School Feeding

School Feeding

Challenge It is estimated that some 66 million primary-school-age children go hungry every day, with 23 million hungry children in Africa alone. Some 80 per cent of these 66 million children are concentrated within 20 countries. Additionally, 75 million school-age...
School Feeding

Strengthening Governance for Nutrition

Challenge Guatemala suffers from high food insecurity and chronic undernutrition, and its local government and community leaders have limited awareness of food and nutrition security issues. As a result, these crucial issues are not reflected in local decision-making....
Better Hospital Performance through 5S-KAIZEN-TQM

Better Hospital Performance through 5S-KAIZEN-TQM

Challenge Hospitals in developing countries face serious problems with health-service quality owing to a lack of adequate human resources, poor management of equipment and medicines, and operational inefficiency. Global development discourse, in the meantime, has...
Better Hospital Performance through 5S-KAIZEN-TQM

ClickMedix

Challenge Millions of people in developing countries in Africa, the Arab States, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean have little access to qualified physicians. The reasons for this situation range from lack of physical access (patients having difficulty...
Better Hospital Performance through 5S-KAIZEN-TQM

Elimination of Malaria in Mesoamerica and Hispaniola

Challenge Despite the decreasing global incidence of malaria, the disease remains a public health problem worldwide, affecting mainly developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It continues to be endemic in 21 countries of the Americas, with an estimated...