This manual explains clearly the basic concepts around Financial Capacity, Plans and Budgets, and gives a detailed explanation of Financial Management. It includes a glossary and bookkeeping tools.
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.
Recently we talked in a blog about women-friendly spaces. In UNICEF’s report State of the World’s Children (2012) there are examples of NGOs providing teenage-friendly spaces . The report focuses on the fact that more and more children and teenagers are growing up in cities. Think of the difficulties of being poor, female, (males another time) living in an urban slum.
This piece is about female condoms. I bring them up for discussion because they are currently out of the limelight. When they first appeared, they seemed full of promise – a method of protection against pregnancy and HIV which could be used and controlled by women. In practice they pose problems – including the fact that they are a bit of a joke. So this is a reminder of the key facts and issues.
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.
How to Run a Workshop is now available in Arabic. Thanks to Mubarak for this translation.
Do you get the Drumbeat newsletter? Every so often they send out an issue on Awards and funding. These tend to be small-scale and specific to people or areas – but if you fit these conditions…why not try? For example, New Field Foundation has grant money and wants the submission of introductory information from organisations in certain areas of West Africa that are: headed by African women; working to improve rural women’s organisations, their families, communities, and countries etc; Deadline: Rolling > New Field Foundation Grants