For more than a decade, CEP research associate Peter Boone and his colleagues at Effective Intervention have been running health and education programmes in some of the poorest parts of the world. As he recounts here, there have been successes and failures – but the one clear lesson is that while financing is an issue in foreign aid projects, it is by no means the most important one for saving lives or educating young children.
Published in CentrePiece Autumn 2018
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Peter Boone is the executive chair of Effective Intervention (http://www.effint.org).
Further Reading
Peter Boone, Ila Fazzio, Kameshwari Jandhyala, Chitra Jayanty, Gangadhar Jayanty, Simon Johnson, Vimala Ramachandran, Filipa Silva and Zhaoguo Zhan (2013) ‘The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children’s Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes) Study in Guinea-Bissau’,
CEP Discussion Paper No. 1201 (http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1201.pdf).
Peter Boone, Alex Eble, Diana Elbourne, Chris Frost, Chitra Jayanty, Rashmi Lakshminarayana, Vera Mann, Rohini Mukherjee, Gilda Piaggio and Padmanabh
Reddy (2017) ‘Community Health Promotion and Medical Provision for Neonatal Health– CHAMPION Cluster Randomised Trial in Nagarkurnool District, Telangana (formerly Andhra Pradesh), India’, PLoS Medicine 14(7):
e1002324
(http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002324)
Rashmi Lakshminarayana, Alex Eble, Preetha Bhakta, Chris Frost, Peter Boone, Diana Elbourne and Vera Mann (2013) ‘The Support to Rural India’s Public Education System (STRIPES) Trial: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of Supplementary Teaching, Learning Material and Material Support’,
PLoS ONE 8(7): e65775
(http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065775).
Vera Mann, Ila Fazzio, Rebecca King, Polly Walker, Albino dos Santos, Jose Carlos de Sa, Chitra Jayanty, Chris Frost, Diana Elbourne and Peter Boone (2009) ‘The EPICS Trial: Enabling Parents to Increase Child Survival through the Introduction of Community-based Health Interventions in Rural Guinea-Bissau’,
BMC Public Health 9: 279
(http://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-279).
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