Neil Spicer

TL;DR: Country-level evidence about the impact of global health initiatives (GHIs), which have had profound effects on recipient country health systems in middle and low income countries, is reviewed.

TL;DR: The authors explored asylum-seekers' and refugees' experiences of place, social exclusion and social networks, based on a qualitative sociological study, examining interviewees' constructions of neighbourhoods as excluding or including places and compares and contrasts parents' and children's accounts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the barriers to network building for refugee and asylum seeking children and families, and the ways in which Children's Fund strategies and practices are tackling these.

TL;DR: Primary data from seven country studies on the effects of three GHIs on coordination of HIV/AIDS programmes are reviewed to identify residual national and subnational obstacles to effective coordination and optimal use of funds by focal GHIs.

TL;DR: It is found that programme implementers across the three settings require multiple steps to catalyse scale-up, and must embrace multiple activities, and require substantial support from donors and governments in doing so.