This resource gathers evidence on the use of funds for the containment of the Ebola outbreak as provided by external funders. It also plans to create a narrative of cumulative experiences of how emergency funds were applied to survivors, victims, healthcare workers, institutions and other beneficiaries. It focuses on curating, tracking and demanding accountability for funds meant for Ebola virus treatment and containment across the sub region.
Useful Resources
Ebola Fund Watch: Tracking For Ebola Crisis in West Africa
BudgIT; Open Society Initiative for West Africa: June 2015
Ebola preparedness: emergency department training modules
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, February 2015
This course is directed at emergency department staff. It is aimed at training to help emergency department staff prepare to evaluate whether or not a patient might have ebola virus disease. Staff members should use this information to follow the 3 steps within the “Identify, Isolate, and Inform” strategy. Centers for Disease Control recommends that staff members screen all patients with travel histories, exposure, or clinical symptoms that might suggest the person could have ebola virus disease.
EG4Health Newsletter
EG4Health Newsletter 1, 1 April 2009
The new movement, Economic Governance for Health (EG4Health) promises to be a useful resource for health activists. Its launch coincided with protests and campaigns across the world and involving hundreds of thousands of people angry at the evidence of global financial mismanagement, corruption and rising economic inequalities. A 'Put People First' march in London, host of the G20 meeting, was supported by over 150 civil society organisations. EG4Health presents a 12-point plan for democratic economic governance, as well as a more detailed policy paper, included in this edition of the EQUINET newsletter.
Eldis Health Systems Resource Guide
A collaboration between Eldis and the Health Systems Resource Centre providing access to the latest and most relevant knowledge on health systems selected from practitioner and research networks on and off the web. Current topic areas include health, poverty and vulnerability, priority diseases, aid policy and financing mechanisms, global initiatives and PPPs, access to medicines, and health service delivery.
Eldis Manuals and Toolkits CD-Rom available
Eldis: July 2009
The latest edition of Eldis OnDisc is out now and focuses on Manuals and Toolkits. It contains over 400 full-text publications from 150 development organisations. Eldis OnDisc is freely available to subscribers with poor internet connection who struggle to access the full Eldis online services. Designed with the busy development professional and researcher in mind, publications on this CD-Rom have been categorised into key subject and skills areas for quick reference. There is also an easy-to-use Search function, helping you get right to the publication you need and each publication is accompanied by a short abstract. To receive your copy of Eldis OnDisc Manuals and Toolkits edition, please complete the registration form at the website address given here. If you are experiencing problems with this form, you can request a Word version at the email address provided.
Contact: eldisondisc@ids.ac.uk
Eldis/HRC Health Resource Guide
The Eldis/HRC Health Resource Guide has been re-launched with a new look and expanded subject coverage. There are new sections on maternal and newborn health, child health, sexual and reproductive health, tuberculosis and malaria. Key readings on each topic have been chosen and prepared in collaboration with technical experts. Each section covers statistical trends and indicators, programme approaches, access to services and information, health systems, and rights and advocacy.
Electronic Delivery Kit Guide Announcement
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) has just published the Basic Delivery Kit Guide, a step-by-step manual for developing delivery kit programs. Designed for program managers who wish to develop a basic delivery kit as part of their integrated maternal and child health programs, this resource provides comprehensive and practical information on the design, development, distribution, and promotion of single-use, disposable delivery kits.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28886
Contact: apallat@path.org
Engaging Men and Boys in Family Planning: A Strategic Planning Guide
Family Planning High Impact Practices, USA, 2018
This document aims to lead program managers, planners, and decision-makers through a strategic process to identify effective investments for engaging men in efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health. In this guide, male engagement refers to the involvement of men and boys in family planning programs across life stages, including addressing gender norms and gender equality. The guide follows four steps; defining the behavioural aim of the initiative, assessing men’s and boys’ knowledge and attitudes related to reproduction and contraception, assessing how gender norms affect male engagement in family planning, and identifying programming approaches that engage men and boys.
Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity
Gita Sen, Asha George and Piroska Östlin (Eds)
Engendering International Health presents the work of leading researchers on gender equity in international health. Growing economic inequalities reinforce social injustices, stall health gains, and deny good health to many. In particular, deep-seated gender biases in health research and policy institutions combine with a lack of well-articulated and accessible evidence to downgrade the importance of gender perspectives in health.
Equal opportunities for health action for development
Equal opportunities for health action for development is a project implemented by 29 European partners and associates from the health community with the aim to mobilise public support in Europe for Global Health and Health Equity as a strategy and policy for more equitable North-South relations and poverty reduction in developing countries.