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International: The lottery of life l Where to be born 2013
26 November 2012 | country-raking, cross-country, health, indicators, safetyWarren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the United...
Blogpost l New data resources on poverty, gender, jobs, health and more: a quick guide
07 November 2012 | database, employment, equality, financial, gender equality, health, indicators, nutrition , poverty, statistics, world bankYou’ll find a large amount of data available through the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative: for time-series alone, there are some 8,000 indicators for around 200 countries. And we’re often asked: “...
Launch l Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012
07 November 2012 | asia pacific, education, employment, governance, health, nhdr, social indicators, sri lankaRecently the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched the Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012 in the presence of Hon. Dr. Sarath Amunugama, Senior Minister for Monetary Co-operation...
Data Gaps Hampering Efforts to Empower Women | Audit Profession News & Events
20 July 2012 | data, education, employment, gender, health, world bankHow many women in African countries use fertilizer to help grow their vegetables? It’s an important question in agriculture-dominant Africa, where many women are farmers—and where the targeting of...
Access-to-information in Health Care Service Delivery in Papua New Guinea
24 April 2012 | a2i, asia pacific, health, nat initiative, pngGlobal Integrity, in close collaboration with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the Consultative Implementation and Monitoring Council (CIMC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG...
Canada: Equity in Decision-Making and Service Delivery
19 March 2012 | blogpost, evidence-based, health, legislation, nat initiative, policyWellesley and the Equity MAgIC project have been actively working on pushing the equity agenda forward. Our goal is to ensure equity is consistently part of decision-making and service delivery –...
Managing Quality in Health System (India): A Guide for Programme Managers
12 March 2012 | blogpost, framework, health, nat initiativeQuality of care has emerged as the central issue in management of public health programme in India. The policy environment has encouraged policy makers, programme managers and key stakeholders to...
Commentary: Global Health Governance and African Health Systems (Africa Governance Institute, 31 May 2011)
01 July 2011 | health, paris declaration, public policy, public service deliveryThe Africa Governance Institute sheds in this post light on a study by the University of Edinburgh: Global Health Governance and African Health Systems - Issues, Actors, and Outcomes, where they...
Egypt: a sectoral governance assessment towards better MDGs achievement
24 January 2011 | arab states, education, egypt, health, mdg, mdgs, poverty, poverty reduction, sanitation, undp-supported, waterGood Governance and Anti-Corruption measurement research programs are at the core of the Social Contract Centre (SCC)’s efforts to rebuild trust between development stakeholders in Egypt....
Mobile Mapping for Rapid Field Assessment of Health Infrastructure in Indonesia (MobileActive.org, 4 Oct 2010)
04 October 2010 | asia pacific, data collection, health, indonesia, initiative, local, mapping, technologyThe rural population of eastern Indonesia generally has limited access to health services due to rugged topography, poor roads and limited health resources. Moreover, there are no comprehensive...