Wednesday, June 9, 2021
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Despite constituting almost half of the qualified health workforce in India, female health workers face a...
Thursday, March 25, 2021
In the last few decades, Lao PDR has seen high economic growth and poverty reduction and yet, a fifth of the population continues to live below the national poverty line. Maternal and child mortality are high compared to other countries in Southeast Asia...
Friday, May 22, 2020
As the gears of the economy begin to spin again, one expert is warning that without more support for child care, a major group could be left out of the recovery: women. Economist Armine Yalnizyan said we need an economic "she-covery" — one that focuses...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
India’s progress on scaling up health and nutrition services was remarkable in the pre-pandemic period. The gains made in these past years are important to preserve. Rasmi Avula, Supreet Kaur and Purnima Menon discuss the importance of existing state...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Initiatives such as comprehensive training and engaging with and mobilising communities have helped boost the performance of anganwadi centres in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, we found, as part of a project to document innovations in maternal and child...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
The Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend project (SWEDD) project is financed by the World Bank and implemented by the governments of Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. It aims to empower women and...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
BLOG: Bringing up children can be seen as the sole responsibility of families or as a role shared and supported by society as a whole—countries can be more or less ‘family-friendly’. The early period of childhoodl is critical, as parents balance time...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
30-year-old, Suraida Tugay was nine months pregnant as an ongoing conflict in Maguindanao displaced her and her family.UNFPA estimates that there could be as many as 1,800 pregnant women among the affected population, with around 600 expected to deliver...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
BLOG: In parts of the tropics, exposure to extreme temperature or rainfall in early life is associated with fewer years of schooling in later childhood. As climate change leads to increasingly severe heat waves, floods, droughts, and hurricanes, it is...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
A social protection scheme to support the health of expectant and new mothers and their babies in western Kenya is getting underway. The County Government of Vihiga, UNICEF Kenya and Development Pathways are working to deliver a maternal health...