Assessing damage after disasters: a participatory framework and toolkit
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2007
People working together around the world to generate ideas and action for social change
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How to Trigger for Handwashing with Soap
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2014
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Handwashing is a vital part of good sanitation and hygiene. When Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and its aim of ODF (open defecation free) communities are fully understood and put into practice it is clear that handwashing is implicit in the approach. Without addressing handwashing and other hygiene practices, communities can never become fully ODF since CLTS aims to cut all faecal-oral contamination routes. However, in practice, the degree to which handwashing is integrated into triggering and follow up, depends on the quality of facilitation. This guide, developed in Malawi, addresses the need for specific tools that help to incorporate handwashing into CLTS.
Disabilities among refugees and conflict-affected populations:resource kit for field workers
2008
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The World Health Organisation estimates that between 7 and 10 per cent of the world’s population live with disabilities. This means between 2.5 and 3.5 million of the worlds displaced people also live with disabilities, and research shows they are among the most hidden, neglected and socially excluded of all displaced people. This resource kit provides practical ideas on how to improve services and protection for people with disabilities and enhance their inclusion and participation in community affairs. It is designed as a companion publication to the report “Disabilities among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Populations".
Organising People’s Power for Health: Participatory Methods for a People-Centred Health System
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2006
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The toolkit shows how participatory methods can be used to raise community voice, both through health research and by training communities to take effective action and become involved in the health sector. Generally, this toolkit aims to strengthen capacities in researchers, health workers and civil society personnel working at community level to use participatory methods for research, training and programme support. The toolkit uses experiences from different countries in the east and southern African region.
Africa AHEAD Training Tools
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2020
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These tools include manuals and practical guides for project managers and trainers working mainly in eastern and southern Africa.
Topics include:
- community-based environmental health promotion
- promoting health in rural communities
- school and community health clubs.