Latest Equinet Updates

Call for applicants for two small country level research grants on resource allocation for equity in health
Call Closes On 21 April 2006

EQUINET through the Health Economics Unit University of Cape Town, Cape Town South Africa invites applicants for two small research grants (of £1500 each) to undertake small-scale country level case studies on the implementation of equitable resource allocation. Applicants should come from countries that are currently implementing health care resource allocation based on a needs-based resource allocation formula or similar approach.

Further details: /newsletter/id/31428
Call for Applicants: Country studies on food security and nutrition programmes in East and Southern Africa
Call closes April 3 2006

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in east and southern Africa (EQUINET) and the Health Systems Research Unit of Medical Research Council (MRC), South Africa invite interested individuals/groups to apply for grants to prepare commissioned country case studies on existing food security and nutrition programmes in the region that demonstrate good practice in health systems promotion of food sovereignty and equity.

Further details: /newsletter/id/31302
Call for applicants: Review of district health systems facilitators and barriers to participation in health
Call closes March 20 2006

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in east and southern Africa (EQUINET) EQUINET is inviting interested people to apply for a grant to prepare a commissioned paper on district health systems facilitators and barriers to community participation in health. The commissioned author will review and analyse literature and secondary evidence to present evidence and analysis of the current situation with regard to community voice and roles at district level; how district planning, decision making, financing and budgeting, resource allocation, programme implementation enable or block such participation, and how districts articulate and represent community interests at national level. It is hoped that the paper will present positive case studies of community representation and district facilitation of community voice at national level.

Further details: /newsletter/id/31312
Call for Applicants: Student Research Grants on Equity in Health
Grant application date extended

Call Closes On March 20 2006
The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) promotes policies for equity in health across a range of priority theme areas (See www.equinetafrica.org). EQUINET invites applicants for small research grants for post graduate and undergraduate students in East and Southern Africa. Students are encouraged to submit focused proposals that look at a specific issue and either organise secondary evidence or gather empirical evidence in one of the priority areas of EQUINET work listed below.

Further details: /newsletter/id/31301
Student research grants on equity in health
Call for Participants

EQUINET invites applicants for small research grants for post graduate and undergraduate students in East and Southern Africa. Students are encouraged to submit focused proposals that look at a specific issue and either organise secondary evidence or gather empirical evidence in one of the priority areas of EQUINET work.

Further details: /newsletter/id/31267
Training Workshop on Participatory methods for research and training for a people centred health system
Contact us if you are interested in such training

EQUINET will be holding a Workshop on Participatory Methods for for research and training for a people centred health system in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, March 1-4, 2006. TARSC and IHRDC under the EQUINET umbrella and with support from CHESSORE have developed a toolkit of materials on participatory reflection and action (PRA) methods for research and training for a people centred health system. The materials provide information on areas for strengthening community voice and roles in health systems and introduce and provide examples of participatory approaches for training and research that supports this. EQUINEt will also be providing some small grants to support research and training using PRA methods for those who have completed the course.

Those interested in this area of training please contact us at admin@equinetafrica.org

Further details: /newsletter/id/31256
Regional meeting on Promoting Health in Trade agreements, 29 October 2005

The workshop on Protecting health in Trade agreements held in Johannesburg in October 2005 was held within an EQUINET programme with Centre for Health Policy South Africa and SEATINI Zimbabwe that aims to build capacities in state, legislative and civil society institutions to know, understand, analyse and promote public sector equity oriented health systems within trade and investment policies and agreements. The workshop reviewed the work and research papers of the capacity building programme implemented in Tanzania and Zimbabwe to date.

Training Workshop on Participatory methods
Call Closes January 23, 2006!

Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC), the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (IHRDC) with The Southern African Regional Network on Equity in Health (EQUINET) and CHESSORE Zambia invites applicants to participate and share experiences in a Workshop on Participatory Methods for research and training for a people centred health system being held in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, March 1-4, 2006.

EQUINET regional review meeting: A common agenda for equity in health in east and southern Africa
Harare, 10-12 October 2005

The regional review meeting brought together steering committee members; theme, process and country co-ordinators; colleagues working in key areas of work central to EQUINET’s agenda; and civil society colleagues. The meeting reviewed EQUINET current work to shape and critically debate the form and content for the annual equity analysis at regional (and country) level.

Report of the regional review meeting: Promoting health in trade agreements
Johannesburg, 29 October 2005

The workshop aimed to review the work and research papers of the capacity building programme implemented in Tanzania and Zimbabwe to date. The purpose of the workshop was thus to review the training, findings and programme in order to identify issues arising for policy support, future capacity building, extension to other countries in the region and to strengthen linkages with other work on trade and health.

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