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Youths’ perceptions of community health workers’ delivery of family planning services: a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study in Nakaseke District, Uganda

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background High rates of unintended adolescent pregnancy are a significant health problem in Uganda. To improve access to family planning (FP) services, community-based Village Health Teams (VHTs) are widely employed in Uganda to deliver education and ...
Robert Kalyesubula, Jessica Mitter Pardo, Stephanie Yeh, Richard Munana, Ivan Weswa, Joseph Adducci, Faith Nassali, Mennen Tefferi, John Mundaka, Sahai Burrowes   +9 more
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Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia

Ecology and Society, 2023
Addressing ecosystem destruction and unsustainable development requires appropriate frameworks to comprehensively investigate social-ecological systems. Focusing on woody plant management in southwestern Ethiopia, we combined social-ecological resilience
Girma Shumi, Hannah Wahler, Maraja Riechers, Feyera Senbeta, David J. Abson, Jannik Schultner, Joern Fischer   +6 more
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Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity

Communications Biology, 2023
This Perspective piece outlines potential avenues to support ecosystem restoration projects into the future.
Marina Frietsch, Jacqueline Loos, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber, Joern Fischer   +4 more
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A New Generation of Sustainability Governance: Potentials for 2030 Agenda Implementation in Swiss Cantons

Politics and Governance, 2021
Governments and administrations at all levels play a central role in shaping sustainable development. Over the past 30 years, many have developed differentiated sustainability governance arrangements (SGAs) to incorporate sustainability into their ...
Basil Bornemann, Marius Christen
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Knowledge and use of family planning among men in rural Uganda

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Unmet need for family planning exceeds 33% in Uganda. One approach to decreasing unmet need is promoting male involvement in family planning.
Anne Dougherty, Alex Kayongo, Samantha Deans, John Mundaka, Faith Nassali, James Sewanyana, Eric Migadde, Ronald Kiyemba, Estherloy Katali, Sarah Jane Holcombe, Sarah H. Heil, Robert Kalyesubula   +11 more
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Anticipating and transforming futures: a literature review on transdisciplinary coastal research in the Global South

Ecosystems and People, 2023
Anticipation of futures using transdisciplinary approaches is critical to provide the basis for appropriate action to cope with current and future risks and to foster sustainability transformations.
Lilly Baumann, Maraja Riechers, Louis Celliers, Sebastian C. A. Ferse   +3 more
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Education for Sustainability: Understanding Processes of Change across Individual, Collective, and System Levels

Challenges, 2023
Researchers and practitioners increasingly emphasise the need to complement dominant external, technological approaches with an internal focus to support transformation toward sustainability.
Elin Pöllänen, Walter Osika, Eva Bojner Horwitz, Christine Wamsler   +3 more
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Pursuing underlying values: A community value-based approach to ‘Hijau Manise’ greening program in East Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Since 2019, East Sumba has faced extreme drought, exacerbating poverty and food insecurity. Greening initiatives, by fostering microclimate regulation, offer a potential solution to induce rainfall and improve soil fertility, thereby supporting ...
Nurfitria Ramadhani Astrid, Iman Nurul
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Drivers of ecosystem service specialization in a smallholder agricultural landscape of the Global South: a case study in Ethiopia

Ecology and Society, 2023
The global shift toward agricultural specialization in the 20th century led to unprecedented ecological and socioeconomic changes, both positive and negative, in rural landscapes.
Maria Brück, Joern Fischer, Elizabeth A Law, Jannik Schultner, David J. Abson   +4 more
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Application of ventilator-associated events (VAE) in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) notified in Brazil (IMPACTO MR-PAV): a protocol for a cohort study

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction Certain criteria for ventilator-associated events (VAE) definition might influence the type of an event, its detection rate and consequently the resource expenditure in intensive care unit. The Impact of Infections by Antimicrobial-Resistant
Alvaro Avezum, Adriano José Pereira, Viviane C Veiga, Haliton Alves De Oliveira Junior, Giovanna Marssola Nascimento, Daniela Laranja Gomes Rodrigues, Daniela Ghidetti Mangas Catarino, Filipe Teixeira Piastrelli, Maysa Yukari Cheno, Katia Cristina Camonda Braz, Lucas Bassolli Oliveira Alves, Alexandre Prehn Zavascki, Bruno Tomazini, Bruno Besen, Ana Paula Neves Marques de Pinho   +14 more
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