Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.