Presenters' insights and experiences with progressive public services inspired and energized the 150+ people who came from across South Africa and around the world for this three-day event last April. All panel presentations and plenary talks recorded by students from the University of the Western Cape are available online.
Useful Resources
Cape Town Conference 2014: Putting Public in Public Services.
Municipal Services Project, July 2014
Cartooning for Peace
Foundation of cartooning for peace, Geneva
Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, said in 2006 “Cartoons make us laugh. Without them, our lives would be much sadder. But they are no laughing matter : They have the power to inform, and also to offend.” With Plantu, French editorial cartoonist at “Le Monde” newspaper, he gathered together twelve of the greatest international cartoonists at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on October 16, 2006, at a symposium entitled “Unlearning Intolerance”. The Cartooning for Peace initiative started with this meeting. It aims to promote a better understanding and mutual respect between people of different cultures and beliefs using editorial cartoons as a universal language. Cartooning for Peace facilitates meetings of professional cartoonists of all nationalities with a wide audience, to promote exchanges on freedom of expression and recognition of the journalistic work of cartoonists. Cartooning for Peace also provides protection and legal assistance to cartoonists working in difficult environments, as well as advice and support in the exercise of their profession.
CD-ROM on Importance of Safe Blood
Safe Blood Starts With Me, Blood Saves Lives
Today, information sharing is getting simpler and getting better. The Blood Transfusion Safety Team at WHO is pleased to make available - free of charge - a CD-ROM containing facts, figures and photos on the importance of safe blood. This material, produced for World Health Day 2000 on Blood Safety, is an excellent educational tool for
schools or health mangers alike. Ask for Mac or PC versions, indicating the quantity requested, from: The Blood Transfusion Safety Team, Blood Safety and Clinical Technology, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 19, Switzerland.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28707
Contact: bloodsafety@who.int
CD-ROM: Media/Materials for Health Communication
The Media/Materials Clearinghouse at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs is pleased to make available a new CD-ROM: "Media/Materials for Health Communication" which is a CD-ROM of the M/MC's website. The CD-ROM is a "carry-along" resource center with many databases of health communication materials, photographs, videos, etc., as well as several of the M/MC's newsletters. Also included is a checklist that walks the user through the planning and establishment of a multi-media resource center.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29222
Change a life with just one swipe!
Matroos J: Design Indaba, 2016
The Radi-Aid Awards celebrates creativity in fundraising campaigns worldwide. Specifically, it challenges the perception of the global south as helpless victims who are dependent on donations from the West. The initiative is best known for its videos that debunk and poke fun at the stereotypes perpetuated by aid campaigns. This recent video, “The Radi-Aid App: Change A Life With Just One Swipe” flips the script on the usual aid campaign. In it Africans are asked to donate to the cold citizens of Norway, challenging the notion that the material circumstances of others are easily fixed by single interventions and raising that perpetuating stereotypes can do more harm than good.
Change:
Behaviour change and health
The CHANGE Project develops and applies practical solutions to behaviour change problems relevant to health and nutrition through collaborative partnerships with local governments, private voluntary agencies, non-governmental organisations and USAID co-operating agencies. Examples of problems that CHANGE focuses on include the "deadly delay" in seeking
treatment for sick children or women with complications in childbirth.
Child to Child Resource book
TALC, May 2008
This resource book is aimed at all who are interested in making Child-to-Child an integral part of their programmes. This revised edition of the widely used Child-to-Child Activity Sheets, includes changes based on WHOs Facts for Life. New activity sheets on bird flu, sexual health and safe motherhood and diabetes are included.
Child-to-child: children as partners for health
Child-to-Child (CTC) is an innovative approach to health education practised in more than 80 countries worldwide. Relying, as it does, on the promotion of children as agents for change, the book asks how successful CTC can be in developing country contexts where children are often the least powerful members of their communities. A new book from the Institute of Education reviews the CTC approach in which children are seen as active promoters and not just passive receivers of health information. Comparing theory with practice, it examines how far CTC can work in cultures where people do not necessarily share current Western assumptions about the role of the child in society. Demonstrating the rich diversity of practice that characterises CTC, the book concludes with lessons to strengthen the approach.
Choosing a Birth Control Method:
An Interactive Program to Help You Choose the Birth Control Method That\'s Right for You (web-based questionnaire)
This site offers recommendations on which methods may be best suited for an individual answering 20 questions about lifestyle choices and medical history. Once the questions are anonymously submitted, a list of contraceptive options that best suit these needs is generated. The program also offers a general descriptions, effectiveness rates, side effects and approximate cost for each contraceptive method.
CIVICUS Enabling Environment Index, 2013
The CIVICUS `Enabling Environment Index’ (EEI) is the first rigorous attempt to measure and compare the conditions that affect the potential of citizens to participate in civil society and ranks the governance, socio-cultural and socio-economic environments for civil society in 109 countries. While recent years have seen popular uprisings from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, there have also been many crackdowns on the ability of citizens to mobilise. This tool is intended to help understand the conditions facing civil society in different parts of the world. It also helps identify countries where special attention needs to be paid to strengthening civil society by the international community. Angola, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo rank among the 10 lowest countries on the Index.