Real-time evaluations (RTE) is one of the most demanding types of evaluation practice. It requires wide range of skills from evaluators but also a tightly focused professional approach in order to meet the demands of an RTE. This pilot guide is intended to help both evaluation managers and team leaders in commissioning, overseeing and conducting real time evaluations (RTEs) of humanitarian operational responses. Drawing on practices, it is intended as a flexible resource that can be adopted to a variety of contexts. The guide concentrates on RTEs undertaken in first phase of an emergency response, where RTE fieldwork takes places within a few months of the start of the response. This is because these particular RTEs can post particular problems to both evaluation managers and evaluation teams. The guide offers 25 tools and techniques designed to help both evaluation managers and teams working through their respective steps.
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Medscape HIV/AIDS has posted a new overview of prescribing information, drug-drug interactions, and resistance data.
The Regional Capacity Building Partners (RECABIP) is a network of professional organisations and individuals who have combined their skills and experience to explore cost-effective ways of strengthening the response to HIV and AIDS, Climate Change, Governance and Leadership issues, among other development concerns. It does this through tailored capacity building workshops, seminars, symposia, conferences and consultancy services. Their professionals have an average of 15 years experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating HIV and AIDS, Climate Change, Governance and Leadership programmes. For a programme of short courses offered by the network in 2009, visit their website. You also can register online on their website.
This motion design documentary puzzle looks at cities that are reversing water privatisation to regain public control. Unequal access, broken promises, environmental hazards and scandalous profit margins are prompting these municipalities to reverse privatisation. The video explores water 'remunicipalisation' in Buenos Aires and Paris, looking at the challenges and benefits of reclaiming public water. It calls on citizens worldwide to mobilise around this option.
The Reporting Skills and Professional Writing Handbook (2nd Edition) is a self-study programme based on the best of 10 years' experience working with INGOs, NGOs,GOs and IOs over hundreds of training courses. It's available on CDROM for convenient desktop study, and, for larger organisations, the Trainer Edition is supported by a complete Training Pack. For people working in international development, it can be accessed for free on sign-up.
The EQUATOR Network and the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO) has developed an online course aimed at increasing the value of research by enabling people who are planning to conduct, report, edit, publish or appraise research for health, with current research reporting standards. This introductory course is targeted at a wide range of actors interested in research quality and the use of reports for decision-making. The course provides an overview of good reporting practice at all stages of the research pathway. The ideal time to take this course is as an introductory activity before beginning and finalizing your research proposal.
The Centre for Reproductive Rights invites you to subscribe to our monthly electronic newsletter, the Reproductive Freedom News. The Reproductive Freedom News reports on the latest developments on Capitol Hill, in the U.S. and around the world that affect reproductive rights. Just reply to rfn@reprorights.org with subscribe in the subject heading to receive the Reproductive Freedom News.
How do you measure the value of a specific reproductive health (RH) programme? What indicates the value of NGO interventions in the field of RH? What is the difference between monitoring and evaluating? These and many more questions are answered in the eleventh EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia (RHI) Fact Sheet on Monitoring and Evaluation in a sexual and reproductive health (SRH) context, written by Megan Douthwaite and Ronald Horstman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), respectively.
The Reproductive Health of Young Adults training module has been updated for 2003. This module is available for either self-study or as a presentation for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, or other trained healthcare personnel. Through slides and activities, this training module is designed to increase the awareness and understanding of the reproductive health needs of young adults among policy-makers, program directors, program planners, and healthcare providers.
The Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) website is designed for reproductive health program managers and decision-makers working in developing countries and low-resource settings. RHO provides up-to-date summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical guidelines related to key reproductive health topics.