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Eldis Gateway to Development Information

Eldis, hosted by the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, is a gateway to information on development issues, providing access to a wide range of high quality online resources. It provides summaries and links to online documents, directories of organisations, websites and databases, library catalogues and email discussion lists. There is a Health, Poverty and Vulnerability section on the Health Systems Resource Guide dealing with health and equity, poverty-reduction strategies and pro-poor health strategies and a more general Poverty Resource Guide. Information and links to the latest additions to the poverty database are also available here.

DFID Health Systems Resource Centre and Health Resource Centre

The Eldis Health Systems Resource Guide is sponsored by the Health Systems Resource Centre. Both Centres work closely together and share London offices. ICDDR,B is one of the five consortium partners in HRC. The Centres provide access to technical assistance, knowledge and information in support of pro-poor health policies, financing and services, for the UK Department for International Development and its partners. The web sites provide information on the activities of the Centres and links to publications produced.

Development Gateway Poverty Portal

The Development Gateway Foundation is a not-for-profit organization currently based in Washington DC. Its objectives are to reduce poverty and support sustainable development through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).The Poverty Portal web site provides links to a wide range of resources including documents, organizations, projects, news events and discussions groups. The Poverty and Health area provides a continually updated list of annotated links to new resources.

International Journal for Equity in Health

This open-acess journal is published by the International Society for Equity in Health through BioMed Central.

United Nations Development Programme and Poverty Reduction

Through the Millennium Development Goals the world is addressing the many dimensions of human development, including halving by 2015 the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. Developing countries are working to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs and priorities. UNDP advocates for these nationally-owned solutions and helps to make them effective through ensuring a greater voice for poor people, expanding access to productive assets and economic opportunities, and linking poverty programmes with countries' international economic and financial policies. The web site includes material on areas such as pro-poor policies, gender and poverty reduction, civil society, participation and aid coordination and micro-finance.

World Bank PovertyNet

The World Bank's Mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards through sustainable growth and investment in people. PovertyNet is a World Bank web site developed to provide resources for people and organizations working to understand and alleviate poverty. The web site provides a comprehensive overview with links to documents, newsletters and e-mail alerts. The Poverty and Health pages provide information on World Bank activities, country data, documents and a distance-learning course on Poverty, Health, Nutrition and Population.

Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA)

The Global Equity Gauge Alliance was created to participate in and support an active approach to monitoring health inequalities and promoting equity within and between societies. The Alliance currently includes 12 member-teams, called Equity Gauges, located in 11 countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia, including Bangladesh. The web site provides background, member profiles, documents and links.

Rockefeller Foundation Health Equity Program

The goal of the Health Equity Program is to advance global health equity by pursuing the reduction of avoidable and unfair differences in the health status of populations. The web site provides a description of the program with links to publications and related topics.

Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD)

This research group at the University of Bath is dedicated to the study of poverty, inequality and the quality of life in developing countries. The conceptual framework and methodology is being developed and tested in detailed studies with collaborating research organisations in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Peru and Thailand. The website provides links to descriptions of the research and copies of working papers and other publications.

Health and Social Change

The Health and Social Change (HSC) Programme of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex is an initiative to generate innovative thinking on health policy for a rapidly changing world. It aims to improve health in some of the poorest areas of the world, by expanding access to the benefits of health care technologies and knowledge particularly for women and children. The web site provides information on activities and links to publications.

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

The mission of the Center is to promote cross-disciplinary research on critical issues of population, health and development that will advance the well-being of the global poor. The web site describes the Centers activities and provides inks to a series of working papers and other publications, many of which deal with health equity issues.

Equinet

The Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa, is a network of research, civil society and health sector organisations. Equinet seeks to develop and widen the conceptual understanding of equity in health, by identifying critical areas of work and policy issues and by making visible existing unfair and avoidable inequalities in health. The web site provides access to a discussion group and provides links to publications and related organizations.

International Poverty and Health Network

Since 2000, Healthlink Worldwide has been managing this website and producing e-bulletins on behalf of the International Poverty and Health Network [IPHN] with funding from the World Health Organization. This constituted a two-year project that was intended to be the first phase of an ongoing programme. However, WHO decided that they were no longer able to support this work financially beyond September 2002. As no alternative source of funds has been identified, updating of the website has ceased. Arrangements are being made to maintain the website domain for a period up to ten years.