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Many paths, one direction: Strategies for achieving Universal Health Coverage

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Voices & Views

Each year, nearly 100 million people find themselves pushed into extreme poverty because of health-related expenditures. Capacity4dev spoke to health programme managers at the EU Delegations to Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa and...

Africa
Nigeria
South Africa
+4
Ethiopia
Asia
Timor-Leste
Oceania
Health
Health policies & policy dialogue
Health Systems Strengthening
+1
Universal health coverage - equity

A Delegation Perspective on Implementing the GAP

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Voices & Views

One year into the EU’s second Gender Action Plan (GAP), which stepped up ambitions to make all the EU’s external action gender-sensitive, what is happening on the ground?

Africa
Cabo Verde
Democratic Republic of the Congo
+3
Lesotho
Asia
Afghanistan
Gender

Views from the Field: In Conversation with the Foreign Minister and EU Ambassador to Timor-Leste

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Voices & Views

Emerging from over two decades of conflict and instability, in May 2002 the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the 21st century’s first new sovereign state. Since then the country’s government – with assistance from the...

Asia
Timor-Leste
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
Development Policy
+3
Environment & green economy
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Forests

Eliminating Corruption to Enable Development

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Voices & Views

Corruption ranges from bribery to collusion to straightforward theft, but as envelopes of cash evolve into more sophisticated mechanisms, efforts to prevent corruption and build transparency must keep up. “We see new forms of...

Asia
Afghanistan
Maldives
+1
Europe
Governance & Corruption

The Land-Drugs Nexus

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Voices & Views

"For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consultant, Tom Kramer, from the Transnational Institute. And therein lies one of the...

Asia
Afghanistan
Myanmar
Agriculture & Rural Development
Fisheries

Transformative Change through Social Protection?

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Voices & Views

A study of five social protection projects in South Asia has found they struggled to create transformative change, and were unable to tackle the persistent discrimination driving poverty and social exclusion.

Asia
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
+2
India
Nepal
Employment & VET
Social Protection and Inclusion

Anti-corruption reforms in Afghanistan. What does the research tell us?

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Voices & Views

A leading Afghanistan expert provided key advice related to aid delivery and institutional support in Afghanistan at a conference named “Corruption in Afghanistan: What do we know, how do we go forward?” held in Brussels at the...

Asia
Afghanistan
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
+3
Governance & Corruption
Knowledge Management
Learning

Post-Conflict Environments Benefit from Better Informed Donors

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Voices & Views

Information gathering and time spent understanding the local context are key to operational success in fragile and post-conflict situations, according to a representative of the European Union Delegation to Afghanistan.

Asia
Afghanistan
Capacity Development
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Knowledge Management
+1
Learning