International Development - Fifth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 February 2008.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
BACKGROUND AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
The global maternal mortality burden
DFID's response
The key bottleneck: a failure of advocacy
and political will
The structure of this report
2 MORE THAN A MEDICAL PROBLEM:
MATERNAL HEALTH AS A DEVELOPMENT ISSUE
Addressing gender inequalities
Girls' and women's education
Gender-based violence
Socio-economic empowerment
Other demand-side barriers
Strengthening civil society's capacity to
hold governments to account and influence policy
Ensuring pro-poor health financing
A rights-based approach
3 SECURING POLITICAL WILL:
GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR MATERNAL HEALTH
The UN: challenges and opportunities
in its current approach
Other major global initiatives
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn
and Child Health
The Global Campaign for the Health MDGs
Seizing opportunities
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and
Malaria
The Japanese Presidency of the G8
The UK's role in stepping up advocacy
4 STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS
What works in preventing maternal deaths
What works in strengthening health systems
Increasing the availability of equipment
and supplies
Balancing the demand and supply-side of care
Working in conflict-affected and fragile
states
The need for improved health information
systems to monitor progress
5 THE CHALLENGE FOR DFID
DFID's current mix of aid instruments
and policies
Budget support and maternal health
DFID's human resource capacity
Managing expectations of DFID's work and
aid harmonisation
DFID's comparative advantage
Re-appraising priorities
6 CONCLUSION
RECOMMENDATIONS
LIST OF ACRONYMS
FORMAL MINUTES
WITNESSES
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
LIST OF UNPRINTED WRITTEN EVIDENCE
LIST OF REPORTS FROM THE COMMITTEE DURING
THE CURRENT PARLIAMENT
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 66-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 66-II)
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