AFRO-NETS> Conference: Reaching the Poor

["Davidson R. Gwatkin" <Dgwatkin@worldbank.org>]

Conference: Reaching the Poor
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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
Room G7-005, Mail Station G7-702
The World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433, USA
Tel: +1-202-473-3223
Fax: +1-202-522-3234
mailto:dgwatkin@worldbank.org

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