This free online course is available in English and French and is intended to expose the participant to basic concepts, issues, and standards related to gender equality in the health workforce. Participants will need to complete a free registration to take the course.
Useful Resources
Foundations of gender equality in the health workforce
Newman C and Murphy C: HRH Global Resource Centre, 2012
Introduction to monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health
Pacque-Margolis S and Ng C: HRH Global Resource Centre, 2012
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.
Latest global child mortality estimates
UNICEF: 2012
This website contains up-to-date data on global child mortality estimates. On the website, you can download the latest estimates on child mortality by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Also available for download: under-five mortality rate: country info summary, estimates and 90% uncertainty intervals; infant mortality rate: country info summary, estimates and 90% uncertainty intervals; sex-specific under-five mortality rate: estimates; neonatal mortality rate: estimates; and annual rate of reduction of under-five mortality: estimates and 90% uncertainty intervals.
Make your own short movie for free
The Home Movie Factory: September 2012
Making or acting in your own film is possible with an innovative project in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. The Home Movie Factory is a space in which anyone can go to make a movie. The project is free and is open to interested individuals or school groups, or orgabisations. The process takes about three hours from your entry into the Factory to the watching of your short movie, which will probably be between 10 and 20 minutes long. Arriving at the Factory, you start in the meeting rooms where your group’s ideas will be workshopped into a script. Each person will take a different role as the process unfolds - you may want to act, you may want to operate the camera, or you may want to be a timekeeper. You will then make use of the sets available to construct your movie and an hour or two later you will be able to watch it. The project runs for two months, starting on 1 September 2012.
A scoping review about conference objectives and evaluative practices: How do we get more out of them?
Neves J, Lavis JN and Ranson M Health Research Policy and Systems: 10:26, 2 August 2012
The aim of this scoping review is to investigate and report stakeholders' objectives for planning or participating in large multi-day conferences and how these objectives are being evaluated. The authors conducted a scoping review supplemented by a small number of key informant interviews. Eight bibliographic databases were systematically searched to identify papers describing conference objectives and/or evaluations, 44 of which were included in this study. The evaluation framework connects five key elements in planning a conference and its evaluation: conference objectives, purpose of evaluation, evaluation methods, indicators of success and theories/models. The authors found that conference objectives and evaluations were largely correlated with the type of conference (i.e. academic, political/governmental or business) but diverse overall. While much can be done to improve the quality and usefulness of conference evaluations, there are innovative assessments that are currently being utilised by some conferences and warrant further investigation. This review provides conference evaluators and organisers a simple resource to improve their own assessments by highlighting and categorising current objectives and evaluation strategies.
Film on activism for health
Kumar V: Jagruti, 2012
This film reconstructs the narrative of how a dalit women’s collective in Karnataka, a small village in Belgaum district, defied class, caste and gender barriers and rose up against the failing public health system. The film draws from the rich and first hand experiences of the village women who, with the support of various village level peoples’ organisations and activists, stake claim to their health entitlements. The film concludes by asserting the importance of people’s struggles in creating a functional, responsive, people-centric health care systems and in the larger context of holding the State accountable for its duties and responsibilities towards its citizens. This film was one of the outcomes of the efforts to address the issue of health as a human right and taking forward the issue of revitalizing the public health system by various state and national level networks and activists. Karnataka state unit of the People’s Health Movement(JAA-K) screened this film extensively to intensify their Health as a Human Right campaign. Other health activists drew ideas from it to carry out similar actions to get their local government health centres functioning.
Mozambican Drama 'Virgin Margarida'
Obenson T: Indiewire Shadow and Act, On Cinema of the African Diaspora: August 2012
Virgem Margarida (Virgin Margarida) is a new feature film, set in 1975. The revolutionary government wants to eradicate all the traces of colonialism, including commercial sex work. All the sex workers are taken to the most isolated forest in the country where they are to be reeducated and transformed into new women, under the watch of guerrilla women fighters. Amongst the 500 women is 14-year-old Margarida, who was in town to buy her bridal trousseau. Because she doesn't have her ID documents, she is taken by mistake. In the reeducation center, the revelation that Margarida is a virgin changes everything. The commercial sex workers start to worship her like a saint. Shot in Azevedo’s signature style, the film is a combination of a documentary/scripted fiction style, intended to reflect the varied real-life stories in Mozambique, his home country.
New women’s health resource for health practitioners
The Academy of Women’s Health has launched a new regular column on its website that provides timely updates on diseases and conditions that are prevalent among women to help physicians and other healthcare providers optimise patient outcomes. The column provides opinions from eminent researchers and clinicians and presents the most up-to-date management strategies.
Directory of Human Rights Funders
International Human Rights Funders Group
International Human Rights Funders Group and the Foundation Center have launched the first-ever visualization tool of the contemporary scope and landscape of global human rights grantmaking. The tool is designed to enable both grantmakers and grantseekers to search for human rights funders by several key criteria: areas of rights funding, activities supported and geographic focus. The map will be the first tool to be released as part of the centre’s Advancing Human Rights: Knowledge Tools for Funders initiative and will enable funders to search for grants by rights issue, population served, and location of grantee. To access the map, a user account must be created.
Global Fund Releases Governance Handbook
Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria
A new Governance Handbook issued by the Global Fund describes the Fund's various structures and governance processes. The handbook was conceived primarily as an operations guide for members of the Global Fund Board and their delegations, but it has also been made public. Separate sections of the handbook are devoted to topics such as the history of the Global Fund, the roles of the Board and its committees, and the current funding model and how it may evolve.