Publications

As the hiv/aids epidemic and sexually transmitted diseases (stds) continue to advance worldwide, we are learning ever more about how they affect individuals, households, families, communities, organizations and nations. The individual loss has been enormous, particularly in those countries and regions affected early on. aids is increasingly recognized in developing countries as a serious concern for socioeconomic development as a whole. Its impact is seen in family and community structures and relationships and in sectors as varied as education, employment, health care, social welfare, agriculture and the judiciary.

As the hiv/aids epidemic and sexually transmitted diseases (stds) continue to advance worldwide, we are learning ever more about how they affect individuals, households, families, communities, organizations and nations. The individual loss has been enormous, particularly in those countries and regions affected early on. aids is increasingly recognized in developing countries as a serious concern for socioeconomic development as a whole. Its impact is seen in family and community structures and relationships and in sectors as varied as education, employment, health care, social welfare, agriculture and the judiciary. Economic consequences are already apparent. In highly affected countries, the business sector is experiencing increased absenteeism as employees fall ill, care for the sick or attend funerals. Loss of experienced and skilled workers in the formal and informal sectors may lead to lower productivity, savings and investments. In subsistence and small-scale agriculture, loss of labour may result in changes in farming patterns and food shortages.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been helping countries make training and learning materials for many years. A specific section has been created for health learning materials (HLM). Many of these materials are meant for health workers in more remote regions, involved in primary health care – people with fewer resources than their colleagues, and often bigger problems.

L’OMS a soutenu des programmes de formation et de réalisation de matériels éducatifs dans de nombreux pays en développement depuis plusieurs années. Une section spécialisée a été créée pour le MEPS. Le matériel produit par cette section est destiné au personnel de la santé intervenant dans des régions isolées où il doit donner les soins de santé primaires. Ces agents ont souvent moins de ressources que leurs collègues des grandes villes et souvent plus de contraintes. Récemment, beaucoup de matériels éducatifs a été produit. En réalité la quantité a primé sur la qualité.

Globally, around 14 percent of food produced is lost from the post- harvest stage up to, but excluding, the retail stage. Highly nutritious material is lost or nutritionally compromised, affecting the diets of millions of people, including in regions where undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies are endemic (FAO, 2011). The magnitude of the issue led the authors of the Sustainable Development Goals to recommend to “by 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including postharvest losses (Target 12.3)” and a number of new initiatives have been launched in response (United Nations, 2014; FAO, 2015).

The SLEEI project aims to strengthen legal education, which is a crucial part of maintaining the rule of law. Many  Indonesian citizens cannot realise their rights and continue to face a lack of legal certainty:  it is often unclear what laws apply in particular situations and it is hard to predict how the courts or the government will interpret them.

Over the past decade, Ghana’s tilapia farming has experienced tremendous growth in production; however, much of the growth has been driven by large-scale cage farmers around Lake Volta. It remains unclear how this growth is and can be made more inclusive of poor and young women and men.

The purpose of this project was to answer the question: What are the pros and cons of using drones for the delivery of medicines in hard to reach areas ? Are there good examples of using drones for that purpose in LMICs? What questions should one ask when deciding to fund this for the health sector?

The main aim of this operational study was to assess the baseline situation prior to the Champions of Change (CoC) intervention, focused on gender equality and girls’ rights, in Chadiza District, Zambia. The study sought to assess the challenges and opportunities that young people faced during the establishment of a youth movement to influence social norms on gender equality and girls’ rights. It also explored the local context regarding the promotion of and engagement around gender equality and girls’ rights; including community leaders, civil society organizations and government institutions. Lastly, it assessed young people’s attitudes regarding gender equality and women’s rights.

The purpose of this project was To map current active networks on sustainable procurement and waste management in the health sector with a focus on LMICs.

The purpose of this project is to map the current major supply networks and players for Sexual and Reproductive Health supplies with a main focus on contraception and/or safe abortion commodities and supplies.

Seed enterprises would prefer to use public varieties as exclusively as possible for marketing reasons, while the public sector would like to distribute its public good varieties to many seed enterprises.These diverging interests of the public and private sectors require agreements on how public varieties can be accessed (as early generation seed) and used (with different levels of exclusivity). This study focuses on agreements between public plant breeders/research organizations and private seed producers, and hence concentrates on public-private partnership arrangements involving the transfer of released varieties.