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Experience of ‘hybrid organisations in promoting meaningful rural livelihoods: Lessons from Africa, India and the Americas
(2010)
A Ford Foundation Rural Livelihoods Learning Group carried out a study into ‘hybrid’
organisations and strategies between July 2008 and September 2009. Twenty –one case
studies were completed of hybrid organisations ...
Socialization, legitimation and the transfer of biomedical knowledge to low- and middle-income countries: analyzing the case of emergency medicine in India
(BMC, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Medical specialization is a key feature of biomedicine, and is a growing, but weakly understood
aspect of health systems in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including India. Emergency medicine
is ...
Negotiating power relations, gender equality, and collective agency: are village health committees transformative social spaces in northern India?
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency
for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within ...
Using Theories of Change to inform implementation of health systems research and innovation: experiences of Future Health Systems consortium partners in Bangladesh, India and Uganda
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: The Theory of Change (ToC) is a management and evaluation tool supporting critical thinking in the
design, implementation and evaluation of development programmes. We document the experience of Future ...
Taking stock of 10 years of published research on the ASHA programme: Examining India’s national community health worker programme from a health systems perspective
(Health Research Policy and Systems, 2019)
Background: As India’s accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker (CHW) programme enters its second decade, we take stock of the research undertaken and whether it examines the health systems interfaces ...
How are gender inequalities facing India’s one million ASHAs being addressed? Policy origins and adaptations for the world’s largest all-female community health worker programme
(Human Resources for Health, 2019)
Background: India’s accredited social health activist (ASHA) programme consists of almost one million female community health workers (CHWs). Launched in 2005, there is now an ASHA in almost every village and across many ...
Hospital utilization and out of pocket expenditure in public and private sectors under the universal government health insurance scheme in Chhattisgarh State, India: Lessons for universal health coverage
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Research on impact of publicly financed health insurance has paid relatively little attention
to the nature of healthcare provision the schemes engage. India's National Health Insurance
Scheme or RSBY was made universal ...
Africa–India nuclear cooperation: pragmatism, principle, post-colonialism and the Pelindaba Treaty
(Routledge, 2011)
The United States India nuclear agreement, announced in 2005, was a first step
in the process to normalise India’s international nuclear relations despite the fact
that India is not a party to the Treaty on the ...
Negotiating power relations, gender equality, and collective agency: are village health committees transformative social spaces in northern India?
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency
for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within ...
Accountability and the right to food: A comparative study of India and South Africa
(Food Security SA Working Paper Series, 2018)
It remains a great source of concern that, as richly endowed as the world is, each day millions of people go to sleep hungry and almost 870 million people, particularly in developing countries, are chronically undernourished. ...