Health systems effects of successive emergency health and nutrition projects: an embedded retrospective case study analysis in Sudan and Pakistan Abstract Despite increasing attention to the concept of a humanitarian-development nexus in recent years, limited research is available to improve health...
Relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability are widely used evaluation criteria, particularly in international development co-operation. They help to determine the merit or worth of various interventions, such as strategies, policies, programmes or projects. This...
Webinar - September 9, 2020 |12:00 PM to 1:30 PM UTC| During its peak, school closures from COVID-19 put nearly 1.6 billion children out of school, including 767 million girls. From gender-based violence to forced marriage and early pregnancy, girls face heightened challenges when schools are closed...
The race is on to secure vaccines that will protect people from COVID-19. But it’s already become apparent that there is gross inequality playing out in the procurement and distribution of the new drugs. One reason is intellectual property rights. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is considering...
Since the birth of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, most member states have had to abide by the Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which protects patents and copyrights including those applicable to new diagnostics, vaccines, medicines and medical supplies...
Thank you for joining UNICEF Evaluation Office and Office of Research-Innocenti for the first #BOURE2020 webinar series presenting "The Impact of the Birth Registration Programme in Nigeria: Evidence, Practice and Innovations", that took place on Thursday, 18th February 2021 at 8-9AM PST | 11AM-12PM...
Thank you for joining the UNICEF Evaluation Office and Office of Research-Innocenti for the second #BOURE2020 webinar series presenting "Strengthening Community Linkages to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak Preparedness in the most-at-risk districts in Uganda", on 25 February 2021 (Thursday), 8-9AM...
During the pandemic, I decided to build a fun and educational game to teach others about the gut microbiome. I first created a board game and then worked with a team of developers to convert it into an app. It's called "racing the tract " and is now available for free on the apple and android apps...
2020 witnessed unprecedented scientific progress in developing a vaccine to control the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This has led to the development of a range of effective vaccines spanning from traditional formulations to new ones, such as the novel mRNA or DNA-based vaccines. Many...