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  • Determinants of health seeking behaviour in South Sudan: a cross-sectional household survey

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    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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  • Cocoa Household Income Study (CHIS) Methodology

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    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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  • Drivers of Child Marriage in Eastern and Western provinces in Zambia and effective preventions

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    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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  • Community bylaws concerning sexual and reproductive health and rights in Traditional Authority Chiwalo, Machinga district, southern Malawi

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    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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  • Research for Change: Assessing Responses to the Needs of Survivors of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Settings

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    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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  • A Summary of the National Mixed Methods Study on the Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Barriers on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition in Sierra Leone

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    This study’s purpose is to help improve the nutrition of children and mothers in Sierra Leone. The specific purpose is helping the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to develop a Behavioural Change Communication strategy about maternal infant and young child nutrition. This summary document provides insight in he findings of the study and has recommendations […]

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  • Bulletin 337 – Community financing for health care

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    This Bulletin presents a case study of a Bolivian primary health care project in which two different types of community financing – direct fees and, subsequently, a prepayment plan – were introduced to help finance health services.

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