The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and the World Bank are partnering to oversee strategies to address gender based violence through the lens of education, capacity building and economic growth. [Read More]
With the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals fast approaching over 60 partners from the African Union, Regional Economic Communities, civil society, UN organisations and development partners met in Brazzaville, Congo Wednesday through Friday to streamline harmonisation and coordination of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria responses. [Read More]
2/24/14
According to the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union, as of last year, there were nearly as many mobile subscriptions as people on the planet. Even more important than the ubiquity of mobile phones is how they're being used: to empower women. [Read More] 2/10/14
Cell phone technology has become an integral part of Africa's healthcare landscape, providing life-saving information at a small cost. According to the World Bank, there are roughly 650 million cell phones in Africa, over taking numbers in both the United States and Europe. While the number of Africans with laptops and tablets may not be as high as in the Western world, the changing face of healthcare has been significant enough to have become a key focus at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. [Read More] Health Financing in Africa Blog: A Global Fund for Health: towards truly shared responsibility3/11/2014
In a recent Chatham House working group paper, Gorik Ooms (ITM) & Rachel Hammonds (ITM) explored whether a Global Fund for Health is a realistic option in the medium/long term, both from the perspective of so called “donor” and “partner” countries. Isidore Sieleunou had an interview with the first author. Gorik zooms in on some of the key messages, political trade-offs involved and implications. [Read More]
March 4, 2014
Arusha — The East African Community Secretariat and European Union Delegation to the United Republic of Tanzania and to the EAC today signed a Financing Agreement totaling 4.45 Million Euros to support Regional Integration Support Programme (RISP 3) at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. The programme aims at increasing the capacities of the Partner States to implement the EAC Treaty provisions and Protocols in the areas of Custom Union, Common Market and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the EAC Organs. The objective of this programme is to support the EAC region, the Secretariat and its 5 Partner States in their efforts to deepen integration agenda and increase competitiveness. [Read More] February 26, 2014
Africa’s first “one-stop” data centre, the Africa Information Highway, was officially launched on Monday, February 24 in Pretoria, South Africa, by the African Development Bank. ... Conceptualized and developed by the African Development Bank’s Statistics Department, the Africa Information Highway (AIH) is a revolutionary data management and dissemination platform that will impact how data is collected, stored and ultimately used by anyone who accesses it. [Read More] March 1, 2014
Deputy Minister for Health and Social Welfare yesterday told a health conference here that Tanzania is committed to meet the Abuja declaration that requires countries to allocate 15 percent of their annual national budgets to the health sector. Dr Stephen Kebwe told medical experts, Health Ministers and other health players from within and outside Africa that Tanzania is making progress in reducing the number of women who die during delivery from 578 to 458 out of 100,000. [Read More] For the 7th African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference, AfrEA is proud to partner with the Claremont Evaluation Center and the Rockefeller Foundation to bring you live webcasts of selected workshops and sessions from the conference free of charge! Even if you are not able to attend the conference in-person, you can still have access to the cutting-edge topics being discussed at AfrEA, and you will be able to chat and network with other online participants!
The webcasts will occur March 3-7, and you can find the schedule of webcast sessions and their associated links here: http://bit.ly/1fTwch0. You can also find this schedule of sessions by their associated conference strand here: http://bit.ly/OQtorz. The full program can be found here [Read More] This Road map builds upon a number of national, subregional, regional and global HRH efforts. It has the following six strategic areas for achieving the objectives:
1. Strengthening health workforce leadership and governance capacity. 2. Strengthening HRH regulatory capacity. 3. Scaling up education and training of health workers. 4. Optimizing the utilization, retention and performance of the active health workforce. 5. Improving health workforce information and generation of evidence for decision making. 6. Strengthening health workforce dialogue and partnership. [Download Here] |