Publications
Publications overview
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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 […]
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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 […]
- 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 […]
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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. […]
- Year of publication
- 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, […]
- Year of publication
- 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. […]
- Year of publication
- 2023
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