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Health & Poverty - Activities

HDE’s activities 2001 Poverty and Health

 

In 2001 HDE will be undertaking work in the following three areas:

 

Policy

  • Contributing to OECD’s Development Assistance Committee  (DAC) and UN Development Group (UNDG) work on poverty and health
  • Continuing the ‘Partnership in Health and Poverty’ work with the World Bank, European Commission, the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and other agencies to develop a common research agenda
  • Networking with NGOs, academia, and parliamentarians

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Research

  • Preparing Technical Papers on health in development
  • Collecting Country case studies on health and poverty reduction
  • Preparing a multi-country analysis of national policies on health and poverty reduction

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Developing Tools, Guides and Training

  • Running workshops on Health PRSPs in sub-Saharan Africa, with WHO, WHO’s African Regional Office (AFRO), the World Bank and UNICEF
  • Developing a long-term program in sub-Saharan Africa on ‘capacity building on health in PRSP’
  • Preparing a WHO position paper and technical tools on health in PRSPs at country level
  • Creating tools for integrating gender aspects in health and poverty policies

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