Documents et rapports

Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (ISDS) - Support to DRC human African trypanosomiasis control program - P165052 (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Strengthening Community Mobilization and Local Council Service Delivery in the Post-Ebola Context - P155339 - Sequence No : 02 (anglais)

Mainstreaming indigenous knowledge (anglais)

The indigenous knowledge (IK) program has been supporting local and national efforts to mainstream the use of traditional knowledge in the development process since 1998. A number of African countries...

Understanding interpretations of and responses to childhood fever in the chikhwawa district of Malawi (anglais)

Universal access to, and community uptake of malaria prevention and treatment strategies are critical to achieving current targets for malaria reduction. The phrase ‘kutentha thupi’, or ‘hot body’ was...

Community perceptions on malaria and care-seeking practices in endemic Indian settings: policy implications for the malaria control programme (anglais)

The focus of India’s National Malaria Programme witnessed a paradigm shift recently from health facility to community-based approaches. The current thrust is on diagnosing and treating malaria by community...

Uganda - Private Power Generation Project : social and environmental assessment (Vol. 10 of 15) : Updated cultural property management plan (anglais)

The primary objective of the Private Power Generation Project for Uganda is to increase thermal power generation in order to minimize increased load shedding and economic disruption over the a short to...

Ethiopia - Conservation and Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plants Project (anglais)

Ratings for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plants Project for Ethiopia were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, Global Environment Objectives (GEO) outcomes were satisfactory, the...

Benin - Multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS Project (anglais)

Benin - Multi-Sectoral HIV/AIDS Project (anglais)

Ratings for the Multi sectoral Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Project for Benin were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the risk to development outcome...

Traditional medicine programmes in Madagascar (anglais)

The note reviews Madagascar's inherited wealth of ethno-medical knowledge, being endowed with a flora of unique global importance on account of its biodiversity, endemicity, and ethno-medical uses. The...

Health Service Delivery and Utilization in Timor-Leste : A Qualitative Study : Timor-Leste - Health service delivery and utilization in Timor-Leste : A qualitative study (anglais)

This report was written as part of a broader Health Sector Review in Timor-Leste currently being undertaken by the World Bank. Timor-Leste struggles with a burden of disease since independence. Poor health...

Health Service Delivery and Utilization in Timor-Leste : A Qualitative Study : Timor-Leste - Health service delivery and utilization in Timor-Leste : a qualitative study (anglais)

This report was written as part of a broader Health Sector Review in Timor-Leste currently being undertaken by the World Bank. Timor-Leste struggles with a burden of disease since independence. Poor health...

Traditional modern medicine in the context of globalization (anglais)

During the workshop organized by traditional healers at the XIIIth International HIV/AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa in July 2000, the issue of the legal recognition and the legal status of this...

Traditional medicine in Uganda: historical perspective, challenges and advances (anglais)

Traditional medicine refers to the ways that existed of protecting and restoring health before the arrival of modern medicine (World Health Organization - WHO 1996). It has also been defined as the sum...

Conditions for effective collaboration between modern and traditional medicine (anglais)

In spite of the scientific advances made by modern medicine, 75-80 percent of the population turn to traditional medicine for health care. This medicine has evolved with the history of mankind, and traditional...

Cultural rights for Zimbabwe's sui generis legislation : emphasizing symbolic practice related to traditional medicinal knowledge (anglais)

Throughout two decades of development activity, reports on the "crisis" of desertification, food scarcity, and economic inefficiency have been challenged by local counter-narratives which show local people...

Timor-Leste health sector review (HSR) : meeting challenges and improving health (Vol. 3 of 3) : Appendices (anglais)

The Timor-Leste health sector review describes the accomplishments made by the government of Timore-Leste in the health sector since it separated from Indonesia, and analyzes the challenges still facing...

Traditional medicine in Tanga today : the ancient and modern worlds meet (anglais)

This report deals with primary health care providers in Africa. Today healers in Africa still play crucial roles they carry the burden of care for treating people with HIV/AIDS. Plants have been used as...

Conformed Copy - L7142 - National Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project - PRONASAR - Supplemental Letter 2 (anglais)

Conformed Copy - C3584 - Multisectoral HIV/AIDS Project - Development Credit Agreement (anglais)