Useful Resources

Routine health facility data helps decision-makers better understand facilities’ service readiness, utilization, and quality, enabling evidence-based policy and resource decisions. MOMENTUM’s “Strengthening Analysis and Use of Routine Facility Data for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health” webinar series is a “training of trainers” for monitoring, evaluation, and learning professionals. The series covers WHO’s Analysis and Use of Health Facility Data: Guidance for Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (MNCAH) Program Managers toolkit, which introduces a catalog of indicators for MNCAH that can be monitored through routine health facility data and offers guidance on data quality, analysis, and use. The series will feature real-world examples of how to improve analysis and use of routine health facility data. French interpretation will be available at all sessions.

This televised discussion about the debt crisis in Kenya comprises a conversation with Kwame Owino of The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA Kenya), Professor Attiya Waris, the UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights and Jason Braganza, Executive Director of the Africa Forum on Debt and Development. The discussion touches on budget deficit, whether or not to mobilize domestic revenue or borrow, the operation of the Kenyan Debt Management Office, and structure and transformation of the Kenyan economy. The speakers critique the deference of the global economy to creditors over debtors, and call for debt reorganisation.

In 2023 – 24 EQUINET is organising a series of online dialogues to share knowledge and perspectives from community/local, national and international level on the impact of climate trends, the intersect with the other drivers/ determinants of inequity, the implications for policy and action that links climate to health equity and vice versa, and the . proposals for policy, practice, research, and action. This brief reports on the issues raised in the fourth webinar in the series on climate justice and trade systems, convened by SEATINI-Southern Africa in the EQUINET steering committee. This brief summarises key points raised by speakers and participants on how climate features are impacting on trade and health systems; the actions that need to be taken to address these issues at local, national and regional level and in international/ global level processes and forums from a regional lens; and issues raised to be further discussed in the other thematic webinars. The brief is shared to draw further comment and input on the issue.The video of the full webinar is available on the EQUINET website.

Resource-poor areas in sub-Saharan Africa benefit from collaborative research partnerships between clinicians/researchers and industry, but the scientific rigour and research integrity of such collaborations need to be preserved, and research partnerships protected from threats such as conflicts of interest. Science Councils, and Research Ethics Committees (RECs) play key roles in sustaining science and health research, and are eminently positioned to identify, prevent or manage conflicts of interest. UCT, in partnership with researchers in Kenya, Cameroon, Lebanon and elsewhere in South Africa, is providing a free online course aimed at Research Ethics Committee members and Science Granting Council staff to enhance skills to identify, manage and prevent conflict of interest in the health research process. The project also includes an open access toolkit which is a resource for Research Ethics Committee members, Science Granting Council staff, researchers, managers and administrators involved in the research process.