This free online course provides a basic introduction to monitoring and evaluation concepts and how they apply to the field of human resources for health to inform evidence-based planning and decision-making. Participants will need to complete a free registration to take this course.
Useful Resources
Introduction to monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health
Pacque-Margolis S and Ng C: HRH Global Resource Centre, 2012
Introduction to Proposal Writing
Fundsforngos: 16 December 2008
Proposals have recently become more sophisticated, reflecting the increased competitiveness and larger resources existing in the NGO sector. Enormous opportunities existing in the sector have led to the trend of making proposal writing a profession. Proposal writing poses many challenges, especially for small and unskilled NGOs. In this manual, some basic and necessary information required for developing a proposal is discussed.
Ipas's vision: Protecting women's health, advancing women's reproductive rights
This 12-page booklet provides a general description of Ipas and its worldwide activities in training, research, advocacy, distribution of reproductive health technologies, and information dissemination. It includes highlights of Ipas programs in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Europe, and at the global level. The brochure also articulates Ipas's vision of, and leadership in, a global initiative to mobilize commitment and resources at all levels to improve the quality and accessibility of abortion care in the context of comprehensive reproductive health care, to ensure sustainable access to reproductive health technologies, and to create social and policy environments that support women's reproductive health and rights. Hard copies are available free of charge.
IPHC/Medact international health newsletter
The International People's Health Council and Medact have launched a clearinghouse on the politics and economics of international health. This comprises a website (the global economics and health folder at www.medact.org) and a monthly e-mail bulletin. Associated resources are also available at www.iphcglobal.org.
It’s our money. Where’s it gone?
International Budget Partnership (IBP): 26 October 2009
The International Budget Partnership (IBP) has released It's our money. Where's it gone?, a new documentary film on the work one of its partners, Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), is doing to involve communities directly in monitoring the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Mombasa, Kenya. The CDF allocates approximately one million dollars annually to each member of Parliament to spend on development projects in his or her constituency but provides for no meaningful independent oversight. This is the story of ordinary Kenyans stepping in to do something about it. MUHURI uses social audits to involve communities in monitoring and holding their government accountable for managing the public's money and meeting the needs of its people, especially the poor and most vulnerable.
Johns Hopkins POPLINE Database Now Available Online
Looking for the latest information on female genital mutilation? Need a journal article on adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS?
Trying to track down an article on population and the environment? The answers to these questions and much more are now just a few mouse clicks away on the new Internet POPLINE database. POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related issues, is now available free of charge on the Internet. All 280,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28812
Join ProNutrition-HIV - new electronic forum
ProNut-HIV, a new electronic forum, aims to share up-to-date information, knowledge and experiences on nutrition and HIV/AIDS.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29567
K4Health’s new web portal
USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health and the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project: 2009
With the goal of improving health service delivery on a global scale, this new portal offers a one-stop-shop where users can efficiently search for, organise, adapt and use up-to-date, evidence-based health information. The portal features a search tool, powered by Google Search Appliance, that enables users to quickly find resources from select sources, including the K4Health site, a range of health databases, and top quality health web sites, in addition to the web. Toolkits are available to give users access to specialised collections of resources on family planning, reproductive health, and population and environment. A toolkit application has also been supplied that allows users to design, develop, and share their own toolkits. Discussion forums have been set up to provide users with access to a community of experts around the world.
Keeping children safe: A toolkit for child protection
Eldis
This child protection toolkit aims to support agencies at international, national and local levels to put child protection standards into practice. The toolkit has a total of five components, three of which are online documents and include the following: standards for child protection, how to implement the standards training for child protection. The full document can be found at the link provided.
Kenya fills research gap on emerging diseases
Adhiambo M: SciDevNet, 5 October 2011
A laboratory that will research and monitor emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) such as yellow fever and dengue has been set up in East Africa in an attempt to tackle growing vector-borne health threats in the region. The Martin Lüscher Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases was launched with support from the German and Swiss governments at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Kenya on 16 September 2011, and is expected to add capacity to respond to disease outbreaks. According to a researcher at ICIPE, the laboratory will improve risk detection, response capacity and research capability for key insect-transmitted diseases in Kenya and the region. It will also train MSc and PhD students under the centre's capacity building programmes.