PHA-Exchange> Conference: Reaching the Poor

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From: "Davidson R. Gwatkin" <Dgwatkin at worldbank.org>
> Conference: Reaching the Poor  with Effective Health, Nutrition, and
Population Services: What  Works, What Doesn't, and Why?
>
> 18-20 February 2004
> Washington, D.C, USA
>
> hosted by The World Bank, in collaboration with The Bill and
> Melinda Gates Foundation and the Governments of the Netherlands
> and Sweden
>
> The recent growth in knowledge about inequalities in access to
> health, nutrition, and population services has revealed unaccept-
> able disparities between better-off and disadvantaged groups.
> Such disparities are found not only in routine health services
> but, often, also in programs undertaken especially to benefit the
> poor. Lessening these disparities by increasing the availability
> of effective services for the poor has thus become an imperative
> for the many institutions and individuals committed to alleviat-
> ing the many manifestations of poverty. Ensuring that services
> reach disadvantaged groups is also central to ensuring that the
> poor participate fully in progress toward the Millennium Develop-
> ment Goals: http://www.developmentgoals.org/
>
> As an initial step toward identifying approaches that can reach
> the poor more effectively, the World Bank and other agencies have
> been seeking to take stock of the experience gained through re-
> cent field programs and projects. One component of this effort
> has been the Bank's Reaching the Poor Program, undertaken in col-
> laboration with the Gates Foundation and the Dutch and Swedish
> Governments. The Program features support for a series of studies
> covering nearly fifty health, nutrition, and population interven-
> tions in twenty countries; collaboration with other researchers
> undertaking similar studies; the conference that is the subject
> of this announcement; and dissemination of the completed studies
> and conference recommendations. The Program constitutes an effort
> to carry forward the work of the Bank's 2004 World Development
> Report: "Making Services Work for Poor People".
>
> The February conference will provide an opportunity for partici-
> pants in the Reaching the Poor Program and for other researchers
> to present their findings to an audience of policy makers and
> analysts, and for the audience to assess the findings' implica-
> tions for program and policy design.
>
> Further information is available at this web site:
> http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/healthandpopulation/Brochure/main.htm
>
>
> With thanks and best regards,
>
> Davidson R. Gwatkin
> Principal Health and Poverty Specialist
> mailto:dgwatkin at worldbank.org
>