Report – Health, nutrition and population. Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Yemen 1995-1999

The Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) has carried out an independent evaluation of Dutch health, nutrition and population support in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Yemen over the period 1995-1999. These countries were selected because of their long standing co-operation with the Netherlands in the health sector, involving a substantial Dutch financial contribution to a variety of programmes. The major objective of the evaluation was to determine how far health programmes have contributed, directly or indirectly, to the reduction of morbidity and mortality, especially among the poor. Therefore, a methodology was developed that emphasises access to and the quality and use of health services, assuming that good health care contributes to better health behaviour and to better health. These issues were addressed in a field study in the three countries, including both the health services and the household level.