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Would you rather give birth in 1900 or 2018? And what can we learn from Sweden?
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July 24, 2019

This blog, written by Alex Jones, originally appeared on the Oxford Policy Management website and is reposted with their permission. The answer to the question ‘would you rather give birth in 1900 or 2018’ might depend on where in the world you are. In 1900 in Sweden, before the construction of modern hospitals or the… Read more

Childbirth, maternal and child health
Health
Exploring the importance of effective supply chain management in health
HEART talks
July 16, 2019

Vimal Kumar, principal consultant in the Oxford Policy Management Health team, discusses the importance of procurement and supply chain management in supporting effective policy reforms. Ensuring availability, affordability, and quality of commodities (for example medicines) to provide services to the patients is one of the key outcomes which procurement and supply chain management establishes. This… Read more

Education
Technology-Supported Professional Development for Teachers: Lessons from Developing Countries
Document Library
August 4, 2018

Based on the lessons that emerged from the UN Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All movement 2000–2015, there is now a global consensus that universal school enrolment is necessary but not sufficient for children to learn. This report captures what might be learnt from a selection of the world’s most interesting examples of technology-assisted in-service professional development in lower-income countries… Read more

Access to education, edtech, education technology
Education
Social Protection
Support to Sierra Leone Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment Programme (SAGE): Scoping and Design Report
Assignment
May 4, 2018

SAGE is a DFID supported, integrated programme to improve the lives of adolescent girls, responding to the multiple and interrelated disadvantages they face. It comprises two components: Delivery of integrated services for vulnerable adolescent girls through a safe spaces approach, including enhancing their access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education and services. Support for… Read more

Adolescents, Female Empowerment, Girls' Education, programme design, safe spaces, SAGE, Sexual and reproductive health
Health
The free healthcare initiative in Sierra Leone: Evaluating a health system reform, 2010‐ 2015
Document Library
February 14, 2018

This article presents the findings of a theory‐based evaluation of the Sierra Leone Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI), using mixed methods. Analytical approaches included time‐series analysis of national survey data to examine mortality and morbidity trends, as well as modelling of impact using the Lives Saved Tool and expenditure trend analysis. We find that the… Read more

cost‐effectiveness, fee exemption, Sierra Leone
Water and Sanitation
Scoping Urban Sanitation Services in Three Countries
Document Library
September 18, 2017

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

Sustainable Development Goals, Water Policy
Water and Sanitation
Sustainability Assessment of Rural Water Service Delivery Models: Findings of a Multi-Country Review
Document Library
September 18, 2017

With 2.1 billion people – mostly in rural areas – lacking safely managed drinking water and reported low rural water supply functionality rates, the Sustainable Development Goals pose a triple challenge: to reach unserved mostly rural population groups, to raise service levels, and to sustain existing and future services. This assessment uses a multi-country case… Read more

WASH, Water Policy, Water Resources
Water and Sanitation
Situation Analysis of the Urban Sanitation Sector in Ghana
Document Library
September 18, 2017

This report, part of WSUP’s Urban Sanitation Research Initiative, explores the background to the urban sanitation sector in Ghana. Ghana is a fast-growing economy that has made notable progress in reducing poverty but urban infrastructure has not kept pace with cities’ expansion and high levels of rural-urban migration. Only a fraction of urban residents use… Read more

Faecal Sludge Management, Sanitation, Sanitation Policy, Urban Sanitation
Education
Higher education, developmental leadership and good governance
Helpdesk Report
September 15, 2017

The last decade has witnessed renewed interest in the social benefits of higher education, with recent research suggesting that universities have a role in nurturing developmental leaders who enable positive change and better governance in low-income and conflict-affected countries (Brannelly et al, 2011b). This review summarises available evidence on the relationship between higher education, developmental… Read more

Education, governance
Nutrition
Integrated Evaluation Report of the WINNN Programme: ORIE
Assignment
August 2, 2017

ORIE research on WINNN consisted of operations research, a mixed-methods impact evaluation, economic evaluation, and gender analysis which were conducted over a period of five years. This report integrates findings from this research to provide a high-level summary of WINNN’s achievements along with an overview of the key messages and recommendations that emerge from research… Read more

Nutrition
Strengthening nutrition sector governance: Lessons from the WINNN programme
Assignment
August 1, 2017

This brief is produced by the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and it summarises the learning about strengthening nutrition sector governance from the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme implemented in five states in northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Yobe). Key messages… Read more

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