Empowerment over Marriage: Key drivers of Child Marriage in Eastern and Western Provinces in Zambia, and how they can be addressed
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Policy Brief
Child marriage, defined as a legal or informal union between two people before one or both of them turn 18 years old, is a practice that is proportionately affects girls and is linked to several unfavourable health, developmental, familial and social outcomes (1). Eastern and Southern Africa are home to over 50 million child brides, […]
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- 2023
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Impact of hybrid potato
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Book
This book describes the potential impact of the innovative hybrid breeding technology in potato. Conventional potato production is based on cumbersome breeding and multiplying of seed tubers. Seed tubers degenerate during the many generations of slow multiplication. Their bulkiness makes them difficult to store and transport. These issues are solved by hybrid true potato seed. […]
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“We have been invaded”: Wind energy sacrifice zones in Åfjord Municipality and their implications for Norway
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Research article
Following the “green” growth tradition, the construction of lower carbon energy (renewable energy) infrastructures, such as wind power, has gained prominence in Norway. This has led to indigenous Saami herders confronting pastureland dispossession, some citizens fearing the industrialization of nature, and municipal councils losing formal governance power in favor of national agencies and private-sector project […]
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- 2023
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Drivers of child marriage in specific settings of Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya,Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia – findings from the Yes I Do! baseline study
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Research article
Child marriage persists in many countries and has severe impacts on health, education, economic and social status of girls. Child marriage has many interlinked causes. This study aimed to explore the drivers of child marriage in specific contexts in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Multiple intersecting drivers, which were present in different degrees […]
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- 2023
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Toward structural change: Gender Transformative Approaches
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Book chapter
Serie: Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: past, present and future Almost a quarter of a century after the Beijing Declaration, and with 10 years left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, The Guardian announced the SDG Gender Index’s finding that, “Not one single country is set to achieve gender equality by 2030” […]
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- 2021
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CGIAR research through an empowerment and equality lens
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Book chapter
Serie: Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future Over the past decade or so, there has been a renewed, and more concerted and comprehensive, interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment in the agricultural development sector. Renowned development organizations have put gender dynamics back in the spotlight by means of […]
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- 2021
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Completeness of TB notification in Portugal, 2015: an inventory and capture-recapture study
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Research article
Despite the steady decline in the last few decades, Portugal remains the Western European country with the highest TB notification rates. The aim of this study was to estimate the completeness of notification to the National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) Surveillance System (SVIG-TB) in 2015.
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Blurring the lines Journalism and epidemiology in the time of corona
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Article
Journalism has borrowed tools and expertise from epidemiology in reporting on Covid-19. Epidemiologists should borrow from journalists too, says Sandra Alba
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Finagle’s laws of information: lessons learnt evaluating a complex health intervention in Nigeria
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Article
Evaluations cannot support evidence-informed decision making if they do not provide the information needed by decision-makers. In this article, we reflect on our own difficulties evaluating the Geo Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3) approach, an intervention that provides high-resolution demographic and geographical information to support health service delivery. GRID3 was implemented in […]
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The Cape Town Statement on fairness, equity and diversity in research
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Article
The benefits of scientific collaboration are too often skewed towards wealthier countries. Bioethicists and others present guidance on how stakeholders such as researchers can change this.
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Effort and Social Comparison: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
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Research article
Individual effort is key to generate income and escape from poverty. In small-scale societies in developing countries, where effort and resulting income are easily observable, social comparison can influence effort in both positive and negative ways. To study the effects of social comparison, we use a lab experiment in which participants conduct a real-effort task […]
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- 2023
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Bats, parachutes and bridges: How can epidemiologists improve global health research practice?
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Article
Epidemiologist Sandra Alba is part of a team that developed a new set of guidelines to address issues of research integrity and fairness in international health research collaborations. She explains what the guidelines hope to achieve, and how.
