77. Poverty Reduction and National Budgets
The availability and allocation of budgetary resources says a lot about whether, how, and to what extent a government is committed and determined to implement its pro-poor policies. National budgets…
76. Stepping into the New Age of the Right to Nutrition: Snail Pace Progress?
The Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Vol.42, No.3, May/June 2003. The Situation The Challenge: what now has to change The Right to adequate Nutrition The key issues to fight for…
75. Beyond Capacity Analysis: Additional Elements of a Human Rights-based Development Strategy
1. The ‘chronic emergency’ situation in the health, nutrition, education and other service sectors in an important number of the developing countries only sporadically. becomes a ‘loud emergency’. However, if…
74. Some Pearls of Wisdom about Health care Financing
1. Equality in health means equal access for equal need. 2. Near-zero-priced public services for the very poor is an essential public policy towards equity. 3. Government intervention in the…
73. Money is Tinted by the Colour from where it comes from or Children are not an Issue of Charity, Ronald! They are a Matter of Justice
SCN News, No.25, Gva., 2002. This is one more post-mortem to the partially-called-off UNICEF McDonalds (public-private) partnership to which so many of us reacted. I hesitate a bit philosophising about…
72. Putting Equity and Human Rights in Health on the Agenda: The Role of NGOs
Introduction The background The concept of Human Rights in health and why it is used Experiences from some NGOs already using the Equity/Human Rights approach Practical ways for NGOs to…
71. ‘Elemental Watson’: The Health Sector Reform’s faulty logic
· Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out a health sector reform; they argue that by doing so, they have decentralized and devolved the governance of…
70. Aiming at the Target: What’s Left for the Devil to Advocate?
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SETTING OF GOALS AND TARGETS: HAVE THEY HELPED PROGRESS OR NOT? SCN News, No.22, Gva., July 2001. The big hype The outcome-process riddle Being realistic On…
69. Human Rights Readers
These have now been put separately in this website. You can click on HR Readers in the home page to access them. Claudio
68. Thinking Loud – On Statistics*
*: This is partly plagiarized, but I regrettably lost the reference. Although it is nothing terribly new, I think it is still worth bringing to a higher level of consciousness…