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Famine: Lessons Learned

Published by: IDS

Famine: Lessons Learned was produced as the world was responding to four potential famines simultaneously – in Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen and Somalia.

Universal Health Coverage, Economic Slowdown and System Resilience: Africa’s Policy Dilemma

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) has become a dominant policy reoccupation within the global health community. For Africa, progress towards UHC involves ambitious goals for expanding access to a range of effective health services, a substantial increase in health expenditure, and establishing a greater reliance on prepayment and pooling mechanisms to finance healthcare.

Beyond Pilotitis: Taking Digital Health Interventions to the National Level in China and Uganda

Published by: BioMed Central

Innovation theory has focused on the adoption of new products or services by individuals and their market-driven diffusion to the population at large. However, major health sector innovations typically emerge from negotiations between diverse stakeholders who compete to impose or at least prioritise their preferred version of that innovation.

Organisational Challenges of Moroccan Dairy Cooperatives and the Institutional Environment

Marketing cooperatives in developing and transition countries face challenges when they aim to strengthen their competitiveness. One of these challenges relates to improving the quality of the products delivered by their members. Another challenge relates to the financial sustainability of the cooperative, as cooperatives have to choose between paying out a surplus to members and retaining it in the organisation. As these problems are not specific to one organisation, and public policies often affect the scope for individual cooperatives, we explore how the institutional environment helps in reducing those challenges.

Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Urban Humanitarian Crises: The Case of Gaza

Published by: IIED

Gaza, a mostly urban and densely populated area, chronically experiences complex emergencies, with bouts of acute violence. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is aggravated by the exposure to ongoing and acute political violence.

The Role of Social and Political Action in Advancing Women’s Rights, Empowerment, and Accountability to Women

Published by: IDS

Through the lens of four case studies focused on women’s political participation (Palestine and Sierra Leone), and the passage of domestic violence law (Brazil and South Africa), this paper looks at the role of social and political action in advancing women’s rights.