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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated and scaled up the use of technology for education across Indonesia. Due to the closure of schools, in Indonesia and globally, distance or remote learning has been one of the main options for teaching and learning activities over the last year. Remote learning is defined as a learning process that… Read more
In early 2017, WSUP commissioned a situation analysis of urban sanitation services in Bangladesh, Ghana and Kenya, in order to identify potential research areas as part of the DFID-funded Urban Sanitation Research Initiative. Here, Goufrane Mansour (Aguaconsult, lead expert for the study) and Sam Drabble (WSUP, Research and Evaluation Manager) reflect on common findings across the three… Read more
The Survey is a third in the series after similar surveys for the African and Caribbean regions completed in 2008 and 2009 ). The main objective of the Survey is to create a consolidated source of information on the experiences of using ICTs for Education in the South Asian region, as a baseline for future… Read more
This report synthesises the findings from a survey that was initiated by the Information for Development Program (info Dev), a multi-donor partnership housed at the World Bank which investigates issues related to the effective and appropriate use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries. The survey was undertaken in response to needs expressed… Read more
Unmet need for family planning is defined using survey data as the percentage of women who do not want to become pregnant but are not using contraception. Though the concept seems straightforward, the calculation is extraordinarily complex and has changed over time. To address these issues, DHS revised the definition of unmet need in 2012…. Read more
Impact 2 is a tool that enables you to estimate your past, current and future contributions to national family planning (FP) use, contraceptive prevalence, and safe abortion or post-abortion care (PAC) services nationally. In addition, it can be used to estimate the wider health, demographic, and economic impacts of these services. It is useful for:… Read more
Maternal and child undernutrition was the subject of a Series of papers in The Lancet in 2008. Five years after the initial series, we re-evaluate the problems of maternal and child undernutrition and also examine the growing problems of overweight and obesity for women and children, and their consequences in low-income and middle-income countries. Many… Read more
This summary report presents key findings from ICRW’s evaluation study in five settings. India’s National AIDS Control Programme (NACO) recognises stigma as a key driver of HIV infection and a barrier to treatment. To inform the latest national plan, and with support from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) has:… Read more