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Two Decades of Global Impact Report

Authors: 
Future Generations
Authors: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
September, 2012

The Two Decades of Global Impact report highlights the role and achievements of Future Generations since its founding in November 1992. The report highlights key achievements in community-based learning, health, conservation, peacebuilding, and higher education for development practitioners. A summary of key achievements include:  

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Peru Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
January, 2012

For updates on activities in Peru, download this two-page country fact sheet.

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Social Determinants Approaches to Public Health: from concept to practice

Authors: 
Dr. Laura Altobelli
Publisher: 
World Health Organization (WHO)
Date: 
April, 2011

A new book by the World Health Organization, Social Determinants Approaches to Public Health: from concept to practice presents a collection of 13 case studies on the social determinants of health. Chapter 11 features a case study by Dr. Laura Altobelli, Future Generations Peru Country Director. Dr. Altobelli shares the experience and data of Peru's national community-oriented health system, known as CLAS--Local Health Administration Committees.

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Cusco, Peru: Child and Maternal Health Impact Report

Authors: 
Dr. Laura Altobelli
Authors: 
Traci Hickson and Deidre Hiner
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
October, 2010

This eight page report summarizes the strategy and impact of the Nexos Project, a four-year program in rural Cusco that linked 28 rural primary care health facilities with 258 communities and 17 municipal governments to improve maternal and child health. This project was funded from 2005-2009 by the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) Child Survival and Health Grants Program.

Evaluation data from 2005 and 2009 shows significant impacts:

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Peru 2010 Country Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
Date: 
May, 2010

This international country fact sheet will provide you with information on how Peru is "strengthening a national health system with communities."

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Impact on under-5 Child Mortality

Authors: 
Luke Taylor-Ide
Publisher: 
World Health Organization (WHO)
Date: 
March, 2010

In a community-based initiatives 2010 newsletter, World Health Organization published an article on a "case demonstration in the central highlands of Afghanistan." Through such activities as training and empowering community health workers and organizing mothers into women's action groups, child mortality decreased by almost 50%.  Future Generations Afghanistan, a local nongovernmental organization, provided technical support for this project.

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Impact on under-5 Child Mortality

Authors: 
Luke Taylor-Ide
Publisher: 
World Health Organization (WHO)
Date: 
March, 2010

In a community-based initiatives 2010 newsletter, World Health Organization published an article on a "case demonstration in the central highlands of Afghanistan." Through such activities as training and empowering community health workers and organizing mothers into women's action groups, child mortality decreased by almost 50%.  Future Generations Afghanistan, a local nongovernmental organization, provided technical support for this project.

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A Review of the Evidence: How Effective is Community-based Primary Health Care in Improving Child Health?

Authors: 
Henry Perry and Paul Freeman, Study Directors
Authors: 
Sundeep Gupta and Bahie Mary Rassekh, Study Coordinators
Publisher: 
International Health Section, American Public Health Association, Community-based Primary Health Working Group
Date: 
July, 2009
Link: 
http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/intlhealth

Excitement is rapidly growing concerning the potential for community-based primary health care (CBPHC) to accelerate progress in reducing the tragedy of millions of children dying world-wide each year from readily preventable or treatable conditions. Consequently, a review of the evidence concerning the effectiveness of community-based approaches is timely.

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Case Study - CLAS Peru

Authors: 
Laura Altobelli
Date: 
August, 2008

Altobelli, Laura C  (2008) Case Study of CLAS in Peru: Opportunity and Empowerment for Health Equity.   Prepared for Case Studies of Programmes Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Equity organized by the Priority Public Health Conditions - Knowledge Network (PPHC-KN) of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, with support from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO.  

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Searchers Who Are Improving Health in the Midst of Poverty

Authors: 
Henry Perry
Date: 
August, 2006

Why has the $2.3 trillion dollars spent by the West over the past four decades not had more of an impact in promoting health and decreasing poverty?

The economist William Easterly addresses this issue in his provocative new book, The White Man's Burden. His view is that we need to abandon the grandiose plans of the Planners and that we begin to develop new and effective ways for supporting those people he calls Searchers -- those who are working at the grassroots level and who are experimenting and learning by trial and error to solve local problems of poverty and health.

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