We are delighted to offer a new edition of our popular guest publication about employment in the humanitarian sector. ‘Better Ways to Succeed in Aid and Development Work’ is a thoroughly informative guide to ‘getting started, getting in and getting on’.
» Download directly from the Library
Also newly revised, including extra information and appendices:
» Better Ways to Stay Healthy in Asian Tropics.
Thanks to Bryan Walker for providing these.
Two colleagues have done a literature review on the Information needs of health care workers in developing countries with a focus on Africa. Their damning conclusion: “Health care workers in developing countries continue to lack access to basic, practical information to enable them to deliver safe, effective care.
Here at Networklearning we are asking you to think about Childhood Development following a recent issue on the subject in the Lancet (ref. 1). One aspect is the use of Vitamin A.
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Networklearning recently took the step to become a stichting – that is an officially registered body (in the Netherlands, where our core team is based) – with a written constitution: setting out our fundamental goals, the means we’ll use to achieve them, and how our organisation will be managed.
We have received a paper on silicosis from Aung Ko Ko, now with UNDP in Myanmar (Burma) and with a background in Public Health. He reminds us of all the occupational diseases which continue to cripple and kill in the Developing Countries. The West had silicosis and other killers of the Industrial Revolution, illnesses like mill fever and phossy jaw that went away with Trades Unions and forward-thinking legislation, with laws and inspections and owners (occasionally) imprisoned. But for the workers of Myanmar still it goes on. > Poverty & occupational health: Silicosis
NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software, tailored to the needs of NGOs. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this. > http://base.ngoinabox.org/
Take a look at www.translate.google.com . This is a translation service provided by a computer and so it is not perfect. The question you want to ask is, can you use it despite its limitations?