30 January 2015
To make universal health coverage (UHC) truly universal we need an approach which places gender and power at the centre of our analysis. This means we need a discussion about who is included, how health is defined, what coverage entails and whether equity is ensured. To celebrate Universal Health Coverage Day RinGs has put together [...]
Categories: Access to medicines, Equity, Health, Health Systems, Sexual and Reproductive Health0 Comments
26 January 2015
As IDS approaches its 50th Anniversary under the leadership of a new Director, Professor Melissa Leach, IDS is also embarking on an exciting new strategic research agenda focusing on reducing inequality, accelerating environmental sustainability and building inclusive and secure societies. We are seeking to appoint new Fellows to join us at this exciting time of [...]
Categories: Education, Health, Nutrition0 Comments
23 January 2015
The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty. We’re ending the need for aid by creating jobs, unlocking the potential of girls and women and helping to save lives when humanitarian emergencies hit. DFID is seeking to fill 2 vacancies on its independent external Research Advisory Group (RAG) in Humanitarian Research for [...]
Categories: Education0 Comments
20 January 2015
The HEART Topic Guide on Early Childhood Development (ECD) offers brief summaries of key research, evaluations and case studies, as well as links to more specialist resources relevant to this vision for ECD. It draws on a very broad range of published research and policy studies, spanning health; nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); social [...]
Categories: Education, Health, Nutrition0 Comments
19 January 2015
Dr Miriam Taegtmeyer and Dr Sally Theobald from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine recently gave a presentation to DFID advisors on understanding and developing the role of close-to-community providers of health care in preventing, diagnosing, and treating major illnesses and health conditions in rural and urban areas in Africa and Asia. They outlined findings to [...]
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19 January 2015
In this short interview Purna Kumar Shrestha, Global Education Lead, Voluntary Services Overseas International (VSO) talks about the VSO project in Ghana ‘Tackling Education Needs Inclusively (TENI)‘. TENI aims to improve the quality of education received by more than 50,000 children in northern Ghana. The programme is specifically focused on girls and disabled children. TENI [...]
Categories: Access and Participation, Education0 Comments
16 January 2015
In the field of health systems research there have been some promising moves towards acknowledging and celebrating the role of people and communities. Most recently the Cape Town Statement from the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research provides a political agenda for future work in which it is acknowledged that: “The drive towards universal health [...]
Categories: Health, Health Systems, HIV and AIDS0 Comments
15 January 2015
In this short interview Pauline Rose, Professor of International Education, University of Cambridge, talks about the rights of children with disabilities to an education. As an education and development expert, Pauline discusses how disability is a key issue in education, with many children with disabilities being excluded from school. There is a paucity of evidence on how [...]
Categories: Access and Participation, Education0 Comments
15 January 2015
The evidence reviewed for this paper suggests that: Many countries implement CBE programmes and they are very diverse; some have been initiated by the state and others by non state actors such as non government organisations. Some CBE programmes are time bound and some are on-going. A number of countries have more than one CBE [...]
Categories: Access and Participation, Curriculum, Learning and Teaching, Education, Equity, Helpdesk Reports, Publications0 Comments
15 January 2015
PRRINN-MNCH has made a significant contribution to improved maternal and child health in Northern Nigeria and has contributed to building stronger health systems and capacity in the four programme States. The programme adopted a comprehensive health systems approach for strengthening primary health care, given the State of health systems in Northern Nigeria at the beginning [...]
Categories: Assignment Reports, Health, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Project completion reports0 Comments
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