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This tool is designed to support countries as they design and implement national health sector strategies in compliance with obligations and commitments. The tool focuses on practical options and poses critical questions for policy-makers to identify gaps and opportunities in the review or reform of health sector strategies as well as other sectoral initiatives. It is intended to generate a national multi-stakeholder process and a cross-disciplinary dialogue to address human rights and gender equality in health sector activities, and may be used by various actors involved in health planning and policy making, implementation or monitoring of health sector strategies. The tool provides support, as opposed to a set of detailed guidelines, to assess health sector strategies. It is not a manual on human rights or gender equality, but it does provide users with references to other publications and materials of a more conceptual and normative nature. The tool is intended to operationalise a human rights-based approach and gender mainstreaming through their practical application in policy assessments.

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.

This publication aims at providing current, accurate, practical and user-friendly funding information to governmental and non-governmental institutions in Kenya. It includes information on European Union (EU) donor governments’ bilateral and multilateral ODA, priority sectors, relevant activities and cooperation with NGOs. Tips & Tricks seeks to increase transparency of EU and other donors’ resource allocation for sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and AIDS and population assistance in Kenya. It lists funding priorities in Kenya of the European Commission, European funders, governmental agencies, international NGO’s and private foundations, so that each applicant and funding agency can clearly see what efforts other agencies are undertaking and direct their own endeavours accordingly.

The Medicines Patent Pool, an initiative aiming at increasing access to HIV drugs through voluntary licences of patented drugs, has launched a new database of patent information on HIV medicines. The Medicines Patent Pool's patent database provides information on the patent status of selected antiretrovirals in a large number of low- and middle-income countries. It enables users to search by country/region and by medicine to obtain information on the key patents relating to each medicine. Wherever a patent has been applied for or granted in a given jurisdiction, the relevant patent number is also provided if available. The data was obtained from and cross-checked between a variety of sources, including many local patent offices that agreed to make this information available via theWorld Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The number of countries included in the database will be expanded periodically as the relevant information is collected by the Medicines Patent Pool.