Mobile fundraising is emerging as a new tool for organisations to identify potential donors to raise money. Mobile phones are being used across the world to raise money for social causes such as disaster relief, poverty, cancer research, rescuing abandoned animals and supporting other human needs. This manual examines the effectiveness of non-profit and non-governmental organisations using mobile phones to build their constituent lists, influence political causes, support case studies and raise money. Areas covered include: mobile fundraising for humanitarian relief, partnerships between charities and commercial entities, harnessing media and the entertainment industry, the interplay between donors and activists, and calculating the return on your investment in mobile fundraising. It concludes with some examples of mobile fundraising and the lessons learnt.
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This assessment guide leads you through a five-step process to document aspects of the denial of the right to health care in your country. It suggests how to lobby and set up activist strategies for addressing the violations you identify. The steps, in brief, aim to answer the following questions. Step 1: What are your government’s commitments? Step 2: Are your government’s policies appropriate to fulfill these obligations? Step 3: Is the health system of your country adequately implementing interventions to realize the right to health and health care for all? Step 4: Does the health status of different social groups and the population as a whole reflect a progression in their right to health and health care? Step 5: What does the denial or fulfillment of the right to health in your country mean in practice? In this final step, you should systematically contrast the obligations outlined in Step 1 with the realities documented in Steps 2, 3 and 4, and briefly highlight the main areas of denial of health rights in your country.
Primary health care is at the heart of the plans to transform the health services in South Africa. This document provides an integrated package of essential primary health care services available to the entire population will provide the solid foundations of a single, unified health system. It as the driving force in promoting equity in health care. The document sets out the norms and standards that are to be made available in the essential package of primary care services, for individuals to see what quality of primary care services they can expect to receive. It also acts as guidance for provincial and district health authorities to provide these services. The document contains norms and standards for clinic and community services. A noorm is defined as a statistical normative rate of provision or measurable target outcome over a specified period of time.
A standard is defined as a statement about a desired and acceptable level of health care. Standard setting takes place within specific dimensions of quality -- acceptability, accessibility, appropriateness, continuity, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, interpersonal relations, technical competence and safety. The most important dimensions have been chosen for each service.
Clinical trial reports usually give estimates of treatment effects, their confidence intervals and p values. But what do these terms mean? The statistical methods and their technical meaning are well established. However, there is less clarity about the concise interpretative wording that authors should use, especially in the abstract and conclusions and by others in commentaries. This article offers guidance and assumes that one short sentence needs to capture the essence of a trial's findings for the primary endpoint. It explains technical terms simply and aims to help researchers to achieve this objective in their writing.
With some of the worst health indicators and the least adequate health services in the world, providing health services and rebuilding health systems in fragile states is a complex undertaking. This Health and Fragile States dossier highlights the challenges and approaches to delivering health services in fragile states. The dossier covers a number of issues and poses a number of questions. What are fragile states? How can the health-related Millennium Development Goals be met in these states? What are the best approaches for delivering health services in fragile states? How can the World Health Organization’s six building blocks for health systems strengthening be used as a framework for planning and priority-setting in fragile states? What are the implications of the international aid effectiveness agenda for the building of resilient and responsive states to deliver basic services?
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design is a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through communicating vital information with greater impact. This project aims to raise awareness, introduce concepts, and promote good practice in information design – a powerful tool for advocacy, outreach, research, organisation and education. Effective communcation is essential for any organisation to operate properly, and the guide covers all aspects of business communication. It is part of a programme of work by Tactical Technology Collective to promote research, development and design in the public interest.
Do you want to use multimedia, online or offline tools to advance your cause creatively and effectively? Would you like to reach the broadest possible audience? Do you want to create and distribute audio programmes, comic books, posters and newsletters? What about setting up a website or a blog to champion your issue? Message-in-a-Box can be used as a resource for any citizen-based journalism work. Combining tools and the tactics to use them is a great way to put technology in context. Tools are only effective if they are matched with effective planning and good strategies and when they are matched with skills and resources. Message-in-a-Box delivers information on doing all this.
This guide presents advocates with a collection of popular online services that can be used for advocacy quickly with little to no technical support. There are services for publishing photographs and video, for setting up a campaign blog or for using mobiles to communicate in a group. An amazing amount of functionality and tools are available simply by connecting to the internet and opening up a web browser. You don't need to have a lot of technical expertise to try some of these. You also don't need much money, as these services are offered at low or no cost. They require a broadband connection and are not recommended for dial-up connections. Advocates can easily and quickly connect, gather information and distribute powerful messages by utilising these services, while the majority of technology is out of sight. This guide presents use of these services from a Northern perspective, though it has tried to present alternative services popular in different regions and languages.
This booklet is an effective guide to using maps in advocacy. The mapping process for advocacy is explained vividly through case studies, descriptions of procedures and methods, a review of data sources and a glossary of mapping terminology. Scattered through the booklet are links to websites that afford a glance at a few prolific mapping efforts. Hosting a map on your website can now become a reality as the guide takes you through the specifics of the process. Examples of valuable data sources, like youtube, facebook, flickr and socialight, have been cited, along with a brief outline of their mapping features. The fold-out offers an illustrative sketch of the inside story, while the fold-in explains a swift and easy method to create a map. The purpose of the booklet is to enable advocacy groups explore the potential of maps to effectively send out their message.
The new movement, Economic Governance for Health (EG4Health) promises to be a useful resource for health activists. Its launch coincided with protests and campaigns across the world and involving hundreds of thousands of people angry at the evidence of global financial mismanagement, corruption and rising economic inequalities. A 'Put People First' march in London, host of the G20 meeting, was supported by over 150 civil society organisations. EG4Health presents a 12-point plan for democratic economic governance, as well as a more detailed policy paper, included in this edition of the EQUINET newsletter.