Friday, July 18, 2008

[EQ] Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation - UNICEF - WHO Joint Monitoring Programme

Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation

 

World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation

Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP).  UNICEF, New York and WHO, Geneva, 2008

 

Available online PDF [58p.] at: http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Joint_Monitoring_Report_-_17_July_2008.pdf

 

“….This report details global progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015.

 

In recognition of the large sanitation deficit, and the declaration of 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation, the report has a special focus on sanitation. It opens with a review of the current status of sanitation and an assessment of progress towards the sanitation target included in the MDGs.

 

The report also introduces a separate assessment of global, regional and country progress using the ‘sanitation ladder’ – a new way of analysing sanitation practices that highlights trends in using improved, shared and unimproved sanitation facilities and the trend in open defecation. Trends in drinking

water coverage are presented in a similar format. They are disaggregated in a ‘drinking water ladder’, which shows the percentage of the world population that uses piped connections into a dwelling, plot or yard; other improved water sources; and unimproved sources.


New data are also presented on the time taken to collect drinking water. The data show the proportion of people that spend more than 30 minutes on a single water-hauling trip and are thus likely to compromise their daily water consumption. In addition, survey data on who usually fetches

water are presented to show how this burden is distributed among women, men, girls and boys.


Finally, the report provides a new perspective on progress. The country, regional and global estimates, starting on page 41, include a statistic on the proportion of the population that gained access to improved drinking water and sanitation since 1990. The intention is to recognize those countries that have made significant progress despite major obstacles, including low levels of coverage in 1990, rapid population growth or both….”

 

Content:


The purpose of this report

2008: International Year of Sanitation

An new way to look at sanitation practices: the sanitation ladder

Progress towards the sanitation target

Urban-rural disparities in sanitation coverage

Improved sanitation

Shared sanitation

Unimproved sanitation facilities

Open defecation

A different perspective on progress

The drinking water ladder

Progress towards the drinking water target

Urban-rural disparities in drinking water coverage

Piped water on premises

Other improved sources of drinking water

Unimproved sources of drinking water

A different perspective on progress

Expanding data collection

Joint Monitoring Programme JMP methodology

Country, regional and global estimates on water and sanitation

Millennium Development Goals: regional groupings

 

 

 

 

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[EQ] In Spanish: La econom=?iso-8859-1?Q?=EDa_invisible_invisible__y_las_desigualdades_de_g=E9nero?=

La economía invisible y las desigualdades de género

 

La importancia de medir y valorar el trabajo no remunerado

 

Organización Panamericana de la Salud. OPS/OMS 2008

Washington, D.C.:USA - ISBN 978-92-75-33224-5

 

Enlace al archivo PDF [310p.] – Free online /gratis - en: http://www.paho.org/Spanish/ad/ge/Desigualdad_genero.pdf

 

“….Las actividades domésticas de cuidado, así como aquellas que contribuyen al desarrollo físico, cognitivo y emocional de los miembros del hogar, tienen un gran impacto sobre la salud social e individual, como también sobre el potencial de desarrollo humano de los países. Se trata de actividades económicas no remuneradas, mayoritariamente a cargo de las mujeres, que al ser desarrolladas fuera del mercado son invisibles desde el punto de vista de las estadísticas económicas y de la contabilidad nacional de los países.


De hecho, la invisibilidad del trabajo no remunerado que realizan las mujeres en la prestación de servicios de salud a otros miembros del hogar y a la comunidad y en la formación del capital humano de las nuevas generaciones, es un elemento que limita tanto un adecuado análisis del verdadero impacto de las políticas públicas sectoriales como la definición de estrategias más amplias de desarrollo económico y social de los países. Todavía son pocos los países donde las políticas de ajuste fiscal o de financiamiento sectorial se refieren explícitamente al impacto que tienen para los hogares los cambios en la cantidad

y la calidad de la prestación de servicios de salud que resultan de dichas políticas.

 

Tampoco son muchos los países donde las estrategias y las políticas de desarrollo socioeconómico reconocen la importancia de las actividades no remuneradas realizadas en el hogar, principalmente por las mujeres….”  From Mirta Roses Periago Director Organización Panamericana  de la Salud OPS/OMS - José Luis Machinea, Secretario Ejecutivo Comisión Económica para America Latina y el Caribe CEPAL

 

Content:


Introducción


PARTE I. Las cuentas satélite del sector hogares y la medición y valoración del trabajo no remunerado:
resultados e implicaciones de política para la reducción de las desigualdades de género

Capítulo 1 La valoración del trabajo no remunerado: una estrategia clave para la política de igualdad de género
Elsa Gómez Gómez

Capítulo 2 Cuentas de producción doméstica de los hogares para Canadá, México y Estados Unidos: aspectos metodológicos, resultados y recomendaciones.  
Barbara M Fraumeni

Capítulo 3 Cuentas satélite de los servicios no remunerados de los hogares: una aproximación para México .

