Labour companionship and women’s experiences of mistreatment during childbirth: results from a multi-country community-based survey by Özge Tunçalp, Thae Maung Maung, Joshua P Vogel, Mamadou Dioulde Balde, Khalidha Nasiri, Hedieh Mehrtash, Meghan A Bohren, Boubacar Alpha Diallo, Theresa Azonima Irinyenikan, Soe Soe Thwin, Adeniyi K Aderoba, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh

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The use of network meta-analysis in updating WHO living maternal and perinatal health recommendations by Joshua P Vogel, Doris Chou, Myfanwy J Williams, Ioannis D Gallos, Jenny A Ramson

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Vaginal examinations and mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth in health facilities: secondary analysis of labour observations in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria by Özge Tunçalp, Joshua P Vogel, Ernest Maya, Richard Adanu, Mamadou Dioulde Balde, Hedieh Mehrtash, Meghan A Bohren, Theresa Azonima Irinyenikan, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Adeniyi Kolade Aderoba, Chris Guure

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Social inequalities and health inequity in Morocco by Boutayeb Abdesslam

“…</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Our study was based mainly on annual reports and regular publications released by the United Nations (UN), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World Health Organisation (WHO), The Moroccan Health Ministry and related papers published in international journals.…”
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Sense-Making of Governance and Institutional Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic in the Context of Pakistan and Afghanistan by Abid Momand, Sobia Khurram, Syed Zulkifal

“…For instance, academic research studies, official government reports, credible statistical websites, emergency plans, and information provided by globally recognized organizations, such as World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The data was rigorously scrutinized through a comparative analysis of institutional and governance responses of prominent actors in both countries. …”
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A vicious cycle of superficial conceptualization: Deconstructing nature in social innovation (policy) discourse by Hande Sinem Ergun, Seray Begüm Samur-Teraman

“…We do this through an analysis of United Nations (UN) publications, particularly, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs. In addition, we consider how SI is understood, executed, promoted and how perceptions of nature affect SI. …”
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Human Security and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: External vs. Internal Perspectives by Nadia Baranovich, Ravichandran Moorthy

“…The concept of human security began to enter mainstream human rights, security and international politics debate, more prominently, after the release of the 1994 report United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report on Human Development. The report is essentially explicit manifestations of the human rights principles enshrined in the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Humans Rights (UNDHR). …”
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Comparing observed occurrence of mistreatment during childbirth with women’s self-report: a validation study in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria by Hannah H Leslie, Özge Tunçalp, Thae Maung Maung, Ernest Maya, Mamadou Dioulde Balde, Hedieh Mehrtash, Meghan A Bohren, Theresa Azonima Irinyenikan, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Adeniyi Kolade Aderoba, Blair O Berger

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Towards a scorecard for tangible and intangible assets by Ekundayo Moyosore Samuel

“…Then secondary empirical data from sources such as the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), the World Bank etc. were used to justify the research questions through the lens of four countries namely; Singapore, Nigeria, United States of America and the United Arab Emirates. …”
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Regional cooperation in addressing food security issues in Southeast Asia: Malaysian perspectives by Bakri Mat, Zarina Othman

“…In the field of international relations, the concept of human security as highlighted by the UNDP is viewed as an alternative to the mainstream state-centric paradigms designed to tackle the food insecurity issue. …”
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Controversy over customary land ownership: An overview from political philosophy perspective by Elahi, Khandakar Qudrat-I

“…This vast track of land contains many valuable economic resources, including precious minerals, natural gases and oils etc., which are vital for accelerating the process of economic growth and poverty alleviation.Accordingly, since 1960’s, supranational organisations, including the World Bank, FAO and UNDP, began investing substantial sums of monetary and technical resources on developing these lands.The general policy principle they pursued is called individualisation.Under this scheme, the communally owned lands are first demarcated and recorded, and then registered under the names of individuals using them.Unfortunately, these policies, the customary land literature suggests, have failed to produce satisfactory outcome.This paper puts up two points, which might be helpful to identify problems associated with the current policy regimes.First, the prevailing perception of customary land needs refinement, because it is conceptually confusing. …”
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External quality assessment to support the WHO ProSPeRo study for the evaluation of two dual HIV/syphilis point-of-care tests in seven countries by Weiping Cao, Yetunde F. Fakile, Mayur R. Shukla, Kevin Pettus, Kathryn Lupoli, Jaeyoung Hong, Allan Pillay, Ranmini Kularatne, Hicham Oumzil, Valeska Padovese, Nigel Sherriff, Isaac SSewanyana, Silver K. Vargas, Antonella Zorzi, Karel Blondeel, Igor Toskin, Ellen N. Kersh

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A multi-country comparative study of two treponemal tests for the serodiagnosis of syphilis amongst men who have sex with men (MSM): Chemo-luminescent assay vs Treponema pallidum p... by Lorenzo Gios, Massimo Mirandola, Maddalena Cordioli, Antonella Zorzi, Nigel Sherriff, Jaime Vera, Dominika Wlazly, Mohammed Osman Hassan-Ibrahim, Valeska Padovese, Anabel Darmanin, Rosanna W. Peeling, Magnus Unemo, Karel Blondeel, Igor Toskin

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Looking at Sierra Leone’s Ebola Epidemic Through an Agrarian Lens by Rami Zurayk

“…Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a Human Development Index ranking in 2013 of 183 out of 187 (United Nations Development Programme [UNDP], 2014).…”
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Housing-related challenges during COVID-19 pandemic among urban poor in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and gap analysis by Shubhankar Dubey, Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Girish Chandra Dash, Mili Roopchand Sahay, Pranab Mahapatra, Pranab Mahapatra, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Mariam Otmani del Barrio, Sanghamitra Pati

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We Now Have the Tools and Infrastructure to Hold Donors and NGOs in International Development to their Own Legal and Professional Standards by David H. Lempert

“…Keywords: sustainability, dependency, democracy, development, aid, capacity building, international relations, international law, donors, UNDP, World Bank, European Commission, NGOs, foundations. …”
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Women’s leadership in local government in the Caribbean by Kizzann Lee Sam

“…In recognition of this societal view of women that often led to inequality and inequity, the UNDP listed Gender Equality and empowering women as one of eight Millennium Development Goals. …”
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Multi-Level Climate Governance in Bangladesh via Climate Change Mainstreaming: Lessons for Local Climate Action in Dhaka City by Md. Nawrose Fatemi, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Michihiro Kita

“…This paper examines the integration of climate change issues into national, sectoral, and city development plans with a particular focus on Dhaka using a framework developed based on the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) climate change mainstreaming guidelines for national development processes. …”
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A city shaped by diplomacy by Dirk van Gameren, Anteneh Tesfaye Tola

“…Today, it hosts continental and global institutions such as the African Union (AU), a number of United Nation institutions (UN-ECA, UNDP, UNESCO) and others, in addition to diplomatic institutions for bilateral relations. …”
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Utility assessment of human development indicators: Case of Kolkata Urban agglomeration by Keya Chakraborty, Joy Sen

“…United Nations Development Program (UNDP) supports the fact that inequalities in development can be better addressed through assessment of qualitative indicators of Human Development Index. …”
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