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An Introduction to Evaluation of Humanitarian Action. Course Manual

Margie Buchanan-Smith and John Telford Channel Research; ALNAP (2006)

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Situational Analysis on Post-Rape Care of Children in Lesotho

Levy, Marcy, Veronica Magar, and Derrick Sialondwe Arlington, VA: USAID’s AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1 (2013)

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Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluation of Human Resources for Health with special applications for low- and middle-income countries

Mario R Dal Poz, Neeru Gupta, Estelle Quain and Agnes LB Soucat World Health Organization (WHO); USAID; The World Bank (2009)

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Progress Report on the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1983

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS) (2016) C2

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Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana

Ursula M Read, Edward Adiibokah and Solomon Nyame Globalization and Health (2009) CC

The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. The maltreatment of the mentally ill in many low-income countries is widely reported within psychiatric hospitals, informal healing centres, and family hom... more

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Assessing national capacity for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: report of the 2010 global survey

World Health Organization (2012) C_WHO

This report reviews the current situation in relation to national capacity to address NCDs and the progress made at country level over the past decade. It highlights that, while progress is being made, there is still much work to be done to create the infrastructure, policies, surveillance and healt... more

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WPA guidance on steps, obstacles and mistakes to avoid in the implementation of community mental health care

Thornicroft G, Alem A, Antunes Dos Santos R, et al. (2010) CC

World Psychiatry. 2010 Jun;9(2):67-77. The main recommendations are presented in relation to: the need for coordinated policies, plans and programmes, the requirement to scale up services for whole populations, the importance of promoting community awareness about mental illness to increase levels ... more

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Epilepsy and Education in developing countries: a survey of school teachers’ knowledge about epilepsy and their attitude towards students with epilepsy in Northwestern Nigeria

L. F. Owolabi; N. M. Shehu; S. D. Owolabi Pan African Medical Journal (2014) CC

Received: 16/11/2013 - Accepted: 23/03/2014 - Published: 27/07/2014

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Revised WHO classification and treatment of childhood pneumonia at health facilities

World Health Organization (2014)

The revised guidelines present two major changes to existing guidelines: (A) there are now just 2 categories of pneumonia instead of 3 (“pneumonia” which is treated at home with oral amoxicillin and “severe pneumonia” which requires injectable antibiotics) and (B) oral amoxicillin replaces o... more

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Community-facility Linkages to Support the Scale up of Lifelong Treatment for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Living with HIV: A Conceptual Framework, Compendium of Promising Practices and Key Operat

Ackerman Gulaid, Laurie United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2015)

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Addressing accountability in NGO advocacy - Practice, principles and prospects of self-regulation

M. Hammer; C. Rooney; S. Warren One World Trust (2010) C2

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Africa, WASH, and the Millennium Development Goals: A Local Systems Case Study of How South Africa Achieved MDG Target 7c

Muller, Helgard et al. USAID (2017) C1

Democratic dispensation in 1994 created a political and social platform that reshaped life in South Africa. There was a surge in common belief that the inequity and wrong of Apartheid should and could be rectified. Equity of access to water and sanitation were obvious targets for improvement. In 199... more

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Living in Chains: Shackling of People with Psychosocial Disabilities Worldwide

Human Rights Watch HRW (2020) C1

The report examines how people with mental health conditions are often shackled by families in their own homes or in overcrowded and unsanitary institutions, against their will, due to widespread stigma and a lack of mental health services. Many are forced to eat, sleep, urinate, and defecate in t... more

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Situational assessment checklist to guide implementation of the global strategy for tuberculosis research and innovation

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

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Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities

Karen LeBan , Maryse Kok and Henry B. Perry Health Research Policy and Systems (2021) CC

This is the ninth paper in our series, “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era”. Community health workers (CHWs) are in an intermediary position between the health system and the community. While this position provides CHWs with a good platform to improve community health, a major cha... more

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The compound impact of extreme weather events and COVID-19

Walton D., Arrighi J., et al. IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross (2021) C2

From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic until August 2021, extreme weather events have affected at least 139.2 million people and killed at least 17,242 people in at least 433 unique events. These figures are certainly an underestimate, as they do not include estimates of numbers of people affected ... more

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Assessing the impact of Covid-19 on older people in the African Region

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2022) C_WHO

A study conducted by the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on older persons both globally and in the African region. Although overall the region’s population is younger relative to many other world regions, the WHO AFRO region ... more

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Walking into the Eye of the Storm: How the climate crisis is driving child migration and displacement

Clarey, T.; Jiwanji, A.; Selby, S. (2021) CC

Discussions about climate change often focus on the future, but millions of children are experiencing its devastating impacts now. The scale of the crisis is huge, and growing fast. It is children that will bear the brunt of climate change, yet its impact on them is understudied, their voices are no... more

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Perceptions and experiences of nurses about the mobile clinic work environment

Stemmet, C.L. (2016) C1

Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing Science in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University. The mobile clinic health care services fulfil an essential role in delivering primary health care to the dwellers in the rural commun... more

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Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

During the 17 years since Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis was first published, there has been heightened awareness of the physical, economic and emotional burden of the genitourinary manifestations of filariasis. With the impetus to provide better guidanc... more