Publications
Publications overview
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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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 2024
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Cocoa household income study approach
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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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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 […]
- Year of publication
- 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. […]
- Year of publication
- 2024
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