Can improved sanitation make children healthier? - eldis (2010/3/15)
Some 250,000 Ethiopian children die each year from poor sanitation, hygiene and water. Ethiopia has ambitious plans to ensure universal access to pit ...

Time to end urban poor people's marginalisation - eldis (2010/3/15)
Some 900 million people live in what UN-Habitat calls'slums'. Ignored by markets which favour areas with well-defined property rights, ...

Improving food security and rural development through relevant basic education - eldis (2010/3/15)
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Educational deprivation in South Africa and India - eldis (2010/3/15)
Across the globe, differences of gender, class, race, caste and ethnicity continue to create inequalities. Both India and South Africa have governments ...

Improving education sector responses to earthquakes in Pakistan - eldis (2010/3/15)
Pakistan was particularly hard hit by the earthquake that devastated the region in 2005. Children and youth made up almost 50 percent of those affected, ...

Challenges of assuring quality higher education - eldis (2010/3/15)
The number of private higher education providers, including transnational educational institutions, is growing rapidly. National authorities responsible ...

Tackling corruption in education - eldis (2010/3/15)
Corruption affects the delivery of education by reducing both its quality and the resources available, in terms of access and availability. It also ...

Millennium Development Goal'success'can hide health inequities - eldis (2010/3/15)
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Global public action needs to tackle global health policies - eldis (2010/3/15)
Our understanding of global public action is dominated by experiences from global campaigns and a focus on human rights, environmental and gender issues. ...

Mental health in post-conflict Southern Sudan - eldis (2010/3/15)
Sudan's two decades of civil war, which ended in 2005, involved widespread violence and large-scale forced migration. This had traumatic impacts ...

Community health workers monitor neonatal health in Bangladesh - eldis (2010/3/15)
Four million babies die each year in their first four weeks of life. Better neonatal survival requires cost-effective action at the community level ...

Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania - eldis (2010/3/15)
Maasai women are among the poorest and most marginalised groups in Tanzanian society. A local women-led organisation&ndash; the Pastoral Women's ...

Juggling between higher levels of development and a carbon-constrained world. - eldis (2010/3/15)
This policy briefing discusses the dilemma emerging economies like China, India and South Africa are facing in increasing their levels of development. ...

China's strategic approach, targets, focus, and measures to developing a low carbon economy - eldis (2010/3/15)
This China sustainable development strategy report 2009, points out that climate change has become the most significant environment and development challenge ...

Trajectories for China's transition to low carbon development - eldis (2010/3/15)
This report describes China's transition to low carbon development in the face of its continuous economic growth and increase in energy demand most of ...

Building a framework for violence prevention - eldis (2010/3/15)
This programme seeks to provide a broad variety of interventions, in a number of settings, as a complement to the security sector reform approach. ...

Increasing a gender perspective in small arms control - eldis (2010/3/15)
This article,'Women, men and gun violence: options for action', forms part of a larger publication on directions for the reduction of small arms ...

Xenophobic violence in South Africa: causes and solutions - eldis (2010/3/15)
This article is a record of a presentation made by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to the South African Parliament. ...

The role of marriage, education and mother tongue in obtaining land rights for women - eldis (2010/3/15)
This report explores Peruvian land formalisation law, arguing that it is gender neutral. The paper examines land ownership in Peru from a gender perspective, ...

A review of Norway's Gender Action Plan - eldis (2010/3/15)
This paper investigates to what extent Norway has contributed to development results for women's rights and gender equality in selected partner ...