Publications

Churches can no longer ignore the growing challenges caused by unsustainable population growth on the continent. Unless the church starts addressing the issue of population and development urgently and adequately, it will not be able to offer transformative guidance to its followers on the continent. This case study presents the way in which the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) has raised this potential by encouraging their members to think about it and develop their own context-specific approaches.

Agricultural production frequently competes with forest conservation. The issue is particularly significant in developing countries where economic pressures frequently drive projects oriented at short-term economic gains at the expense of deforestation and long-term sustainable development. This working paper offers a review of business models combining agriculture with conservation objectives and portrays two illustrative case studies from the cocoa and coffee value chains.

This book marks a shift away from a typical, instrumentalist outlook focused on how gender analysis can contribute to research objectives, such as improved productivity. Contributors intentionally flip the question to ask: How does agricultural and environmental research and development contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment? By reframing the analysis, the book puts gender equality and women’s empowerment at the center of agricultural development.

For several years, the faith community has intensively worked with other civil society members in the East African region to advocate for and mobilise support for the SRHR Bill of the East Africa Community. Faith to Action Network facilitated faith leadership and faith community interactions with the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), in order to expand the Bill’s coverage and address the contentious issues. This case study documents the history of the Bill, and the advocacy strategies and actions that aimed to get the EAC SRHR Bill re‐tabled and adopted.

Epidemiologist Sandra Alba is part of a team that developed a new set of guidelines to address issues of research integrity and fairness in international health research collaborations. She explains what the guidelines hope to achieve, and how.

To improve the delivery of health interventions, people-centred approaches are needed, both to ensure that interventions are accessible and address health care needs appropriately. There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating that the feedback of patients and community members can improve programmatic activities and lead to the more equitable and comprehensive distribution of programme interventions.

This learning brief looks at the pilots of several Beneficiary Feedback Mechanisms across countries in the Ascend project.

Assessment of mobile migrant population size, demographics, turnover, movement, and priority health needs in Suriname.

The humanitarian crisis in Iraq remains one of the largest and most unstable in the world. In 2014, over 2.5 million civilians were displaced in Iraq; between 2015 and 2017 more than 3 million people continued to be displaced. While health-related research concerning internally displaced persons (IDPs) population has been conducted in many settings, very few have looked at the quality of care delivered in primary health care centres (PHCC) inside camps.

Partnership is a cornerstone in achieving civil society goals and impact. Mobilising the right and complementary partners results in better use of resources, harnessing of expertise, increased confidence and more progress towards ensuring that women and girls can realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights, amongst others by accessing information, health and services. This paper explores the experience of the State of the African Woman campaign on civil society mobilisation and organising at national, continental and international levels, to influence ICPD+25 Review process and related decision-making processes.

This document summarizes the findings from the mobile migrant study which was conducted at the request of Suriname’s Malaria Program and looked into the ASM population’s demography, movements, health perceptions, and healthcare seeking behaviours (the full report is linked below).

Community health workers (CHWs) are crucial for increasing access to health services to communities. Due to decades of conflict and under-funding, access to health care in South Sudan remains severely limited. To improve equitable access to healthcare, the government has introduced “the Boma Health Initiative (BHI)”, a strategy to harmonise community health programmes across the country.

This case illustrates the complex interlinkages between child marriage, early pregnancy, female genital mutilation (FGM) and the underlying gender inequality that contributes to sustaining harmful practices and women and girls’ exposure to poor health, discrimination, social stigma, and exclusion.

Results of the Yes I Do programme (2016–2020) in Rembang, Indonesia

Indonesia faces a growing informal sector in the wake of implementing a national social health insurance system—Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN)—that supersedes the vertical programmes historically tied to informal employment.

Armed with the barrel of the pen, journalists can change the world! This has been proven true for a vibrant network of journalists from across the continent who passionately report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues. After years of engagement with these journalists, the coverage of SRHR issues continues to increase reaching an even wider audience.

The priority-setting process in the context of the Health Pooled Fund (HPF) is challenged by data limitations, minimal stewardship of the Ministry of Health (MoH) and competing interests among donors, HPF management, MoH, local authorities and implementing partners.