Globalization and Health is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal soon to be launched by BioMed Central. Globalization and Health will encompass all aspects of globalization and its effects on public health.
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Globalization and Health - a new journal
An international network of public health practitioners and policy-makers have come together to launch the new journal Globalization and Health. The journal will be an Open Access (i.e. free to the end user), peer-reviewed, online journal providing a forum for debate and discussion on the topic of globalization and its impact on public health. This will be the first journal to deal exclusively with the subject, and aims to draw on a global resource base, producing content which is accessible and relevant to a truly global audience.
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Grants database for European Union
European Projects Database: 2008
The European Union (EU) established this projects database in December 2008. It ‘includes information about projects, conferences, and operating grants funded through calls for proposals in the years 2003 to 2008 under the previous EU Public Health Programme and the current EU Health Programme 2008-2013’.
Green economy and sustainable development: Bringing back the social dimension
UNRISD: 5 January 2012
This is the first of six films in the series "Bringing the Social to Rio+20". The film uses footage from recordings and interviews from the 2011 UNRISD conference, "Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social Dimension". It explores the green economy's potential as a path to inclusive, sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Guidance on impact evaluation
Leeuw F, Vaessen J and Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation: 2009
Many development interventions appear to leave no trace of sustained positive change after they have been terminated. This guidance document was developed by the Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation to support its focus on sharing methods and learning-by-doing to promote the practice of impact evaluation. It shows you how to identify the type and scope of the intervention by agreeing on the objectives of the intervention that are valued, articulating the theories linking interventions to outcomes, addressing the issue of attribution and building on existing knowledge relevant to the impact intervention. It also shows you how to manage impact evalulations by determining the feasibility of impact evaluation, gathering data and conducting front-end planning. It puts forward the idea that rigorous impact evaluation is not merely about specific methods and designs, but also about addressing the issues given above, in particular the core methodological and conceptual issues.
Guidance on using the revised Logical Framework
UK Department for International Development: February 2009
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) works with a wide range of partners from long-term arrangements with partner governments and multilateral organisations to short-term humanitarian aid projects funded through non-governmental organisations. DFID's interest is in ensuring that each is devised and delivered in the most efficient and effective way and links to identified objectives set out in a Divisional Performance Framework or Country/Regional Plan. This guide has been written for DFID project workers and DFID partners, and focuses on helping to make the best use of the Logical Framework (logframe) in designing and managing projects. The new designed format aims to address those weaknesses by encouraging the identification of objectives at the right level, more robust specification of indicators, increased coverage of baseline and target information and better quantification of results. The guide applies to any one involved in the design approval or active use of the logframe and all DFID projects of a value of one million pounds and above. Additional guidance in annexes has been provided to help the reader form a broader picture of what is involved in putting together a logframe.
Guide on incorporating Health System Strengthening in Global Fund Round 7 Proposals
Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights has released a Guide to Using Round 7 of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to Support Health Systems Strengthening. This is an extensively revised update to a health systems strengthening guide for Round 6. The Guide points out that successful proposals in earlier rounds have included a wide variety of systems investments cri tical to the fight against the three diseases, such as supporting salaries and expanded training capacity as part of an emergency human resources program, increasing access for the poor to health services, and strengthening primary level health infrastructure. The Guide also provides information on several technical partners who may be able to assist in developing health systems strengthening-related proposals.
Guide to using the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to support health systems strengthening in round 6
Physicians for Human Rights, May 2006
Physicians for Human Rights has complete a Guide to Using the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to Support Health System Strengthening in Round 6. Round 6 has great potential for advancing health system strengthening efforts in many countries, and we strongly encourage applicants to take advantage of this potential. It is especially useful for those involved in preparing Global Fund proposals, or who have the capacity to influence (or interest in influencing) these proposals.
Guidelines for health workers involved in relief efforts
Asian Tsunami Disaster
Health workers and others involved in relief efforts will find links to treatment guidelines and other medical and public health references for the prevention and treatment of diseases prevalent in the aftermath of floods and other disasters on our website www.healthnet.org.
Contact: hnn@healthnet.org
Guidelines on integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health Services into Global Fund Round 7 Proposals
Physicians for Human Rights
A group of NGOs has published guidelines on integrating the provision of sexual and reproductive health services into Global Fund Round 7 HIV/AIDS proposals. The Global Fund has thus far made few grants that deal with sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The guidelines state, however, that the Fund supports SRH-HIV/AIDS integration efforts and has indicated that SRH-based proposals would be acceptable as long as the impact on HIV and AIDS is clearly demonstrated. Seven priority areas are identified in the guidelines.