Publications
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The Resilience Journey Empathy Generation (Phase 1)
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The Resilience Journey Empathy Generation (Phase 1) – Executive Summary
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Not everything that counts can be counted: mixed methods impact evaluations in global health
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Completeness of TB notification: inventory studies and capture-recapture analyses, six European Union countries, 2014 to 2016
In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Action Framework towards TB elimination in low-incidence countries, and in 2016, the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) published the Roadmap to implement the tuberculosis action plan for the WHO European Region 2016-2020: Towards ending TB and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. They outline blueprints to carry out the WHO’s global End TB Strategy in Europe and to reach the sustainable development goal (SDG) target for tuberculosis (TB). Key strategic targets include reduction of global TB incidence by 80% in 2030 and 90% in 2035, compared with 2015. In the WHO European Region, the targets include a 25% reduction in TB incidence rate by the year 2020 compared with 2016. TB incidence can be derived from TB notification rates, assuming complete case detection and reporting. This is considered a strong assumption unlikely to hold in many settings, including European Union (EU) countries. Several studies across the EU/EEA, e.g. those from France, Spain, Italy and Romania, have revealed high rates of under-reporting.
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La condition des femmes en Afrique de l’Ouest (rapport régional CEDEAO)
Ce Rapport régional sur la condition des femmes africaines a pour ambition de contribuer à la réalisation et à la promotion des droits des femmes et des filles, notamment dans le domaine de la santé et des droits sexuels et procréatifs dans la région de l’Afrique de l’Ouest.
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Monitoring the Utilisation of Primary Care Services in Health Pooled Fund Supported Counties in South Sudan
KIT was tasked to analyse and report on utilisation of primary health care services in Health Pooled Fund supported geographical areas in South Sudan. The main objective of this assessment was to identify spatial and temporal trends of service utilisation that could be indicative of limitations in access to healthcare. Facility-based and community-based primary care data were evaluated and compared to identify dependencies between community- and facility-based health care delivery models.
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Access to Health Care in South Sudan: A Qualitative Analysis of Health Pooled Fund supported counties
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Regional Context Analysis of SRHR in sub-Saharan Africa
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Completeness of TB notification in Portugal, 2015: an inventory and capture-recapture study
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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Completeness of tuberculosis (TB) notification: inventory studies and capture-recapture analyses, six European Union countries, 2014 to 2016
Progress towards the World Health Organization’s End TB Strategy is monitored by assessing tuberculosis (TB) incidence, often derived from TB notification, assuming complete case detection and reporting. This assumption is unlikely to hold in many settings, including European Union (EU) countries.
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The East African Community And Women And Girls’ Rights (Factsheet)
The East African Community (EAC) has a strong normative framework on gender equality and women and girls’ rights and is increasingly involved in promoting this agenda. The legal and institutional framework is evolving, showing recognition of the Maputo Protocol, the Maputo Plan of Action and the International Conference on Population and Development commitments, among others. This factsheet aims to provide insight into the role of the EAC and its member states in advancing women and girls’ rights in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
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Analysis of the income gap of cocoa producing households in Côte d’Ivoire
Comparison of actual incomes with the Living Income Benchmark
The Living Income Community of Practice, co-hosted by GIZ, ISEAL and the Sustainable Food Lab and the GIZ Programme “Sustainable Supply Chains and Standards” are currently calculating ‘Living Income’ Benchmarks for the cocoa producing regions in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
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What do participatory approaches have to offer the measurement of empowerment of women and girls
KIT Working Paper
How development programmes choose to measure the empowerment of women and girls impacts whether an intervention ultimately contributes to or impedes their empowerment. In this paper, KIT Royal Tropical Institute provides insight and guidance on the value of participatory approaches, those that ground the measurement of empowerment in the lives and perspectives of women and girls.
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Midline study in Nametil, Mogovolas District – Mozambique
Exploring possible changes in relation to child marriage and teenage pregnancy in Mozambique two and half years into the Yes I Do programme
This report contains the results of the Yes I Do midline study conducted in Nametil, the capital of Mogovolas District, Mozambique between May and July 2018. The purpose of the study is to provide insight into possible changes in relation to child marriage and teenage pregnancy and their underlying causes since the start of the Yes I Do programme in 2016.
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Ethiopia – Amhara Region The situation of child marriage in Qewet and Bahir Dar Zurida: a focus on gender roles, parenting and young people’s future perspectives
This report presents a qualitative study conducted as part of the research component of the Yes I Do programme in Ethiopia, which is being implemented in the Amhara region from 2016 until 2020. This introduction starts with a brief background of the Yes I Do programme and the objectives of the research component, after which the focus of this qualitative study, including how and why the themes addressed were selected, is presented.
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Adolescent Research in Brief: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in low- and middle-income countries
A synthesis of research findings for improved program development and implementation
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A KIT Working Paper: Make Hay While the Sun Shines
Gendered opportunities & challenges to innovation in forage production in Afghanistan
This working paper discusses the interface between gender and agricultural innovation systems. More specifically, the working paper investigates how gender norms and roles influence social relations between actors in forage innovation systems in rural Afghanistan. In this regard, the paper firstly explores how gender roles and norms shape the relationships and interactions between different farmers, as well as between farmers and other actors in selected forage innovation systems. Secondly, the paper highlights how gender relations shape women and men farmers’ opportunities to learn about and adopt agricultural innovations in rural Afghanistan.
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The Politics of the Basic Benefit Package Health Reforms in Tajikistan
Health reform is a fundamentally political process. Yet, evidence on the interplay between domestic politics, international aid and the technical dimensions of health systems, particularly in the former Soviet Union and Central Asia, remains limited.
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Performance-based financing in three humanitarian settings: principles and pragmatism
Performance based financing (PBF) has been increasingly implemented across low and middleincome countries, including in fragile and humanitarian settings, which present specific features likely to require adaptation and to influence implementation of any health financing programme.
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Aid, social capital and local collective action: attitudes towards community-based health funds and village organizations in Rushan, Tajikistan
Despite overwhelming interest in the role of social capital in international development, attention to the interplay of community-based development aid with local collective-action dynamics in Central Asia and particularly Tajikistan has remained limited.