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This piece was written by Kate Gooding, Gabrielle Appleford, Nicola Wiafe from Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and originally appeared on the OPM website. The success of national policies and plans for universal health coverage depends on implementation. Much of this implementation takes place at the local level, where health services are managed and delivered. This… Read more
This post was written by Emma Gibbs and originally appeared on the Education Development Trust website. Education policymakers are used to seeing results from small scale pilots. But successful local innovations and interventions, which may have impressive evidence from research trials, do not always translate into results at scale. This is an ongoing frustration for… Read more
This blog was written by Keetie Roelen and originally appeared on the IDS website. Never has the need for social protection been greater. In response to the economic and social fallout of Covid-19, almost every country in the world has introduced or expanded programmes that support those who are most vulnerable. Informal and farm workers,… Read more
In the context of Covid-19-related disruption to education systems all over the world, it is crucially important to ensure that the most vulnerable pupils are protected. Girls, children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and those in poor, remote or pastoralist communities are widely acknowledged to be among the most at-risk of experiencing a… Read more
This post was written by Mimi Coultas and originally appeared on the IDS website. On any given day, 300 million people around the world will be menstruating. This normal and natural biological process is a fact of – and fundamental to – life. Everyone who menstruates, including girls, women and non-binary people, has the right… Read more
This was originally posted on DAI’s website. Nepal is in the midst of a demographic shift. Over the past three decades, its fertility rate has declined and population growth has stalled. The country has quickly moved from a high-mortality, high-fertility society to a low-mortality, low-fertility society. Although this shift is an encouraging indicator of development,… Read more
This blog originally appeared on the Open University website and is reposted with their permission Measures to control the current pandemic impact more heavily on everyone whose access to internet and digital technologies is limited. But in some countries, the impact can be particularly devastating, says Anna Colom. The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the inequalities in access to the… Read more
This originally appeared on the Oxford Policy Management website. Examining the barriers and facilitators needed to support front line workers critical to community prevention and management of COVID-19. A key strategy for managing COVID-19 is mitigating community transmission via awareness and preventive methods, for which it is critical to strengthen frontline worker (FLW) preparedness. This… Read more
This blog originally appeared on the Institute of Development Studies website, and was written by Stephen Thompson. In January 2020, a gender and disability workshop was held at IDS as part of the Inclusion Works and Disability Inclusive Development programmes. The aim was to strengthen the inclusion of gender mainstreaming within the disability programmes through raising awareness of gender… Read more
This blog offers advice for practitioners wanting to apply gender transformative approaches to WASH programming. This blog was written by Elaine Mercer for the CLTS Knowledge Hub and originally appeared on their website. It has been partly adapted from the workshop ‘Gender Transformative WASH’ (April 2019) that the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) co-facilitated with Dr Sue… Read more
HEART partners hera‘s Alice Behrendt and Marieke Devillé, under supervision of Dia Timmermans, are currently working on a UNFPA funded systematic review investigating factors determining women’s ability to make their own decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care in lower and middle income settings. The team is working with the UNFPA human… Read more