Universal health coverage (UHC) ensures all people, everywhere, can access the quality health services they need without suffering financial hardship. World leaders have agreed: every person—no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they have—should be able to access quality health services without suffering financial hardship. To achieve this vision of universal health coverage by 2030, there is a need for collective action now to build strong, equitable health systems in every country. The UHC2030 & 12.12 Coordination Group have built a toolkit to use to promote these goals. It provides actions for policy makers, civil society and individuals, resources to share in communities around the world and key messages to share on social media.
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This toolkit is published by the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) with the support of UNESCO. It provides guidance for women’s organisations in Africa on how to organise around freedom of information. It has compiled five case studies from five African countries, namely, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia under different scenarios. As women continue to remain one of the most marginalised groups in African countries, the guide can assist NGOs in adopting new tools in ensuring gender rights and equality. The five case studies discussed in the book provide ideas and experiences faced by organisations lobbying for drafting and passing of a law where ordinary citizens have access to governmental information. From countries like Ghana and Cameroon, where no such law has even been drafted to countries like South Africa where such legislation exists. Studying these case stories from different countries can assist organisations to lobby for such a law and if it exists, how it can be used to create awareness within the community, especially for women empowerment. In general, the toolkit aims to mobilise women’s NGOs to take up freedom of information for ensuring rights and justice for women.
This toolkit was designed in response to the need for a practical tool to empower communities on what the right to health means, how to identify violations of health rights and how to respond to these violations. The toolkit can be used as a stand-alone source of information or as training tool for workshops on the right to health. Each section uses practical examples to illustrate ideas, and has a number of exercises and case studies that could be used for training purposes. At the end of each chapter is a set of workshop handouts that can be photocopied for participants. Many of these examples are actual cases that emerged from the work of the Learning Network for Health and Human Rights over the past few years. The toolkit is designed for use by civil society organisations (CSOs) such as health committees, NGOs working with health issues, educational institutions, community members or anyone with an interest in health rights.
'Freedom of Information and Women’s Rights in Africa' is a toolkit guide published by the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) with the support of UNESCO. The book provides guidance for women’s organisations in Africa on how to organise around freedom of information. It has compiled five case studies from five African countries, namely, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia under different scenarios.
What are the benefits of disseminating research online? How would you go about it if you do not have your own website? This toolkit addresses these and other questions, providing broad tips and suggestions for communicating academic research using the internet. It draws on best practice for web strategies from the information and commercial worlds. The toolkit identifies and focuses on five key elements of the process, including the Global Development Network (GDN) approach to research communication including GDNet style guides and a downloadable power point presentation about communicating research online. The author stresses that this toolkit does not cover everything needed for a comprehensive research dissemination strategy for institutes. Such a strategy will involve other channels of communication (paper-based outputs, meetings, workshops etc) and will depend on target audiences, institutional set up and finances.
This toolkit, prepared by JSI (UK)'s Zimbabwe HIV and AIDS Programme and SafAIDS, is for programme managers in Community Home Based Care. The toolkit is to encourage and guide men who take part in the care and support of family members living with HIV and AIDS. The toolkit is available free of charge in hard copy format or on a CD-ROM.
”Tools Together Now!” is a toolkit of 100 Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) tools to help facilitate community mobilisation. “Tools Together Now!” is designed to help put “All Together Now! - Community mobilisation for HIV/AIDS,” into practice. Used together, these two resources will provide a powerful way for organisations and communities to work more effectively together to address HIV/AIDS.
In this paper, the authors argue that the successful application of technologies for the management of environmental risks to human health relies on a country’s capacity to assess risks and potential health impacts, as well as develop and implement appropriate policies, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of these policies, and engage and communicate with stakeholders. The authors identify the main challenges to most African countries as lack of access to relevant tools and reduced the capacity to deliver vital evidence-based knowledge on the links between the environment and health. The translation of evidence into policies and programmes is often a complex issue, and legal and regulatory frameworks in Africa remain largely limited or ineffective. This paper describes useful tools for policy making and proposes that governments integrate health and environmental impact considerations into economic development processes, identify knowledge gaps, support local applied research to build technical capacity and strengthen cooperation among key actors to answer practical policy questions.
The purpose of this guide is to describe how to design and carry out a social mobilization program to create demand and increase participation during immunisation campaigns and routine immunisations, and thereby improve the health of communities in developing countries.
Some of the main reasons for occupational health and safety deficiencies in small-scale mining are unawareness of risks of chronic occupational diseases and inadequately implemented education and training. The key needs of the sector is to provide access to knowledge and tools that will raise awareness and disseminate affordable, best practice methods for use by small-scale mines. With this in mind, the CSIR Occupational Health and Ergonomics research group have developed the OREOHS tool, which is a comprehensive model for hazard identification and risk assessment of occupational health stressors that can be applied to mining operations of various types and sizes but in particular by small-scale enterprises. A scoring system was included in the checklists to facilitate a quantifying of the risk which would further enable a risk rating and ranking of health hazards in the workplace. Guidelines for the use of the organisational evaluation of risks associated with exposure to health stressors and guidelines for the use of each checklist are included. The OREOHS can be transposed onto a spreadsheet that will facilitate the automatic calculation of the risk rating and ranking of health hazards in a small mine.