In support of the implementation of the Kenyan national guidelines on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, this training manual is designed for healthcare service providers working in comprehensive care centres. It aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary for managing the specific nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. The provision of methodology, suggested content, materials and further reading allow trainers to formulate a programme specific to their context. The manual includes a variety of tools such as a sample training programme, sample questionnaires, tips on evaluation, guidelines and a step-by-step process for the preparation of sessions, check lists, props and background information on the national guidelines.
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This Training Companion is a result of interregional collaboration, based on concepts and illustrative examples from African cities that recently initiated participatory budgeting. The Companion provides visibility and resonance to the efforts that have been made by many anonymous women and men of Latin America to improve democracy and construct participatory governance in their own cities. The interregional collaboration in the preparation of this Companion has also generated a process of mutual learning across language groups and regions in Africa as well as in Latin America. The inputs of the various institutions, including sensitisation events and pilot workshops, underscore the multiple ownership of the publication.
This website provides information on the World Social Forum 2009 in the Amazon. Organisations, networks and movements can obtain and exchange information and help building yet one more edition of the WSF. The website will be updated periodically with information on a set of themes linked to the participation on the 2009 event.
Betteraid.org is a campaign website, published by the Civil Society International Steering Group (ISG) towards the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008, reviewing the Paris Declaration. It aims to provide information and updates on aid effectiveness issues, especially related to the CSO parallel process towards the Third High Level Forum. The International Steering Group (ISG), initiated during the World Social Forum in Nairobi in January 2007, is actively voicing CSOs concerns and is preparing the CSO parallel Forum in Accra under the chairmanship of IBON Foundation and ISG active partners.
Qualitative synthesis has become more commonplace in recent years. Meta ethnography is one of several methods for synthesising qualitative research and is being used increasingly within health care research. However, many aspects of the steps in the process remain ill-defined. Meta-ethnography is a useful method for synthesising qualitative research and for developing models that interpret findings across multiple studies. Despite its growing use in health research, further research is needed to address the wide range of methodological and epistemological questions raised by the approach.
The Reporting Skills and Professional Writing Handbook (2nd Edition) is a self-study programme based on the best of 10 years' experience working with INGOs, NGOs,GOs and IOs over hundreds of training courses. It's available on CDROM for convenient desktop study, and, for larger organisations, the Trainer Edition is supported by a complete Training Pack. For people working in international development, it can be accessed for free on sign-up.
The purpose of this book is to provide guidance in understanding how the WTO institutions and agreements that impact the agricultural sector operate. Its aim is to provide those in charge of civil society organisations in sub-Saharan Africa with tools and references to better understand the stakes behind, and means for, their participation in worl trade. Organised around descriptive and factual texts, this work contains many definitions and is illustrated by concrete experiences that facilitate reading.
Progress in quantifying and understanding health equities would not have been possible without appropriate analytic techniques. These techniques are the subject of this book, which includes chapters dealing with data issues and the measurement of the key variables in health equity analysis, quantitative techniques for interpreting and presenting health equity data, and the application of these techniques in the analysis of equity in health care utilisation and health care spending. The aim of the book is to provide researchers and analysts with a step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspects of health equity, with worked examples and computer code, mostly for the computer program Stata. It is hoped that these step-by-step guides, and the easy-to-implement computer routines contained in them, will help stimulate yet more research in the field, especially policy-oriented health equity research that enables researchers to help policymakers develop and evaluate programs to reduce health inequities.
This Guide documents pioneering methodologies used by civil society organizations around the developing world to hold their governments to account for the use of public resources. Specific methodologies examined by the Guide include social audits, citizen report cards, public expenditure tracking surveys, procurement monitoring tools, and participatory auditing tools. These methodologies are considered in detailed case studies presenting the work of 17 organizations from 12 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The Guide will enable readers to gain familiarity with the typical processes followed by national-level governments during the execution of budgets, management of procurements, measurement of impact achieved by expenditures, and oversight of budget expenditures through audits and legislative supervision. For each of these processes, the Guide provides practical tools and techniques that readers can use to monitor the results achieved by government expenditures.
Equal opportunities for health action for development is a project implemented by 29 European partners and associates from the health community with the aim to mobilise public support in Europe for Global Health and Health Equity as a strategy and policy for more equitable North-South relations and poverty reduction in developing countries.