https://thesis.eur.nl/col/4340/ List of Publications en https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9200/ Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:01 GMT <div>Chewe, Patrick Mumba</div> Faced with budgetmy constraints, rising population, external pressure, and deteriorating health services, the Zambian government through its Ministry of Health, embarked on a health reform programme with an effort of proriding to the Zambians equity of access to cost-effective quality health care as close to the family as possible. Part of the health reforms has been the introduction of lIser fees 011 medical services. While others may argue that user fees can lead to an improvement of quality of care, efficiency and equity of access to health care, user fees can act as a disincentive to patients and can lead to some people not attending health facilities because they cannot afford. This paper focussed on a gendered assessment of the impact of user fees on health facility lise. The main arguments were that the introduction of user fees has resulted in the decline of use of health facilities and that userfees are more likely to affect women than men. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11316/ Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00:01 GMT <div>Chewe, Patrick Mumba</div> Faced with budgetary constraints, rising population, external pressure, and deteriorating health services, the Zambian government through its Ministry of Health, embarked on a health reform programme with an effort of providing to the Zambians equity of access to cost-effective quality health care as close to the family as possible. Part of the health reforms has been the introduction of user fees on medical services. While others may argue that user fees can lead to an improvement of quality of care, efficiency and equity of access to health care, user fees can act as a disincentive to patients and can lead to some people not attending health facilities because they cannot afford. This paper focused on a gendered assessment of the impact of user fees on health facility use. The main arguments were that the introduction of user fees has resulted in the decline of use of health facilities and that userfees are more likely to affect women than men. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11374/ Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00:01 GMT <div>Matin, Merina</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9743/ Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00:01 GMT <div>Ekambi, Ekambi Emmanuel</div> During the 1950s and 1960s when formerly colonised countries embarked onthe path of development upon political independence, the main concern was economic growth, seen as the most appropriate way to raise the general standard of living andreduce poverty in the Third World. Poverty reduction or eradication was not a directand immediate objective of these development models. Rather it was assumed thatbenefits of economic growth would trickle down to all segments of the population,create employment, raise living standards and reduce poverty (Brohman, 1995: 200). https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/36550/ Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:01 GMT <div>Casella, Deirdre Catherine</div> Increasing recognition of the linkages between population dynamics, human wellbeing and women's human rights at the international level, through conventions such as the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, has been key in stimulating the emergence of increasing numbers of development initiatives which state the empowerment of women among their goals. Many actors involved in food security and poverty alleviation efforts in rural Bangladesh have incorporated a gender aware approach aiming to empower poor women through their policy interventions in an attempt to go beyond the "unexamined assumptions and preconceptions which form the 'common sense' of so much of traditional top-down development planning" (Kabeer, 1996; 5). The World Food Programme (WFP) has intervened in rural Bangladesh through the Vulnerable Group Development Programme (VGD) which targets "destitute" women in the rural areas of Bangladesh with a food aid and development package. However, how a target group such as destitute women and their needs are conceptualized and approached through an intervention results from how the VGD programme is formulated and designed from within the WFP institutional machinery to address the needs of that group. This paper attempts to fill the gap between the actual planning practice of the VGD programme intervention and current theory about the design of gender-sensitive policy. Thus the objective of this study is to compare the approach of the World Food Programme to targeting, needs identification and empowerment of destitute women in rural Bangladesh, as embodied by the VGD programme, to current theory on the formation of gender-aware policy interventions. In comparing the WFP approach to women's economic and social empowerment with current theory from the field of gender planning this study concluded that differences between the two existed and that the WFP use of the concept empowerment was fragmented in its emphasis primarily upon economic forms of empowerment. More intangible forms of empowerment, that are helped or hindered by hierarchical social relations of gender and class in that context, should also be taken into account in the formulation and design of future interventions. A participatory planning process in which members of the target group as well as other interest groups from all levels of society are approached for their views and input would strengthen the potential impact of the programme not only through a more accurate view of the needs of the target group, but also through the identification of potential obstacles or sources of support within the wider community to the programme. Such a process could also contribute towards a increased awareness among men and members of other classes about the gender specific processes of poverty that prevail m rural Bangladesh. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9720/ Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:00:01 GMT <div>Emiru, Monica</div> Child prostitution is just beginning to be addressed in Uganda. It was not directly addressed in 1990, when Uganda decided to amend the laws pertaining to sexual abuse with the view of making the punishment for such crimes more stringent in the hope that it would reduce the commission of such offences. This oversight was probably because the magnitude of the problem was unclear. However, increasing incidences of child prostitution are being reported in the Ugandan press and by other sources on sexual abuse and child labour. This cannot help but have serious effects on the development of these children. Furthermore, these reports also point out that not only is child prostitution affecting the girl child (as originally was the case) but male children too are increasingly involved. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13680/ Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT <div>Onyango-Maina, Dan</div> This study sought to find out whether child development has been mainstreamed in the World Bank's development operations between the years 1970 and 2000. This study is premised on the argument that adequate child development makes both social and economic sense. Child development is fundamental to the social wellbeing, economic prosperity, political stability, and even environmental integrity of a society (Young 1996; Selowsky 1981; UNICEF 1966; Myers 1992; Evans et al. 2000). https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13544/ Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:01 GMT <div>Sapkota, Bhesh Nath</div> This study analyzes the links between social-economic change and changing marriage practices in the Loba population group (hereafter Loba in Lo-kingdom). Since long ago (until recently), single women of Loba group have been marrying more than one man. All brothers of same household have been sharing a common wife. This fraternal polyandry system has been common in Mongol race Tibetan ethnic group -Loba in Nepal- Tibet frontier zone. Such uncommon polyandrous marriage system is now in transition from polyandry to monogamy. In Tibet polyandry is illegal but still practiced, while in Nepal, polyandry is legal and socially recognized by customary laws. The Loba group is living in a high altitude region in the Nepal - Tibet frontier. This study focuses on the shifting trends of Polyandry marriage and their causes. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11315/ Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:00:01 GMT <div>Javier, Dorana C.</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8825/ Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:01 GMT <div>Nartey, Michael Kwesi</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9744/ Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:01 GMT <div>Loaiza, Jose Andres Egas</div> The recognition that Colombia is currently suffering from one of its worst national socio, economic and political crisis is probably the only point where the State, the guen'illa and paramilitary forces, and the civil society of Colombia in general, together with the international organizations and other foreign governments, agree . https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8824/ Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:01 GMT <div>Ndiku, John</div> AIDS was identitied 111 the two countries during a time when the advocacy for structural adjustments by the World Bank and IMF was at its peale This challenged the capacity of governments to provide adequate health care to its citizens. The way the two countries organized to put up a fight against the pandemic in the face of reduced government role in social provisioning shows some differences. It brings to the fore the how strong coordination of all other actors, who became increasingly important, determines the achievement of the set goals. Despite the shift of many services from government to other sectors, such as the civil society and the private sector, the lead role of the government as a coordinator and supervisor remains quiet important. Major differences have been identified in the way the policy environment has been managed. Although striking similarities are evident, a political disengagement characterizes majority of the actions towards I-IIV and AIDS in Kenya and consequently leads to lack of coherent coordination of the activities from the various actors. However, gaps are still evident in both countries in terms of scaling up services to reach the majority of the population in need. Important services such as VeTs, ARV drugs provision and blood safety still need to be scaled up. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/61716/ Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:00:01 GMT <div>Ferreira, Adriana Cristina</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/55419/ Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:00:01 GMT <div>Mece, Merita</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13437/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Idoko, Elizabeth Ebenyi Edith</div>