A pack by Bridge, a division of IDS, aims to support trade specialists in bringing a gender perspective into their work, and to help gender specialists to understand the broad implications of trade policy and practice. Some of the main questions this pack seeks to address are, in what ways can trade advance or impede gender equality? What practical ways can policy-makers and practitioners promote gender equality in work on trade?
Useful Resources
New key issues guide on Market Development Approaches
Eldis Health Systems Reporter, 18 May 2006
This new key issues guide, from the Health Systems Resource Guide, is a tool for donors, governments and implementers to learn about MDAs for reproductive health and begin thinking of options and issues to encourage, design, implement, manage and evaluate MDAs. Content includes MDA tools, examples of MDAs and country case studies.
Human resources for health: A global crisis
IDS Health and Development Information: Young I
The IDS Health and Development Information Team has produced a range of resources which explore critical issues in human resources for health: Human resources for health dossier. This dossier is an information resource on the importance of human resources in improving health service delivery for poor people, developed in collaboration with the DFID Health Resource Centre. The dossier offers practical, up to date information with recommended readings, summarised documents and link to other resources.
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.
The eForum: Open space for Global Fund stakeholders
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria - Newsletter
In the first half of 2006, in the lead-up to the second Partnership Forum (Durban, South Africa, 3-4 July 2006), the Global Fund is opening up its website to all stakeholders, inviting them to actively participate in its strategic thinking and to help improve the way it supports its national partners in their fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This eForum is an online meeting place where everyone can share ideas, suggestions and comments on the Global Fund's performance and future direction.
Transparency International's new website on corruption and health
Transparancy International
Transparency International has put together a website of resources on corruption and health. You may well see your own work reflected in the further reading lists. The idea for the website is to draw attention to some of the research contained in the TI Global Corruption Report 2006, but also to provide links to more detailed analyses and country studies. The website also provides information about the work TI National Chapters have been doing on the topic. Transparency International welcomes information about other resources you think we should include, or organisations working on corruption in health with which they could link.
Ichweiss nicht was soll es bedeuten: Language matters in medicine
Via PAHO : PLoS Medicine Editors- 2006 (February) : 3 (2): e122
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.
SADC Protocol on Health
Tralac
This site lists and bears the various health protocols formulated by the SADC member states.
DATAD - Database of African theses & dissertations
The Association of African Universities (AAU)
A project of the Association of African Universities (AAU) since 2000, DATAD aims to develop an electronic index of all African theses and dissertations past and present - using a common format - and to disseminate this index as widely as possible via Internet and CD-ROM for the purpose of promoting and exchanging knowledge. DATAD also aims to increase universities' capacity to respond to requests for data based on the index, to encourage institutions to make entire theses and dissertations - as opposed to abstracts - available on-line, and to encourage the publication of peer-reviewed articles based on African thesis and dissertation research.
Funding Road Map: Users' Guide to Navigating Canada's Large Granting Agencies
Global health research can often fall within the scope of more broad fields. Consequently, this roadmap includes funding sources that support specifically global health research, as well as those that support global research projects that involve health elements and global health projects that involve research elements. Similarly, training opportunities may be for specifically global health research projects, or opportunities that involve health or research components.