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Education
Guidance Note: Learning and Teaching Materials, Policy and Practice for Provision
Assignment
March 12, 2011

A range of complex policy options are embedded in national systems for providing learning and teaching materials (LTM). The objectives of this Guidance Note are: To identify and analyse the key issues involved in book sector policy, planning and development To help DFID play a constructive role in supporting the liberalisation and development of the… Read more

Learning and teaching materials
Education
Guidance Note: National and International Assessments of Student Achievement
Assignment
March 1, 2011

Evidence on how successful schools are in transforming resources into student learning is essential to guide policy and management decisions regarding educational provision. Assessment of learning, especially in the foundational areas of language and mathematics, is needed at varying points in the educational careers of students. Assessment entails measurement of learning, analysis to diagnose problems,… Read more

assessment, Learning Outcomes
Education
Guidance Note: Engaging the Private Sector in Skills Development
Assignment
March 1, 2011

This guidance note provides information on how the private sector can become involved in skills development; it identifies the contribution the private sector can make to increase both the quality and quantity of provision, complementing as well as challenging state provision. The note outlines the benefits of engaging the private sector and how that can… Read more

Private Sector, skills development
Health
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The Use of Nutrition Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Undernutrition
Assignment
February 9, 2011

A range of nutrition products is increasingly being used to tackle undernutrition, and over the last 10 years the number of products available on the market has multiplied. These include ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs), ready-to-use supplementaryfoods (RUSFs), fortified blended foods (FBFs) and micronutrient powders (MNPs). The aim of this technical report is to provide greater… Read more

Health
Private Sector Engagement in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Maternal and Neonatal Health: A Review of the Evidence
Assignment
December 20, 2010

Most poor people in most poor countries get most of their healthcare from private rather than public sources. This paper reviews current evidence about the way in which the private sector delivers Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) services. The paper focuses on three particular issues – equity, quality and… Read more

Private Sector
Health
A Value for Money Perspective Applied to Global Health Initiative Market Shaping Activities
Assignment
November 3, 2010

This study illustrates the inter-linkages between different market-shaping actors and interventions and the tensions between sometimes conflicting market impact goals. These interdependencies need to be considered when donors seek to measure GHI impact on value-for-money in the health technology space. Price sometimes dominates these discussions, but price needs to be seen in relation to the… Read more

Global Health Initiative
Education
Health
Guidance Note: Education for Children with Disabilities – Improving Access and Quality
Assignment
October 1, 2010

This Guidance Note provides information on how to improve educational access and quality for children with disabilities. It gives an overview of the global context, provides best practice case studies and clearly signposts practical tools and resources. It is in three sections: Background information: a synthesis of information relating to educating children with disabilities which… Read more

Disability
Health
Nutrition
Development of Guidance on indicators for monitoring the impact of DFID’s nutrition strategy
Assignment
August 30, 2010

The purpose of this Guidance Note is to create some consistency and comparability of monitoring among programmes which deliver, or have the potential to deliver, nutrition outcomes. The goal is to enable DFID to demonstrate that their Nutrition Strategy is achieving its stated aims. The Strategy document sets out four ways of attacking undernutrition, which… Read more

Nutrition monitoring
Health
DFID Bilateral Aid Review (BAR) in Health: How to estimate the costs and results of health related activities
Assignment
August 3, 2010

This note is intended to assist country offices in preparing the health components of their funding proposals. The 5 step process involves: 1)    Identifying need and setting the context. 2)    Defining the offer: what interventions are you proposing? a.    Is there a health sector plan that can be used as a basis for support? b.   … Read more

Costing, funding proposal, proposal writing
Health
Annotated Bibliography on Malaria and Health Systems Strengthening
Assignment
June 21, 2010

The material in this bibliography covers: Health system strengthening (HSS) challenges regarding malaria prevention HSS challenges regarding diagnosis and treatment HSS challenges regarding financing of and access to malaria-related health care How malaria may affect HSS Level of health workers suitable for malaria care delivery Barriers to access How to reach the poorest Commodity-related issues… Read more

Health
Product Development Partnerships (PDPs): Lessons from PDPs established to develop new health technologies for neglected diseases
Assignment
June 2, 2010

There has been little historic research and development (R&D) investment in technologies to address developing country health needs. The reasons for this are numerous and include: High capital costs to undertake the R&D and the long time between R&D investment and “commercialisation” of the resulting technology R&D investment not appropriable (in this case, insufficient commercial… Read more

health technologies, Product Development Partnerships, Research and Development

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