2018 has been a tumultuous year, but RESULTS grassroots campaigners have been busy using their voices to change the world for the better. You have campaigned with us on a number of important international development issues, from tuberculosis and UK aid to immunisation and nutrition. Change is not always easily won, but all your actions around the country are helping to create a world where everyone has access to health, education and economic opportunity. Thank you for all you have done...
2017 was another challenging year, with ongoing political and public criticisms of UK aid spending, which we continued to address alongside many other organisations in our sector. But we carried on with our important advocacy on issues of vital concern to the world's poorest people - securing a pledge of £100 million to fight polio, supporting the Global Partnership for Education, and securing tangible increases in high-level political concern over drug-resistant tuberculosis. Read our...
In the coming years the global health financing landscape will change dramatically and this could have significant impact on health systems and access to quality health care. In this call to action and policy briefing, ACTION, RESULTS UK and the UN Foundation jointly highlight the main challenges with health transitions, what is driving them, and why action matters now. It also sets out what civil society can do now to help ensure transitions do not negatively impact health outcomes.
Only 7% children in the world’s poorest countries receive all 11 WHO recommended vaccines. Despite impressive progress on global immunisation coverage rates, too many children are still being left behind. Polio transition poses a unique opportunity to reinforce immunisation systems and turn a situation with great risk into one that leaves a positive legacy on child and global health. It is an opportunity that cannot be missed. The WHO Strategic Action Plan (the Plan) must set out how the WHO...
Around eight out of ten of the world's malnourished children live in middle-income countries (MICs). This report assesses the silent everyday emergency of malnutrition in 89 relatively non-fragile MICs, which is damaging the survival and potential of populations in these countries, and therefore limiting what they can achieve. Based on available data, the report also reviews national policies for nutrition, and inequities in nutritional outcomes in these countries. It then identifies key...
During 2017, RESULTS grassroots campaigners have been busy taking local action to fight global poverty. You have campaigned with us on a range of issues, including UK aid, polio, TB, education and nutrition. Your hard work and commitment has improved the health, education and economic opportunities for marginalised people around the world, assisting us in achieving the Global Goals and ensuring that we leave no one behind.
You can read more about what our campaigners around the...
As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) winds down, the 16 countries that receive 95% of GPEI’s support will face significant challenges from decreased funding over the next three years. Addressing and overcoming these challenges must be an urgent political priority which, if left unresolved, could have a devastating effect on immunisation and health systems.
Using case studies from Nigeria and Pakistan, A Balancing Act explores country-specific and global...
In 2015, the UK government committed to improving the nutrition for 50 million individuals by 2020. Even though the 2017 general election led to a change in leadership, DFID are committed to reaching this target. So far, DFID have only been reporting the 'reach' of their nutrition-relevant programmes, as opposed to nutrition improvement resulting from these. However, in 2016 they developed a nuanced methodology based on 'intensity of nutrition reach' (high, medium, or low) as a proxy measure...
2016 was a challenging year, with political upheavals posing challenges for the issues and initiatives RESULTS care about that. But that didn’t stop us. Throughout the year we achieved some incredible things- from securing a historic pledge of over £1.1 billion from the UK Government to the Global Fund, to launching a new campaign on climate risk insurance. Read our 2016 Annual Report to...
The MDG period saw dramatic progress for many of the world’s poorest, and UK aid played a vital role in this accomplishment. Simultaneously, economic growth more than halved the number of Low-Income countries. However, more people living in poverty now reside in middle income countries than any other income classification, yet donors often rely on economic figures to determine eligibility for financial support. As economies grow, donor support may change, we call this change ‘transition’....
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