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Youth-led Advocacy in Mali
“Any action done without me is against me”. Modalities and conditions for the development of youth-led advocacy in Mali. An exploratory study on the modalities, success factors and constraints of youth-led advocacy. The meaningful involvement of young people in the development of programmes and policies that affect them is crucial for the success of programmes […]
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Lessons Learned: Assessing Responses to the Needs of Survivors of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Settings
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Report
The research for change project is a research project focusing on assessing sexual violence responses in the context of disaster-prone and conflict areas. The project was executed by KIT Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and Save the Children. The studies were initially planned in three different countries: Haiti, South Yemen and Northeast Nigeria. The project started […]
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Exploring Mental Health Status and Psychosocial Support among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
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Research article
Rohingya refugees are facing a huge burden of mental health and psychosocial problems that need immediate attention. We found that Rohingya refugees were not comfortable discussing openly with the people of different sexual orientations vis-à-vis their mental health issues. The study recommends strengthening mental health services in accordance with the IASC’s pyramid of multilayered MHPSS […]
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Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Models for Malaria Risk Survey and Health Facility Routine Data in Rwanda
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Research article
Malaria is a life-threatening disease occurring mainly in developing countries. Almost half of the world’s population was at risk of malaria in 2020. Children under five years of age are among the population groups at considerably higher risk of contracting malaria and developing severe disease. Most countries use Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data for […]
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- 2023
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Prices, profit margins and intermediary market power: evidence from the matooke value chain in Uganda
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Research article
There is widespread belief that intermediaries in African agri-food value chains have disproportionate market power. In this paper, the authors examine this belief by uncovering the purchasing and selling prices, costs and profit margins by farmers, intermediaries and retailers in the matooke (cooking banana) value chain in Uganda, and by analysing the prevailing value chain […]
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- 2023
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How context influences the functionality of community-level health governance structures: a case study of community health committees in Kenya
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Research article
a case study of community health committees in Kenya. Community Health Committees (CHCs) are mechanisms through which communities participate in the governance and oversight of community health services. While there is renewed interest in strengthening community participation in the governance of community health services, there is limited evidence on how context influences community-level structures of […]
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Mental Health teaching and research in primary care: Portfolio of Inspiring Practices in Psychosocial Care
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Research article
In this article, we discuss the working process of the research, the participatory and collaborative methodology for the construction of the website for expanded use in Care. Teaching and Research in the fields of Mental Health Primary Care, which we titled ‘Portfolio of Inspiring Practices in Psychosocial care’, as well as the ongoing actions for […]
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Whatever can go wrong, need not go wrong: Open Quality approach for epidemiology
Quality assurance is one of the most important aspects of an epidemiological study, as its validity is largely determined by data quality. The mounting success of quality management in the industrial sector caused a rapid spread throughout manufacturing industries and beyond. Yet, little has been published so far on quality assurance in epidemiology. In this article […]
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Music, tuberculosis and stats: Lessons from a Ugandan pop star
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Article
Epidemiologists Sandra Alba and Amera Khan catch up with Bebe Cool, their superstar collaborator on a passion-fuelled project to combat TB.
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- 2023
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Nodding Syndrome: Clinical Characteristics, Risks Factors, Access to Treatment, and Perceptions in the Greater Mundri Area, South Sudan
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Research article
We conducted a house-to-house survey in the Mundri, Western Equatoria state of South Sudan to investigate the clinical characteristics, risk factors, access to treatment and perceptions about nodding syndrome (NS). In total, 224 NS cases with median age of seizure onset of 10 years were identified. Head nodding only was reported in 50 (22.3%) cases, […]
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- 2023
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A spatial analysis of TB cases and abnormal X-rays detected through active case-finding in Karachi, Pakistan
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Research article
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of avoidable deaths from an infectious disease globally and a large of number of people who develop TB each year remain undiagnosed. Active case-finding has been recommended by the World Health Organization to bridge the case-detection gap for TB in high burden countries. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause […]
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- 2023
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How to scale-up: a comparative case study of scaling up a district health management strengthening intervention in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda
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Research article
The need to scale up public health interventions in low- and middle-income countries to ensure equitable and sustainable impact is widely acknowledged. However, there has been little understanding of how projects have sought to address the importance of scale-up in the design and implementation of their initiatives. This paper aims to gain insight into the […]
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- 2023
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Impact of intensified tuberculosis case finding at health facilities on case notifications in Cameroon: A controlled interrupted time series analysis
There is a large gap between the number of people who develop tuberculosis (TB) and those who are diagnosed, treated and notified, with only an estimated 71% of people with TB notified globally in 2019. Implementing better TB case finding strategies is necessary to close this gap. In Cameroon, 1,597 healthcare workers at 725 health […]
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Advocacy for Safe Abortion Project – Final Evaluation Methods Appendix
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Report
This methods appendix for the final evaluation of the FIGO advocacy for safe abortion project serves to provide an overview of the methodology applied throughout the project in 10 countries. It can be used as a reference document to the individual country and synthesis reports.
