Male involvement in family planning: A challenge for the national programme workshop

The Bangladesh family planning (FP) program has achieved success in reducing fertility during the past decades, but male involvement is lagging behind. A two-day seminar on Male Involvement in Family Planning: A Challenge for the National Programme was held in Dhaka June 25–26, 1996. The objectives were to review research findings on methods currently used, determine male involvement policy and strategy, and formulate an action plan including IEC, counseling, and programmatic interventions. Speakers emphasized the need for more male involvement in FP and the prevailing misconceptions about male contraception that should be addressed with IEC programs. Participants felt that to increase male participation in FP there should be action to marginalize sociocultural constraints, ensure that service facilities cater to male needs, arrange service-provider training, undertake innovative research, and extend coverage of male issues in IEC activities. Summary recommendations are noted in this report

Multidisciplinary and participatory workshops with stakeholders in a community of extreme poverty in the Peruvian Amazon: Development of priority concerns and potential health, nutrition and education interventions

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Communities of extreme poverty suffer disproportionately from a wide range of adverse outcomes, but are often neglected or underserved by organized services and research attention. In order to target the first Millennium Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty, thereby reducing health inequalities, participatory research in these communities is needed. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the priority problems and respective potential cost-effective interventions in Belen, a community of extreme poverty in the Peruvian Amazon, using a multidisciplinary and participatory focus.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Two multidisciplinary and participatory workshops were conducted with important stakeholders from government, non-government and community organizations, national institutes and academic institutions. In Workshop 1, participants prioritized the main health and health-related problems in the community of Belen. Problem trees were developed to show perceived causes and effects for the top six problems. In Workshop 2, following presentations describing data from recently completed field research in school and household populations of Belen, participants listed potential interventions for the priority problems, including associated barriers, enabling factors, costs and benefits.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The top ten priority problems in Belen were identified as: 1) infant malnutrition; 2) adolescent pregnancy; 3) diarrhoea; 4) anaemia; 5) parasites; 6) lack of basic sanitation; 7) low level of education; 8) sexually transmitted diseases; 9) domestic violence; and 10) delayed school entry. Causes and effects for the top six problems, proposed interventions, and factors relating to the implementation of interventions were multidisciplinary in nature and included health, nutrition, education, social and environmental issues.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The two workshops provided valuable insight into the main health and health-related problems facing the community of Belen. The participatory focus of the workshops ensured the active involvement of important stakeholders from Belen. Based on the results of the workshops, effective and essential interventions are now being planned which will contribute to reducing health inequalities in the community.</p

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Memoria del encuentro internacional, Cartagena, 25-26 de Noviembre 201

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Memoria del encuentro internacional, Cartagena, 11 y 12 de Diciembre de 201

El derecho a la consulta previa en la práctica : desafíos y oportunidades para los actores en la región andina

Memoria del encuentro internacional, Cartagena, 27-28 de octubre de 201

Comercio internacional y ambiente en América Latina y el Caribe

136 páginas. Serie Investigación y Educación en Desarrollo Sostenible (IICA) no. 96-02.Este documento reconoce al ambiente como el entorno del ser humano y el sostén de la vida a través de sus recursos y funciones. Así se visualiza al ambiente humano como dotado de un conjunto de funciones básicas que sirven para satisfacer las necesidades de la especie humana: es proveedor de bienes y servicios para el consumo humano en el sentido amplio que incluye tanto lo material como lo intangible, es proveedor de recursos (materias primas) para la producción de bienes y servicios, y es asimilador de los desechos de la producción y el consumo

Análisis de la política de precios agrícolas y su impacto en los cambios en el uso del suelo. Efecto en parámetros de sustentabilidad en la precordillera andina de la provincia de Nuble

Ilus. 12 tab. 15 ref. Cuadros; Bib. p. 53-54El trabajo presenta un análisis de los cambios impulsados por las políticas de precios agrícolas y su efecto sobre el uso del suelo en la precordillera andina de la Provincia de Nuble en la zona central sur de Chile