The Africa4All project will provide the participating African countries of Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda with an information and communication technologies (ICT) solutions that will enable citizens and politicians to better appreciate the impact of legislation, making the complex political debate meaningful and interesting for all citizens. The overall objective of the Africa4All project is to help African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) governments build sustainable capacity to adapt and implement international good practice in leveraging ICT in Parliaments of ACP States. The specific objectives of the project are to educate members of Parliament, Parliamentary ICT staff and citizens to leverage technology to support collaboration and active engagement in decision making processes in society, to identify the challenges and barriers from the introduction of ICT in everyday functioning of Parliaments and to contribute to the bridging the digital divide, enhancing the use of ICT as key enablers for poverty reduction.
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These guidelines focus on the inpatient management of the major causes of childhood mortality such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, severe malnutrition, meningitis, HIV, neonatal and related conditions. The basis of these guidelines is the WHO IMCI Manual, “The Management of the Child with a Serious Illness or Severe Malnutrition.” This booklet is a result of a workshop in Machakos in February 2004 drawing together experienced paediatricians from the Ministry of Health, Kenyatta National Hospital, KEMRI and the University of Nairobi. It deals with the management of seriously ill children in the first 48 hours.
Locally based Kenyan professionals and those in the Diaspora will now have the opportunity to exchange ideas and share knowledge following the launch of a Kenyan internet-based resource centre, the Kenya Knowledge Network (KNET). KNET will be an e-forum for debating major policy issues, where qualified subject matter specialists in the key areas of the Kenyan economy and its development management challenges can meet. The aim is to enable KNET to harness knowledge for development by establishing a community of practice, consisting of policy and research centres, professionals, policy makers and practitioners, and academics, who will participate in the formulation and management of development policies and programmes in Kenya. The website is not accessible to users just yet.
There are currently a large number of indicators being collected and used in the health system. Currently there are a number of problems associated with facility-based indicators. In an attempt to demystify the indicators and to make them more accessible to managers of facilities and to those at higher levels of the system who support facility managers, this booklet has taken the top ten key indicators based on routine facility information and has unpacked them. It is hoped that this publication will make these indicators more easily understandable, will promote greater use of these indicators and will therefore ultimately play a role in improving their quality.
There are currently a large number of indicators being collected and used in the health system, however there are certain problems associated with facility-based indicators. In an attempt to demystify the indicators and to make them more accessible to managers of facilities and to those at higher levels of the system who support facility managers, this booklet has taken the top ten key indicators based on routine facility information and has unpacked them. It is hoped that this publication will make these indicators more easily understandable, will promote greater use of these indicators and will therefore ultimately play a role in improving their quality.
This open access book presents findings of and separately authored case study examples of work in a global study titled ‘Building the Next Generation of Community-Based Researchers’ (a.k.a. the Next Gen project), funded by the Social Science and Human Research Council of Canada. The Next Gen project aimed to increase access to high quality training in Community-Based Research (CBR) within higher education institutions (HEIs) and civil society organisations (CSOs). The book presents a state-of-the art in pedagogies and strategies for building CBR capacities, to strengthen the existing training for fieldwork and theoretical and curricular content on participatory research within and outside academia. It outlines a number of important trends, approaches and challenges in the field of training the next generation of researchers in CBR; through a comparative analysis of 21 institutional case studies of CBR training providers from around the world and includes the results of a global survey of training CBR in HEIs & CSOs. With over 40 contributing authors from all around the world, Knowledge and Engagement is the first book of its kind, which represents a collective effort to bring many note-worthy aspects within one umbrella (i.e., ‘Community Based Research’), analyse the current scenario and training opportunities, and provide recommendations with regard to what can be done in the best possible manner. It includes two case studies from East and Southern Africa, namely Training And Research Support Centre Zimbabwe and Umphilo waManzi South Africa.
The Alliance on Health Policy and Systems Research Alliance aims to promote the generation, dissemination and use of knowledge for enhancing health system performance. The new Evidence Base aims to broker knowledge between researcher and policy and programme analysts focusing on developing countries.
This Knowledge Translation Toolkit provides a thorough overview of what knowledge translation (KT) is and how to use it most effectively to bridge the “know–do” gap between research, policy, practice, and people. It presents the theories, tools, and strategies required to encourage and enable evidence-informed decision-making. The toolkit builds upon extensive research into the principles and skills of KT: its theory and literature, its evolution, strategies, and challenges. The book covers an array of crucial KT enablers — from context mapping to evaluative thinking — supported by practical examples, implementation guides, and references. Drawing from the experience of specialists in relevant disciplines around the world, the toolkit aims to enhance the capacity and motivation of researchers to use KT and to use it well.
The School of Public Health and Family Medicine hosted a seminar and panel discussion, "Knowledge, Equity and Health in post-Apartheid South Africa...What's Race got to do with it?" on 1 August 2013. The guest speaker was Professor Lundy Braun from Browns University, USA. As part of its on-going programme on transformation, Professor Mohamed Jeebhay, head of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine the School of Public Health and Family Medicine invited Professor Braun to draw on her own research in reflecting on the topic. The panellists included Professor Raj Ramesar (human genetics), Glenda Wildschut (Transformation Services Office), Dr Sophia Kisting-Cairncross.
You can now download selected content from the latest issue of The Lancet to read at your leisure on your mobile device - PDA, wireless PDA or smartphone.