Activities
2001 in more detail - Developing
Tools, Guides and Training
Training
HDE, in partnership with
the World Bank, WHO and UNICEF, is organizing two sub-regional workshops, one
Francophone and one Anglophone, to strengthen national capacity in the analysis of
health and poverty issues and in the design of pro-poor health
strategies.
Tools
As women comprise the
largest share of the poor everywhere, a gender perspective is
critical to the success of health and poverty approaches.
Understanding is growing that poverty affects men and women in
different ways, and hence gender-sensitive policies and
interventions are needed. Yet gender issues are rarely prominent
in national anti-poverty strategies.
More information is needed
about how poverty is created for men and women respectively, and
how this relates to their health. What coping strategies do men
and women use in situations of acute and chronic poverty? How,
and by whom, is health produced and maintained at household
level? Does existing health policy reach poor men and women?
What changes are needed? How do changes in men’s roles affect
their own and women’s health? Does the aggregate finding that
increased wealth leads to better health hold true from a gender
perspective? Answers to these questions are essential to
meaningful work on health and poverty at international and
national level.
During 2001, HDE is:
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Preparing, in
consultation with a wide range of government, academic, and
civil society partners, an integrated planning framework
addressing linkages between gender, health, and poverty
issues. The aim is to create a tool to facilitate effective
planning and implementation of activities at country level.
This framework will address the questions above, and many
others, showing how the use of gender perspectives
contributes to more effective strategies for protecting and
promoting the health of the poor. Specifically, it will lay
out the processes, linkages, and mechanisms needed to create
and implement programmes to address gender, health, and
poverty issues.
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Preparing, in
collaboration with the Society for International Development
(SID), a Round Table symposium on issues of gender, poverty,
and globalization, with a strong focus on the role of civil
society in shaping and containing the forces that create and
maintain both wealth and poverty. The Round Table will build
on existing experience of gender and globalization issues,
and will underscore the positive and negative impacts on
health of major global trends for both men and women.
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