Monday, February 11, 2008

[EQ] Inequality in Latin America: Determinants and Consequences

Inequality in Latin America: Determinants and Consequences

 

J. Humberto Lopez and Guillermo Perry

Policy Research Working Paper 4504

Office of the Regional Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region

The World Bank – February 2008

 

PDF file [41p.] at:
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“……This paper documents recent inequality trends in the Latin American region, going beyond traditional measures of income inequality.

The paper also reviews some of the explanations that have been put forward to understand the current situation, and discusses why reducing income inequality should be an important policy priority. …”

 

 

 

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[EQ] Health Human Resources Modelling: Challenging the Past, Creating the Future

Health Human Resources Modeling: Challenging the Past, Creating the Future

 

Linda O’Brien-Pallas, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Stephen Birch, George Kephart, Raquel Meyer, Karen Eisler, Lynn Lethbridge,  Amanda Cook

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Ottawa, Ontario - Canada

October 31, 2007

 

Available online as PDF [25P.] at:  http://www.fcrss.ca/final_research/ogc/pdf/OBrien-1_3_25.pdf

 

“…..Governments and managers are challenged to ensure that adequate and efficient nursing services are delivered to meet the health needs of Canadians and to support health-system goals. Concerns about nurse supply need to be analyzed with consideration of changing population health needs, the efficient delivery of health services and the workplace concerns of providers.

 

Traditional approaches to health human resource planning have relied on applying current provider-to-population ratios to projected future populations; however, these approaches fall short as changes in population health needs and in provider productivity are not taken into account. Guided by the conceptual framework for health human resource planning developed by O’Brien-Pallas, Tomblin Murphy and Birch (2005), this program expands existing demographic-focused approaches to health human resource planning by moving beyond considerations of supply and utilization towards an examination of the broader social, political, economic, geographic and technological influences on the health system.

 

Three separate but related projects were undertaken to link population health needs to health human resource planning, to illustrate the value and challenges in using health human resource data to inform policy decisions on nursing productivity and to generate evidence based retention policies to guide nursing workforce sustainability.
Using health survey data, project 1 explored the level, distribution and patterns of health indicators by demographic and social strata.

In project 2, productivity was studied by analyzing select acute care nursing services using Management Information Systems data for nursing hours and other inputs and Discharge Abstract Database data for inpatient episodes of care and severity.

Project 3 surveyed former nurses and registered nurses across six Canadian jurisdictions….”

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

KEY IMPLICATIONS FOR DECISION MAKERS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

OVERALL CONTEXT OF THE PROGRAM

PROJECT ONE

PROJECT 2

PROJECT 3

Demographics.

Research Question 1.

Research Question 2

Research Question 3.

Research Question 4

Research Question 5

FURTHER RESEARCH

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

REFERENCES

 

 

 

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[EQ] The role of monitoring and evaluation in evidence-based policy making

New Trends in Development Evaluation

 

Available online as PDF file [121p.] at:

http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/New_trends_Dev_EValuation.pdf

 

“….As the development framework changes, the evaluation function should also change accordingly. This process of reshaping the evaluation function is just beginning and it is impossible to foresee its final shape. Nevertheless, in order to stimulate debate, it is desirable to attempt to formulate the key trends….”

 

Table of Contents

I. Acknowledgement

II. Introduction

1: Why Evaluate?

The evolution of the evaluation function

The status of the evaluation function worldwide

The Importance of Evaluation Associations and Networks

The oversight and M&E function

2: How to Evaluate?

Evaluation culture: a new approach to learning and change

Democracy and Evaluation

Democratic approach to evaluation

3. Programme Evaluation Development
4. References

 

Bridging the gap

The role of monitoring and evaluation in evidence-based policy making

 

Editor: Marco Segone

UNICEF, the World Bank and the International Development Evaluation Association

 

Available online as PDF file [220p.] at:

http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/evidence_based_policy_making.pdf

 

“……This publication offers a number of strong contributions from senior officers in institutions dealing with Evidence-based policy making.

These institutions are national and local governments, UNICEF, the World Bank and the International Development Evaluation

Association. It tries to bring together the vision and lessons learned from different stakeholders on the strategic role of monitoring and

evaluation in evidence-based policy making. These stakeholders are policy-makers, in their role of users of evidence, and researchers

and evaluators, in their role of suppliers of evidence.

 

The concept of ‘evidence-based policy making’ has been gaining currency over recent years. The use of strong evidence can make a
difference to policy making in at least five ways:

• Achieve recognition of a policy issue.

• Inform the design and choice of policy.

• Forecast the future

• Monitor policy implementation.

• Evaluate policy impact…..”

 

Contents

Editorial

Part 1: Evidence-based policy making

Evidence-based policy making and the role of monitoring and evaluation within the new aid environment,

by Marco Segone, Senior Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, UNICEF CEE/CIS and past Vice President, IOCE

The relationship between evaluation and politics, by Ove Karlsson Vestman, Director, Mälardalen Evaluation

Academy, and Vice President of the Swedish Evaluation Society; and Ross F. Conner, University of California, President of IOCE

Monitoring and evaluation, and the knowledge function, by David Parker, Deputy Director, UNICEF Innocenti Research Center

Helping countries build government monitoring and evaluation systems. World Bank contribution to evidence-based policy making, by Keith Mackay, Coordinator, Evaluation Capacity Development, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank

Ten step to a results based monitoring and evaluation systems, by Jody Zall Kusek, Chief, Global HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Group, World Bank, and Ray Rist, Advisor, Public sector management


Part 2: The strategic intent of evaluations, studies and research

Enhancing the utilization of evaluations for evidence-based policy making, by Michael Bamberger, former Senior Evaluator, World Bank

Country-Led Evaluation, by Marie-Helene Adrien, President, IDEAS and Dennis Jobin, Vice President, IDEAS

Joint Country-Led Evaluation of the policies related to child well-being within the social protection sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Azzedina Vukovic, Directorate for Economic Planning, Council of Ministers of Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Debora McWhinney, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Bosnia & Herzegovina

 

Part 3: The strategic intent of data collection and dissemination

The strategic intent of data collection and analysis. The case of Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), by Daniel Vadnais

and Attila Hancioglu


The strategic intent of data dissemination. The case of DevInfo, by Nicolas Pron, DevInfo Global Administrator, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF Headquarters

Using DevInfo as a strategic tool for decision making.


Achievements and lessons learned in Moldova, by Mohamed Azzedine Salah, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Moldova


Using DevInfo to support Governments in monitoring National Development Strategies. The case of the Republic of Serbia, by Dragana Djokovic-Papic, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, and Oliver Petrovic and Vladica Jankovic, UNICEF Serbia


Using DevInfo as a strategic tool to facilitate local communities’ empowerment. The case of Serbia, by Vladan Vasic, Mayor of Pirot, and Oliver Petrovic and Vladica Jankovic, UNICEF Serbia

Annexes

 

 

 

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