DFID-funded project helps Ghanaian women take control of health

This DFID-funded programme at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine worked with over 20 local health care workers in three districts in Ghana to find ways to deal with the problems women have in getting good health care for young children.

10/05/2005

Midwives help deliver malaria prevention in Ghana

Pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in southeastern Ghana are protecting themselves and their newborns against malaria, thanks to a pilot project funded by DFID which relies on the skills and influencing power of local midwives.

10/05/2005

Making microcredit mobile: DFID and Vodafone in Kenya and Tanzania

Businesses in tiny villages throughout Kenya and Tanzania may soon be able to settle their bills by text message through a Vodafone project backed with almost £1m from DFID''s Financial Deepening Challenge Fund (FDCF).

10/05/2005

Multi-donor budget support: lessons from Ghana

Many believe that the multi donor budget support programme in Ghana since 2003 is helping to move the country nearer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

10/05/2005

Partnership brings water to Ghana's cocoa workers

A joint initiative between a multinational, a farmer co-operative and an international charity supported by DFID has brought fresh water to tens of thousands of cocoa-farmers and their families in rural Ghana over the last couple of years.

10/05/2005

Switched on to new ways of exploring gender and sexual health

DIVO aimed to use digital video technology to stimulate and support dialogue exploring gender and sexual health issues faced by young women in the UK & Ghana.

10/05/2005

How partnership with VSO is helping disabled children back into school

A DFID-funded project has helped around 1,900 disabled children in Kenya to attend primary school – and influenced government policy on disabled children and people.

10/05/2005

Playing to win: managing water in Tanzania

A table-top game and interactive computer model are helping farmers and water planners to share and manage scarce water supplies in the Usangu wetland of Tanzania, in an innovative project co-funded by DFID.

04/04/2005

How world markets are opening up to Vietnamese village potters

An initiative part-funded by DFID has helped potters from a small village outside Hanoi in Vietnam to build an international brand for their product - and sell their ceramics all over the world.

01/04/2005

How reform and aid is strengthening health services in Uganda

A health-care revolution in Uganda, supported by DFID, has seen demand for health services soar - and the country's poorest people are the main beneficiaries.

30/03/2005