5,120 research outputs found
Making a Smart Investment: Evidence that Worker Health Programs Benefit Everyone
No full textOn 17 July 2024, the Population Council and UN Foundation\u27s Universal Access Project co-hosted a timely discussion on addressing women’s health in global supply chains and latest efforts to drive corporate action on worker health and wellbeing.
The Population Council presented a case study of public-private partnership in providing family planning services to garment workers in Egypt. And it put the study in context with its past initiatives in Asia—in Bangladesh and Cambodia—on workplace health programs and policies.
The UN Foundation’s Universal Access Project led a panel discussion with business, development, and NGO experts on the state of workplace health and wellbeing initiatives, on connections to climate resilience and effective stakeholder engagement, and on next steps to engage corporate champions.
Speakers included:
- Peter Mollema, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Egypt- Dilly Severin, UN Foundation/Universal Access Project- Thoai Ngo, Population Council- David Wofford, UN Foundation/Universal Access Project- Ashish Bajracharya, Population Council- Nahla Abdel Tawab, Population Council- Sarah Craven, UNFPA- Emily Janoch, Thought Leadership at CARE/USA- Komala Ramachandra, Gap, Inc
Huddersfield Open Access Publishing
No full textThis paper presents the findings of the Huddersfield Open Access Publishing Project, a JISC funded project to develop a low cost, sustainable Open Access (OA) journal publishing platform using EPrints Institutional Repository software
Escaping the Vicious Cycle of Poverty: Towards Universal Access to Energy. CEPS Working Document No. 363, 9 March 2012
No full textDespite the continuous efforts of developing countries and the international community to reduce energy poverty, some 2.7 billion people around the world still rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating and 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity. Over 80% of the energy poor live in rural areas and roughly two thirds in sub-Saharan Africa and India. While fossil fuels will inevitably play a major role in expanding on-grid energy supply, this study shows that renewable energy sources – and especially small decentralised solutions – have huge potential for providing reliable, sustainable and affordable energy services for the poor, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Many challenges remain, including financing, capacity-building, technology transfer and governance reforms. A careful assessment of the environmental impacts of renewable energy technologies, particularly those on water, is an important prerequisite for donor finance. With the right design, energy access projects can also bring a host of developmental co-benefits. It should be possible for international initiatives including the UN’s Year of Sustainable Energy for All and the EU’s partnership with Africa to build on the rich experience and lessons learned from pilot projects over the last two decades in order to optimise donor effectiveness in this area
Making a Smart Investment: Evidence that Worker Health Programs Benefit Everyone—Slide deck
No full textSlide deck for event held on 17 July 2024
Knowledge Summary 20: Access to Family Planning
No full textEnsuring universal access to reproductive health and rights, including family planning, is key
to achieving global goals to improve women’s and children’s health. Without additional
attention and resources, unmet need is projected to grow by 40% over the next 15 years.
Universal access to family planning requires implementation of a range of evidence-based
practices to increase demand for and access to services. Supply chain management is one of
the essential components. Three notable ways to strengthen reproductive health supply
chains are: innovative use of technology, improving coordination and leveraging private sector
experience in supply chain management. There are now significant opportunities related to
initiatives such as Every Woman, Every Child for stakeholders to engage in building demand,
strengthening supply chains, and ensuring sustained availability to family planning commodities,
information and services
Reforming the posts : abandoning the monopoly-supported postal universal service obligation in developing countries
No full textThe monopoly-supported universal service obligation (USO) is usually defended on the grounds that the monopoly allows for cross-subsidy in letter services that in turn allows universal access to a service of great importance to all. The author argues that letter delivery (as opposed to other services that may be provided by post offices) is not in universal demand in poor countries, that the size of the market in developing countries is such that USOs could not be met under the monopoly model, and that the monopoly carries heavy costs for sector development and consumer welfare. He proposes in the place of the postal USO a competitive approach involving universal access to a range of services that poor people have a need to access. Regarding reform of the incumbent, the author takes a preliminary first cut at examining the statistical relationship between postal performance (as measured by letters per capita allowing for income per capita), trust in the postal service, and postal efficiency, and finds a significant link between the three. The results suggest that reforms that improve postal efficiency and trust in the postal network will improve the performance of the postal network. The author suggests that there may be better uses of cross-subsidy from within the sector and government subsidy from without than supporting the inefficient delivery of a service rarely used by poor people.Economic Theory&Research,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Governance Indicators,Environmental Economics&Policies,Postal Services
RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving
No full textThis is the final study in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving) which investigated the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues relating to academic author self-archiving of research papers. It reports the results of a survey of 542 academic authors showing the level of protection required for their open-access research papers. It then describes the selection of an appropriate means of expressing those rights through metadata and the resulting choice of Creative Commons licences. Finally it outlines proposals for communicating rights metadata via the Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
RoMEO Studies 2: How academics wish to protect their open-access research paper
No full textThis paper is the second in a series of studies (see Gadd, E., C. Oppenheim, and S. Probets. RoMEO Studies 1: The impact of copyright ownership on author-self-archiving. Journal of Documentation. 59(3) 243-277) emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers the protection for research papers afforded by UK copyright law, and by e-journal licences. It compares this with the protection required by academic authors for open-access research papers as discovered by the RoMEO academic author survey. The survey used the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) as a framework for collecting views from 542 academics as to the permissions, restrictions, and conditions they wanted to assert over their works. Responses from self-archivers and non-archivers are compared. Concludes that most academic authors are primarily interested in preserving their moral rights, and that the protection offered research papers by copyright law is way in excess of that required by most academics. It also raises concerns about the level of protection enforced by e-journal licence agreement
Improving access to climate financing for the Pacific Islands
No full textExecutive summary
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commits developed countries to provide assistance to ‘developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting the costs of adaptation.’
Although recent commitments of ‘fast-start’ climate funding from partners like Australia, Japan and the European Union are welcome, Pacific Island countries face wider obstacles in accessing appropriate and timely levels of funding for adaptation and mitigation to manage the adverse effects that environmental challenges have on core areas for economic, social and human development.
The experience of Solomon Islands, the first Pacific country to obtain funding from the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund for a project on food security and agricultural production, offers some important lessons for the region.
Access to climate financing could be improved through seeking special access for small island states in financial mechanisms, establishing programs and structures that improve donor coordination and build the capacity of national institutions, developing national climate trust funds and a Pacific Regional Climate Change fund and, most importantly, implementing more targeted action on the ground to assist the most vulnerable communities with concrete adaptation programs
Conference Institutional archives for research: experiences and projects in Open Access Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome, 30 November - 1 December 2006
No full textThe Congress was organised into four sessions: 1) Open Access (OA) and authors: support from the international community; 2) OA in Italy: knowledge and tools to write and search; 3) institutional policies for OA; 4) opportunities and services to develop OA. It was aimed at achieving the following objectives: a) make authors of biomedical publications aware of the benefits of depositing research material in digital open archives and publishing in OA peer-reviewed journals; b) outline the impact of the OA publishing model on the assessment of research output; c) enhance the adoption of policies encouraging the OA paradigm; d) promote cooperation between research institutions in Italy and abroad to share resources and experiences on institutional repositories. A useful introductory bibliography on the OA publishing model in the biomedical field is included in the Appendix
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