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When the long-simmering social crises in Arab countries erupted to the surface in 2011, these events immediately shifted government attention from the economic to the social fields. Suddenly it became clear that years of substantial economic growth had not improved social outcomes and Governments...

Briefing Paper Creating and using online surveys. Briefing Paper ... flexibility – compared to a paper questionnaire, an online one can be programmed to adapt to previous answers ... University of Exeter CASCADE project funded by the JISC.

Concerted and creative new solutions are needed to enable women to seize new opportunities in the automation age; without them, women may fall further behind in the world of work. The age of automation, and on the near horizon, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies offer new job opportunities...

Executive Summary Shining a light to spur action on nutrition Malnutrition is a universal issue holding back development with unacceptable human consequences. Yet the opportunity to end malnutrition has never been greater. The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016–2025 and the Sustainable...

Executive Summary The Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free report reveals a mixed story. The global targets set for 2018 have been missed by a wide margin in some subregions and countries. Some countries, however, have shown impressive progress and achieved success across all the target areas. These...

This was the resolution adopted by the General Assembly on April 1, 2016 which set a UN Decade of Action on Nutrition from 2016 to 2025. Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 1 April 2016 70/259. United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016– 2025)

Summary Due to the multiple pathways through which poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) may adversely impact maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes, the time to act has arrived. This briefing paper documents the state of the evidence on WASH and MNH and the Sanitation and Hygiene...