The ninth edition of The North-South Institute’s flagship publication explores the right to health, why it is important to development and how it might best be achieved. The volume investigates public health care’s role in advancing development and also examines the role Canada is playing and might well play in achieving the global right to health. The CDR 2007 also includes up-to-date statistics and analysis related to social and economic indicators of developing countries, along with statistics regarding the Canadian government’s involvement with such countries.
Useful Resources
The Global Right to Health
The North-South Institute: Canadian Development Report, 2007
Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium website
DFID, November 2006
The main purpose of the Future Health Systems Research ProgrammeConsortium's (RPC) is to generate knowledge that shapes health systems to benefit the world's poor. Through research and partnership we want to inform and influence the health systems of the future in Nigeria, India, Uganda, Bangladesh, China and Afghanistan.
Human rights search engine
HuriSearch
HuriSearch is a very useful resource for human rights researchers and advocates, academic staff and students, journalists, diplomats and staff of international organisations. HuriSearch searches the content of over 3000 human rights websites, with a total of more than 2.6 million pages. HuriSearch makes it possible to focus searches on information published in a particular country, by a particular type of organisation, a specific organisation, or in a specific language. The HuriSearch website is available in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese. HuriSearch allows searching information in 77 languages.
Tools for newborn health
Boggs MK, Bradley III PM, Storti CZ: Save the Children, UNICEF, 2006
The purpose of this guide is to describe how to design and carry out a social mobilization program to create demand and increase participation during immunisation campaigns and routine immunisations, and thereby improve the health of communities in developing countries.
Special series of reviews: 'Improving the Use of Research Evidence in Guideline Development'
Health Research Policy and Systems: November 2006
Health Research Policy and Systems anounced through BioMed Central the publication of a special series of reviews 'Improving the Use of Research Evidence in Guideline Development', available from the journal website. The reviews were commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR). The series examines the methods used by WHO and other organisations to formulate recommendations about health, and is part of the documentation produced to inform ACHR’s advice to WHO in making health decisions.
Toolkit : Proposal writing and fundraising
This toolkit provides tips and practical suggestions for applying for funding and proposal writing. It is based on interviews with experienced research fundraisers. Obtaining funding for your research is a difficult achievement, so we hope this guide will help give your proposal the best possible chance of success.
Toolkits from the Alliance to mobilise communities for HIV/AIDS
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2006
”Tools Together Now!” is a toolkit of 100 Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) tools to help facilitate community mobilisation. “Tools Together Now!” is designed to help put “All Together Now! - Community mobilisation for HIV/AIDS,” into practice. Used together, these two resources will provide a powerful way for organisations and communities to work more effectively together to address HIV/AIDS.
Civil society engagement with African governments
E-Civicus, 9 September 2006
The Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) supports the work of civil society organisations in Africa through the publication of a number of reports highlighting their contributions to addressing threats to peace and security as well as development in Africa . OSAA seeks to strengthen African civil society organisations through the annual publication of this NGO directory.
GAPMINDER website
Professor Hans Rosling: International Health (Karolinska Institutet), 2006
Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, United Nations (UN) organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations. Google Subscribed Links makes it possible to search deep into Gapminder's moving graphs visualizing world development. Important document series available at this site include 'Human Development; Data Animation'and 'The World Chart'- developed in collaboration between WHO and Swedish institutions with the aim of visualising world health development, thereby enable better use of international health data for learning, advocacy and hypothesis generation. Others include a paper on 'Free software for a world in motion', focusing the need for new educational software environments for exploration of global statistics; and World Development Indicators (WDI, a publication of the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development.
IDeA knowledge capacity building toolkit
IDeA Knowledge
This toolkit has been developed to help civil society to increase local authorities’ capacity to deliver change. It’s response to the demand from local authorities for supporting development skills required for managing and delivering successful organisational change. The tools and information on this website include guidance, case studies and methodologies. These tools are coordinated and managed as a unit so that they achieve the intended outcomes and realise benefits. It breaks down into manageable chunks with monitoring and review points for assessing progress and performance in a long-term focus.