María Eugenia Gómez Luna

Capítulo 4 Cómo valorar el trabajo no remunerado  Debbie Budlender y Ann Lisbet Brathaug

Capítulo 5 Marco conceptual y lineamientos metodológicos de la cuenta satélite de los hogares para medir el trabajo no remunerado en salud.

Lourdes Ferrán

Capítulo 6 Integración del trabajo no remunerado en el análisis de los sectores de salud y bienestar social

Diez buenas razones para medir el trabajo no remunerado en el cuidado de la salud . María Angeles Durán

 

PARTE II. Propuestas conceptuales y metodológicas

Capítulo 7 Las encuestas del uso del tiempo: su diseño y aplicación Vivian Milosavljevic y Odette Tacla

Capítulo 8 Propuesta metodológica para medir y valorar el cuidado de la salud doméstico no remunerado  Mercedes Pedrero Nieto

Capítulo 9 Costos no visibles del cuidado de enfermos en el hogar: estudio de casos en Chile  Inés Reca, Madelin  Álvarez,M. Emilia Tijoux

Capítulo 10 Las mujeres, el trabajo y el cuidado de los demás en el actual milenio . Pat Armstrong

Capítulo 11 El cuidado de los niños: lo aprendido mediante encuestas sobre el uso del tiempo en algunos países de habla inglesa

Nancy Folbre, Jayoung Yoon


PARTE III.
Experiencias y resultados

Capítulo 12 El tiempo y el trabajo desde la experiencia femenina  Cristina Carrasco

Capítulo 13 Política y estrategia de provisión de la atención de salud en la región de la OPS y medición del trabajo no renumerado

Marilyn Waring

Referencias

 

 

 

 

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[EQ] Fertility Regulation Behaviors and their Costs

FERTILITY REGULATION BEHAVIORS AND THEIR COSTS


Contraception and Unintended Pregnancies in Africa and Eastern Europe & Central Asia

 

Elizabeth Lule, Susheela Singh and Sadia Afroze Chowdhury

Paper prepared with funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
Collaboration between the HNP section of the Human Development Unit of the World Bank, the Guttmacher Institute, New York and UNFPA

 

Available online as PDF file PDF [168p.] at:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/HEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/Resources/281627-1095698140167/FertilityRegulationsFinal.pdf

 

“….The report consists of three parts: global trends in fertility, contraceptive use and unintended pregnancies; studies of two regions (Africa and Eastern Europe/Central Asia) and two countries (Nigeria and Kazakhstan) on the costs of fertility regulation behaviors and provider attitudes towards contraceptive use.


Fertility levels have declined steadily over the last three decades but the pace of decline varies among regions. Countries that have achieved a high level of contraceptive use have reached a lower fertility level. A gap continues to exist between actual and desired family size, resulting in unintended pregnancies. More than one-third of the pregnancies that occur are unintended and one in five pregnancies ends in induced abortion. Almost half of all induced abortions are unsafe, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased during the last decade. Sixty-six percent of unintended pregnancies occur among women who are not using any method of contraception….”

 

Press Release:

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 10, 2008—According to the new report— 35 poor countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions (Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Djibouti, and Yemen) have the world’s highest birth rates (more than five children per mother) while also reflecting some of the world’s poorest social and economic results, with low levels of education, high death rates, and extreme poverty. Moreover, many poor women turn to abortion as a last-resort means of birth control. Some 68,000 women die each year as a result of unsafe abortion, while another 5.3 million suffer temporary or permanent disability as a result.

 

The report also says that pregnancies which are less than 15 months spaced apart more than double the risk of the mother dying. Children born 3 years after a previous birth are healthier at birth and more likely to survive. Teenage pregnancies carry a higher risk of obstetric complications such as obstructed labor, eclampsia and fistula formation, and yet teenagers are less likely to receive antenatal or obstetric care, making them twice as likely to die during childbirth as women over the age of 20.

 

 

Content

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

CHAPTER 2: GLOBAL TRENDS IN FERTILITY, CONTRACEPTIVE USE AND UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES

2.1. INTRODUCTION

2.2. DETERMINANTS OF FERTILITY

2.3. FERTILITY INTENTIONS AND DESIRED NUMBER OF CHILDREN

2.4. UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES

2.5. CONTRACEPTIVE USE AND UNMET NEED

2.6. ABORTION

2.6.1. Global Trends

2.6.2. Unsafe abortion

2.6.3. Consequences of Unsafe Abortion

2.6.4. Costs of Unsafe Abortion

2.7. CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 3: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE ON THE COST OF POSTABORTION CARE IN AFRICA

CHAPTER 4: ESTIMATING THE COST OF POST-ABORTION CARE IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY

CHAPTER 5: RECENT TRENDS IN CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA

CHAPTER 6: PROVIDER ATTITUDES TOWARDS CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS AND ABORTION AND COST OF SERVICES IN KAZAKHSTAN

CHAPTER 7: A SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICIES AND PROGRAMS

 

 

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