ReportsEmpowering Grassroots ActivismThe Activist Milestones - Developing the Skills to Become a Trained Citizen Activist The activist milestones are a step-by-step guide to the concrete actions community activists can take to hone and develop their skills as effective citizen activists. They provide the tools necessary to achieve success as an advocate and as a group. Best Practices for Advocacy: A Dozen Tactics, Tools & Strategies (pdf) November 2007. REF’s Advocacy to Control Tuberculosis Internationally (ACTION) Project compiled 12 innovative tools, tactics, and strategies for advocacy, which provide a model for increasing the political will to address TB and other vital global health issues. Poverty in AmericaRoadmap to End Childhood Hunger in America by 2015 (pdf) December 2009. Presented by the National Anti-Hunger Organizations (NAHO), of which RESULTS is a member. The report, which was drafted in response to President Obama's pledge to end child hunger by 2015, recommends nine steps that will collectively eliminate child hunger in the United States. Global HealthWomen And Tuberculosis: Taking a Look at a Neglected Issue (PDF) July 2010. Though tuberculosis is the third leading killer of adult women worldwide, TB has long been neglected as a women’s health issue. Women face particular barriers to diagnosis and care, and their experience of the disease can be different than men’s. In addition to TB’s unique medical and health impacts on women, a TB diagnosis can also bring with it intense stigma that disproportionately affects women and girls. In this brief, ACTION reviews the evidence regarding women and TB and provides recommendations for accelerating the response by integrating TB services with those for maternal and child health and by increasing collaboration on advocacy between the infectious disease and the maternal and child health communities. May 2010. The Lancet released a special issue on tuberculosis, which includes a series of papers and comments highlighting the need for new tools, the threat posed by drug-resistant strains, results of current control efforts, and other issues about TB worldwide. The series also includes comments about how to scale up an integrated TB and HIV response, the burden of the disease in women and children, and how migration patterns within and between countries contribute to the spread of TB. March 2010. In 2003, the U.S. launched a new response to HIV/AIDS abroad called The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). PEPFAR was the largest commitment in history by any individual nation to combat a single disease. While it signaled what would become an enormous achievement, at the outset, the plan failed to confront the number one infectious killer of people with HIV/AIDS: tuberculosis (TB). The Global Fund 2010: Innovation and Impact March 2010. This report shows that, as of December 2009, investments by the Global Fund have saved 4.9 million lives. It also documents the Global Fund’s central contribution to progress toward the health-related Millennium Development Goals. Evidence of the Impact of IMF Policies on the Capacity to Address HIV/AIDS and TB June 2009. A series of reports and policy briefs produced jointly by the Center for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa (CEGAA) and RESULTS Educational Fund, with support from the Open Society Institute. Living With HIV, Dying of TB: A Critique of the Response of Global AIDS Donors to the Co-epidemic (pdf) March 2009. This report details how key global AIDS and health institutions are failing to address TB-HIV co-infection around the world. Includes critiques of the World Bank; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; the UK Department for International Development; and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. May 2007. By examining the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) TB-HIV activities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and the United Republic of Tanzania, this report demonstrates the large gains that could be achieved toward controlling both diseases through increased funding for TB-HIV activities. Offers specific recommendations to the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and for increased strategic U.S. investment in global TB control. Enduring Neglect: The World Bank’s Inadequate Response to Africa’s TB Emergency (pdf) September 2006. Of the World Bank’s total global spending on TB, less than 5 percent goes to Africa. Yet Africa is the only region in the world where rates of TB are still increasing. This report recommends that the World Bank dramatically increase its TB funding in Africa and provides evidence for the economic benefits of controlling TB. Integrating HIV/AIDS and TB Efforts: The Challenge for the President’s AIDS Initiative (pdf) February 2004. Produced in collaboration with the Open Society Institute, this report outlines ways to better integrate TB and AIDS efforts in the 14 countries assisted through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) by expanding TB programs to reach all HIV patients with TB and by linking TB programs to HIV/AIDS voluntary counseling and testing (VCT). Education for AllWorld Bank Financing For Education: More or Less for the Poor in IDA 16 (pdf) June 2010. This report by RESULTS Educational Fund finds troubling trends in World Bank education lending for the poorest countries — especially in Africa where its proportion of education financing from the Bank was less than 15 percent in 2009, despite being home to 32 million of the world’s 72 million out-of-school children. Making matters worse, the World Bank is increasingly stepping back from education financing in a growing number of low-income countries. These are primarily countries that have joined the Fast Track Initiative, a multi-donor effort to provide additional financing for Education for All. Since 2003, $1.8 billion in grants have been distributed in 32 countries, 22 of them in Africa. Yet, in many countries that have received FTI grants the Bank has moved out; thus, creating a substitution. This is most problematic because donors to the Fast Track Initiative can’t keep up with the pace of demand, and currently have no funding left to distribute. In the meantime, developing countries are stuck with a volatile, unpredictable, and incoherent aid environment which may leave them out in the cold — short on the external funds needed to implement their education strategies. The report calls on donors to the Bank and the FTI to correct course, including by implementing a matching of funds from each, pooled together in an independent global fund under the FTI partnership. Redesigning the Basics: How to Improve the Impact of U.S. Foreign Assistance for Basic Education (pdf) September 2008. Too many countries are lagging in reaching the Millennium Development Goal of universal access to primary education by 2015 - over 70 million children are still not attending primary school. This report highlights the factors that limit the effectiveness of our aid dollars, suggests immediate actions that would improve aid effectiveness, and encourages Congress to consider major structural changes to U.S. foreign assistance for basic education. Must Try Harder: The Challenges that Remain in Achieving Education for All (pdf) October 2008. This report by RESULTS UK considers why the world is still struggling to deliver education for all and makes recommendations to the government of the UK, the World Bank, and other organizations. Basic Education: A Review of USAID’s de facto Basic Ed Strategy (pdf) December 2004. Commissioned by RESULTS Educational Fund, this report concludes that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is lacking a systematic strategy to increase primary school enrollment and school completion in developing countries, and calls for incentives for poor countries to eliminate primary school fees and scale up systems. MicrocreditHow RESULTS Activists Collaborated with Microcredit Leaders to Build the Microfinance Movement (pdf) Written by RESULTS activist Bob Sample, this paper gives an in-depth look into the microfinance movement and the role RESULTS and REF played in reaching the goal of providing 100 million of the world’s poorest people with access to microcredit to start or expand small businesses. Presented at the Microcredit Summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 2006. Our Newsletter — The RESULTS AdvocateRead about our ongoing campaigns, our latest successes, and personal stories of how RESULTS empowers ordinary people to become extraordinary voices for the end of poverty. |