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‘I Trust YouthWyze’
Learning from the implementation of the YouthWyze intervention in Malawi and Zambia YouthWyze is an intervention implemented under the Break Free! programme by SRHR Africa Trust (SAT). It aims to disseminate information and education around SRHR and establish linkages to SRH services for young people. This study areas included urban and rural areas as the […]
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- 2022
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Gender Integration and Intersectionality in Food Systems Research for Development
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Research article
This Guidance Note highlights key points for gender integration in the research for development (R4D) project cycle. It uses an intersectional lens to recognise how aspects of social identity such as age or life stage, class, caste, ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation and so forth crosscut and shape gender and power. It provides an overall introduction, guide and set of signposts to help […]
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Advocacy for Safe Abortion: Gynaecologists and Obstetricians for Change (Executive Summary)
Synthesis of key findings across ten countries of the FIGO project on Advocating for Safe Abortion The aim of the synthesis report is to discuss the main achievements and key results across the ten project countries of the Advocating for Safe Abortion Project (ASAP) and to acquire an understanding of the enabling and impeding factors […]
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Plaidoyer Pour L’Avortement Sécurise: Gynécologues-Obstétriciens Pour Le-Changement
Synthèse des constats clés recueillis dans dix pays du projet de plaidoyer pour l’avortement sécurisé mené par la FIGO L’objectif du présent rapport de synthèse est de discuter des principales réalisations et des résultats clés dans les dix pays du Projet de Plaidoyer pour l’Avortement Sécurisé (PPAS), et d’aider à mieux comprendre les facteurs favorables […]
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Advocacy for Safe Abortion: Gynaecologists and Obstetricians for Change
Synthesis of key findings across ten countries of the FIGO project on Advocating for Safe Abortion The aim of the synthesis report is to discuss the main achievements and key results across the ten project countries of the Advocating for Safe Abortion Project (ASAP) and to acquire an understanding of the enabling and impeding factors […]
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Out of Balance: Global–Local Tensions in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and the Emergence of Rival Initiatives in Producing Countries
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Research article
Studies on multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have highlighted the potential for conflict in MSPs, and particularly at the global–local interface has been identified as a key source of tension for partnerships in global value chains. This article uncovers the nature of global–local conflicts, how these conflicts can play out in global MSPs, and how this can […]
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- 2023
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Agriculture & Health are Inseparably Linked in Work Towards Sustainable & Economic Development
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Working Paper
This working paper presents a framework to account for the links between agriculture and health in low- and middle-income countries. It is aimed at supporting public and private sector donors as well as practitioners in the design of strategies, interventions, applied research, and action towards strengthening the resilience of farmers and households by improving agriculture […]
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Feuille de route nationale semencière du Niger
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Review
La Feuille de Route Nationale Semencière (FdRNS) est un document stratégique qui guide les acteurs du La Feuille de Route Nationale Semencière (FdRNS) est un document stratégique qui guide les acteurs du secteur semencier du Niger à œuvrer pour une augmentation de l’accès et de l’utilisation de semences de qualité de variétés améliorées par les […]
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Feuille de route nationale semencière du Mali
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Review
La Feuille de Route Nationale Semencière (FdRNS) est un document stratégique qui guide les acteurs du secteur semencier du Mali à œuvrer pour une augmentation de l’accès et de l’utilisation de semences de qualité de variétés améliorées par les agriculteurs. Le document est une contribution essentielle à l’élaboration des principales politiques publiques agricoles. Il peut […]
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Légumes – Niger
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Arachide – Niger
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Niébé – Niger
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Sorgo – Niger
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Mil – Mali
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Riz – Niger
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Méthodologie
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Légumes – Mali
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Niébé – Mali
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Sorgo – Mali
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Mil – Niger
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Riz – Mali
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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Projet de Développement Intégré des systèmes semenciers au Sahel – Arachide – Mali
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Review
Rapport de la collecte des données primaires pour l’évaluation du secteur des semences ISSD/Sahel
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