Geographical Locations - Angola

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 15,136
• CIA World Factbook : Angola

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Angola
  - WHO - Tobacco control: country profiles Angola
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Angola
• WHO Regional Office for Africa
• UNDP - Angola
  This site outlines the UNDP's initiatives in Angola.
• UNFPA - Angola
  This site provides an overview of UNFPA programmes in Angola as well as providing statistics on various population indicators.
• UNICEF-Angola
  This site outlines UNICEF's programmes in Angola. These include national efforts to rebuild systems across the country and health and education campaigns such as the National Measles Campaign which vaccinated 7.1 million Angolan children in the 2003-4 period.
• World Hunger Angola
  This site details the UN World Food Programmes activities in Angola. It provides a general overview of the country as well as links to current programme documentation, emergency reports and details of the major risks to food security and projected 2005 needs.

Government

• Official Home Page of the Republic of Angola
  Provided by the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in Washington D.C. this site provides information about Angola grouped under the categories; News, Government, Business and Economics, Reference, Art & Culture and Development.
  - Government
  

Non-Government

• Angola Educational Assistance Fund
  The Angola Educational Assistance Fund has been created to help establish the highest possible standard for academic education in the country of Angola by supporting the establishment of the Catholic University of Angola, by promoting collaboration between organizations and schools in Angola and abroad, and by encouraging the involvement of the private sector in the rebuilding of the Angolan society.
• Angonet
  "Angonet is a project supported by Development Workshop, that aims to increase the capacity of non-profit, civic and development organisations working within the context of Angola's humanitarian crisis, through improved communications and information exchange"
• Oxfam - Angola : programme overview
  Oxfam is an international development agency that uses a range of approaches to achieve change and improve peoples' lives, including saving lives through emergency response; longer-term development programmes; and campaigning to achieve lasting change.

Academic Institutions

• Univesidade Católica de Angola

National Policy and Related Documents

• Strategic Plan for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality in Angola 2004-2008
  Published by the UNICEF, the UNFPA and the Republic of Angola, Ministry of Health this report sets out a plan to reduce child and maternal mortality in Angola as a contribution to interrupt the transmission of poverty from one generation to the next.

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Basic Provisions of the Urban Poor; the Experience of Development Workshop in Angola
  This report is one of ten case studies that were part of an IIED Research Programme "Urban Poverty Reduction Programmes; Lessons of Experience". It emphasises the important roles that local institutions have (or can have) in contributing to poverty reduction in urban areas.
• Review of Health Service Delivery in Angola
  This paper by Susan Fustukian forms Part 2 of the 2004 UK Department for International Development (DFID), report on Health Service Delivery in Difficult Environments.

Educational Resources

• CDC Travel Information Central Africa
• Einnews.com - Angola Breaking News : Health
• Library of Congress, Country Study: Angola
• SPARN Country Analysis Angola
  The Southern African Regional Poverty Network is a non-profit organisation that promotes debate and knowledge sharing on poverty reduction processes and experiences in Southern Africa. This page contains links to various reports and web pages of relevance to development and health in Angola.