Webinar 1: Evaluating Institutional Health Partnerships
Streamed on Friday 30 April
Institutional Health Partnerships are important, and the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted their importance even more. At the same time it is important that these partnerships are truly equal, allowing for mutual learning. It is therefore important not only to evaluate the implementation of a specific project, but the quality of the partnership itself. In this we webinar we invited our speakers to discuss the following:
- Why should we evaluate Institutional partnerships?
- How can we make the most of the results of such an evaluation?
- Lessons learnt from the partnerhips’ evaluation processes.
Speakers
- Vicky Doyle, Director, Capacity Development International
- Ahmed Razavi, Consultant in global public health and the Africa portfolio lead for the IHR Strengthening Project at Public Health England.
- David Weakliam, Global Health Programme Director in the Health Service Executive in Ireland. ESTHER Ireland
New Website Launch - WHO COVID-19: Health Services Learning Hub
The WHO COVID-19: Health Services Learning Hub (HLH) is a dynamic new platform that uses innovative approaches to collate, document and synthesise emerging areas of learning on the maintenance of essential health services to support countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, including the recovery and post-pandemic phase.
The HLH launched on April 1st 2021
New Online Community Platform: Pulse!
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Pulse platform in partnership with THET.
The Pulse community aims to create an online space for health partnerships to connect, create and collaborate with one another. Enabling the sharing of learning, project development and furthering a sense of community amongst Health Partnerships and volunteers. Pulse helps to create a world where health workers are empowered to grow and lead health systems strengthening worldwide.
Our community supports, protects, motivates and equips the global health workforce to deliver quality health care.
We are an alliance of governments and allied organizations. Our members engage institutions in effective and sustainable North-South partnerships. Our partnerships strengthen the capacity of the health workforce and institutions to provide quality health services for people in low and middle-income countries. We promote institutional health partnerships through knowledge generation, sharing best practice, collaboration, and advocacy.
The ESTHER Alliance is set in the general framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. We contribute mostly to SDG 3 Good Health and Wellbeing and SDF 17 Partnerships for the Goals. Those two goals taken together highlight not only what we want to achieve (better health for all, or Universal Health Coverage), but also how we want to achieve it (through better, more equal, and balanced partnerships.
This is a new tool for institutional health partnerships, EFFECt stands for EFFective in Embedding Change. The tool specifically focusses on assessing implementation best practice, embedding change and the added benefits to individuals and institutions of using a partnership approach. The EFFECt tool measures these in relation to capacity building activities irrespective of the focus of the specific intervention.
