This tool is designed to support countries as they design and implement national health sector strategies in compliance with obligations and commitments. The tool focuses on practical options and poses critical questions for policy-makers to identify gaps and opportunities in the review or reform of health sector strategies as well as other sectoral initiatives. It is intended to generate a national multi-stakeholder process and a cross-disciplinary dialogue to address human rights and gender equality in health sector activities, and may be used by various actors involved in health planning and policy making, implementation or monitoring of health sector strategies. The tool provides support, as opposed to a set of detailed guidelines, to assess health sector strategies. It is not a manual on human rights or gender equality, but it does provide users with references to other publications and materials of a more conceptual and normative nature. The tool is intended to operationalise a human rights-based approach and gender mainstreaming through their practical application in policy assessments.
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This tool is intended to support countries as they design and implement national health sector strategies in compliance with legal obligations and commitments. It focuses on practical options and poses critical questions for policy-makers to identify gaps and opportunities in the review or reform of health sector strategies as well as other sectoral initiatives. It is intended for use by various actors involved in health planning and policy making, implementation or monitoring of health sector strategies, namely ministries of health and other sectors, national human rights institutions, development partners and civil society organisations. The tool provides support, as opposed to a set of detailed guidelines, to assess health sector strategies. It allows for assessment at three levels: 1) state obligations and commitments, 2) national legal, policy and institutional frameworks, and 3) health sector strategies, using the various components/building blocks of a health system.
This set of advocacy tools was developed by the AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit, a joint programme of the Centre for Human Rights and the Centre for the Study of AIDS at the University of Pretoria, and the United Nations Development Programme. According to the developers, violations of human rights exacerbate the spread of the pandemic and the impact of HIV on individuals, communities, and countries is worsened by the inadequate realisation of human rights. The tools are a series of documents created to respond to an identified need for advocacy and information material on human rights-based responses to HIV. They are based on the premise that ensuring the implementation and respect of human rights norms and standards will contribute to reduce vulnerability to HIV transmission, challenge stigma and discrimination, and ensure access to HIV-related treatment, care and support services. They are designed to assist parliamentarians, government officials, members of the judiciary, lawyers, civil society organisations, people living with HIV, and all interested institutions and individuals in the implementation and advocacy of human rights norms in the context of the HIV pandemic. They are designed to enhance efforts at national, regional, and global levels.
Claudio Schuftan's Human Rights Readers, familiar to any subscriber to health e-lists like afro-nets and PHA-Exchange, are now available in a central location. One hundred of the readers, which deal with different aspects of human rights work, are available at the website URL provided (use the table of contents bar and click on No. 69) and are intended as an eye-opener and as a mobilizer of its readers.
The Department of International Law and Human Rights of the University for Peace, with the support of the Government of the Netherlands, has been working since October 2003 on an innovative human rights project, the Human Rights Educational Project (HREP). The aim of the project is to develop and disseminate educational materials related to human rights in response to the need of individuals and organisations, particularly in developing countries, to obtain convenient access to up-to-date human rights instruments and academic materials. Professionals, practitioners, volunteers, educators and human rights defenders can all benefit from the availability of human rights instruments through the use of a manual and a CD-ROM.
HuriSearch is a very useful resource for human rights researchers and advocates, academic staff and students, journalists, diplomats and staff of international organisations. HuriSearch searches the content of over 3000 human rights websites, with a total of more than 2.6 million pages. HuriSearch makes it possible to focus searches on information published in a particular country, by a particular type of organisation, a specific organisation, or in a specific language. The HuriSearch website is available in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese. HuriSearch allows searching information in 77 languages.
This guide is an attempt to help humanitarian aid agencies look a generation into the future to begin making the necessary changes now to their thinking and organisation, to ensure that they continue to deliver the right assistance and protection to the right people in the right ways. It examines possible future scenarios and the consequences they may bring with them for humanitarian agencies. Three central themes emerge: the emergence of a ‘new humanitarianism’ that will be part of neither the humanitarian nor development systems; the continued growth of information, communication and technology tools; and strategic leadership that is central to humanitarian action in an increasingly uncertain world. Navigating these dynamics is noted to require leadership that is comfortable with ambiguity and risk, drawing on evidence and data, but not constrained by its absence. According to the guide, agencies need a leadership that encourages dissent and experimentation, in organisations that are flatter, able to implement functions of both ground delivery and global analysis.
It is now nearly impossible to be a successful medical or life scientist without basic skills to read and communicate in English. There are, however, many other potential consumers of medical and scientific research results-health-care professionals, educators, and the general public-for whom proficiency in English is a luxury that only some can afford. While basic translation services can help the reader to decide whether to invest the effort and obtain a better translation, proprietary machine translation packages can do quite a bit better.One example relevant to medical content is the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) machine translation system.
This toolkit has been developed to help civil society to increase local authorities’ capacity to deliver change. It’s response to the demand from local authorities for supporting development skills required for managing and delivering successful organisational change. The tools and information on this website include guidance, case studies and methodologies. These tools are coordinated and managed as a unit so that they achieve the intended outcomes and realise benefits. It breaks down into manageable chunks with monitoring and review points for assessing progress and performance in a long-term focus.
This two-volume set presents a course outline, in modular format, that deals step-by-step with the development of a Health Systems Research (HSR) proposal and field testing (Part 1) and with data analysis and report writing (Part 2).