Documents et rapports

Prosperity Data360 Gender Country Snapshots : Algeria (anglais)

Factsheet provides an overview of the gender sector in Algeria according to key performance indicators.

Reducir el Embarazo Adolescente (espagnol)

A pesar de una tasa que ha ido disminuyendo lentamente (en comparación con otras regiones), América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) sigue teniendo la segunda tasa más alta de embarazo adolescente luego de África...

Preserving Rwanda's Progress Towards Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality and Ensuring Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services : A Long-standing Commitment with a New Perspective (anglais)

Improvements in the health outcomes of women, young girls, and children will be key to Rwanda attaining three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) focused on good health and wellbeing (SDG3)...

Mauritania - Health System Support Project (anglais)

The objective of the Health System Support Project for Mauritania is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, and stunting among children under five years of age and to enhance national health system...

Optimization of Geographical Accessibility to Maternal Health in Sierra Leone : Policy Brief (anglais)

Sierra Leone has made some improvements in health and nutrition outcomes in the last decade. Sierra Leone’s existing health facility network efficiency in delivering healthcare can be strongly enhanced...

Why Rural Women Use, or Avoid, Maternal Health Services : Insights from a Qualitative Study in Bolivia (anglais)

Bolivia has achieved significant improvements in its reproductive health indicators in recent years. Yet the country’s maternal mortality ratio, at 206 per 100,000 women in 2015, was the second highest...

Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2017 : Estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division (Vol. 1 of 2) : Executive Summary (anglais)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched on 25 September 2015 and came into force on 1 January 2016 for the 15-year period until 31 December 2030. Among the 17 SDGs, the direct health related...

Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2017 : Estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division (Vol. 2 of 2) (anglais)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched on 25 September 2015 and came into force on 1 January 2016 for the 15-year period until 31 December 2030. Among the 17 SDGs, the direct health related...

Gender Gaps in Bolivia : An Overview (anglais)

This review of gender issues aims to uncover the main gender gaps in the country, and to identify potential policy recommendations that could help closing them in the coming years.The note is an input...

Concept Project Information Document-Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet - Strategic Purchasing and Alignment of Resources Knowledge in Health Project (SPARK) - P167959 (anglais)

Progress in the face of insecurity : improving health outcomes in Afghanistan (Vol. 1 of 2) : policy brief (anglais)

Afghanistan has made strong gains in health outcomes, health service coverage andhealth systems performance since 2003, with a particular impact on women andchildren's health. All told, Afghanistan has...

Maternal and child health : the World Bank Group's response to sutainable development goal 3 : Target 3.1 and 3.2 (anglais)

The aim of this paper is to explore the advances made in maternal and child health (MCH) over the past 25 years, analyzing World Bank Group (WBG) operational investments in MCH, as countries shift their...

Nigeria - Nigeria - Program to Support Saving One Million Lives : P146583 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 04 (anglais)

Economic impacts of child marriage : women's health brief (anglais)

The brief summarizes results from an analysis of the impacts of child marriage on a few selected health outcomes, specifically early childbirths, maternal mortality and intimate partner violence. It does...

Maharashtra - Gender (anglais)

Women and girls in Maharashtra have experienced mixed progress. On the bright side, maternal mortality in the state is low and declining. Moreover, women in Maharashtra are better educated than in many...

Uttarakhand - Gender (anglais)

Uttarakhand’s women face many barriers to progress. The state’s child sex ratio, already lower than in most other states, is getting worse. By contrast, maternal mortality, which is among the highest in...

Assam - Gender (anglais)

There is mixed progress for women in Assam. The child sex ratio is higher than in most other states, but is declining. And, although maternal mortality rates in Assam have improved, they are still the...

Gujarat - Gender (anglais)

Women in Gujarat record mixed progress. Maternal health, already better than in most other states, is improving. And, today, more of Gujarat’s girls are in school. Nonetheless, the ratio of girls to boys...

West Bengal - Gender (anglais)

West Bengal has shown mixed progress on gender. On the one hand, maternal mortality in the state is low and declining. On the other hand, West Bengal’s child sex ratio, which is still above the national...

Punjab - Gender (anglais)

Women in Punjab record mixed progress. On the bright side, maternal mortality - already lower than the national average - is improving. And, although fewer adult women have secondary education compared...