Closing date for applications: October 20 2001
The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) has played a role over the past three years in highlighting issues of equity in health in southern Africa. It does so by networking professionals, civil society and policy makers to promote policies for equity in health, undertaking research, initiating conferences, workshops, and discussions through the internet, and providing inputs at the SADC forums.
Noting the already significant work taking place on poverty, poverty reduction strategy papers and the links to health, and equally the strength of policy commitment to equity in health, and noting work already done by EQUINET in this area (which will be provided), EQUINET seeks to commission a paper to inform policy and research work on poverty, equity and health in southern Africa. More specifically the paper should address the following issues:
1. Using existing work done by EQUINET, WHO etc on poverty-equity-human rights links, briefly outline a conceptual framework relevant to public policy and practice for linking poverty and equity in health in southern Africa, where both poverty and inequality are extremely high. This should show both the points of distinction and of linkage between poverty and equity.
2. Identify from this, and supported where possible by evidence gathered by EQUINET, MAP and major poverty monitoring initiatives, where public policy priorities lie in dealing with the poverty-equity issues in health.
3. On the basis of the above, discuss the specific health sector measures / policies and features of policy processes that are pro-poor or enhance equity outcomes and those that exacerbate both inequity and poverty.
4. Critically assess the extent to which these measures and processes are present in PRSPs in southern Africa (using available web documentation of PRSPs and PRSP processes) and the implications for ensuring that PRSPs better integrate poverty-equity linkages.
Time frame: Six months, with an expected work time of three months.
Fee: Usd4 500
Process: Applicants are asked to submit a proposal for the grant that includes
i. a CV, clearly identifying previous work and documents authored in the areas of poverty, equity and health
ii. a sample of a paper produced by the applicant
iii. in one page a list in bullet form of the points to be considered in preparing the conceptual outline in item (1) of the paper and a paragraph of the broad issues most likely to be covered in item (4)
Applications should be sent, with contact postal, fax and email address to
TARSC 47 Van Praagh Ave, Milton Park, Harare, Zimbabwe
Ph: 263-4-708835 Fax: 263-4-737 220 Email: rloewenson@healthnet.zw
Jobs and Announcements
The Partnership for Global Health Equity is a small grants facility created to provide seed funding for Canada-South partnerships that involve the production or utilisation of equity-oriented research for health. The Partnership is housed at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and has a number of contributors, including IDRC, RITC, CIDA, CSIH, CPHA, and other Canadian and developing country health research organisations. The inaugural October 2001 competition will be administered by the Canadian Society for International Health. The Partnership seeks to encourage a range of innovative health research related activities and partnerships that are focussed on the health priorities faced by Southern countries and are pro-equity, gender-sensitive, participatory, and trans-disciplinary. Priority research areas include tobacco control policy, population health and community-based approaches to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, health equity, and globalisation and health. The Partnership intends to fund research whose current theme, approach, and/or partnerships do not readily fit under already existing funding frameworks, and thus to identify some of the current gaps in health research funding and to explore mechanisms to increase the resources available for important and innovative health research activities. The application deadline is October 1st 2001.
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