Fifteen leading economists, including three Nobel Prize winners, are fed up with randomized control trials (RCTs) determining the future of poverty alleviation [click here for the full article]. In August 2018 they banded together to speak out against what they call the “aid effectiveness” craze. They are pushing back a growing trend to use the …
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As I take over the reins of running Africa AHEAD, from my wife Dr. Juliet Waterkeyn, who retired as founding CEO at the end of 2017, I will continue the work we started together in Zimbabwe 22 years ago. I am delighted to accept this challenge of ensuring that our joint endeavours to promote the …
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At the annual UNC conference which attracts the great and the good in the WASH sector annually in North Carolina for a week of sharing experience in the WASH Sector, the most interesting people I met were two ordinary non academics who were to me the most extraordinary people in the conference…. Jude Francois and Marie …
Haitian CHCs: the magic of solidarity – how making wine brings a community together! Read More »
Juliet Waterkeyn and Nguyen Huy Nga ABSTRACT Vietnam is the first country in Asia to use the Community Health Club (CHC) Model of development in a pilot project by Ministry of Health in 3 Northern provinces in Son La, Phu Tho and Ha Tinh districts. The CHC Model was originally developed in Africa (Waterkeyn, 2010) …
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A presentation by Julius Othello at the 3rd CBEHPP Workshop 26th May 2017 World Vision is a huge Christian NGO which has been in Rwanda since the genocide in 1994 and was now working in 22 out of 30 districts with an annual budget of 4.3 million dollars in the previous year. Would they be …
Theoneste Ntakirutimana (MSc) presenting an independent study that had been done by the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, for WaterAid on their project in six sectors in Bugasera, between 2010-2013. Click here to read the full paper: 2016-wateraid-cbehpp-effectiveness ‘Of course we saw great improvement,’ he said confidently, noting how malnutrition had been …
The first presentation at the CBEHPP Workshop (25th May, 2017) was from the USAID funded INWA programme called ‘Gikuriro’, being managed by SNV. The presenter from University of Rwanda, Mr. Collins, shared the baseline study where 2,592 households had been sampled, 24 per village. They had found that 33% of the respondents had heard of …
CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER A Case Study Evaluation of Community Health Clubs in Port au Prince, Haiti 2015. Waterlines, 34(4). Jessica Brooks, MESc1; Alexandra Adams, MPH1; Nora Moraga-Lewy1; Samy Bendjemil2; Ruth Berggren, MD2; Jason Rosenfeld, MPH2 (1) Yale University (2) University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Introduction: After an absence of over …
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The CBEHPP website is available for use of all implementing partners who wish to add their Community Health Clubs to a Data Base, so enabling harmonisation of the programme across the country. The website provides each CHC with a basic page for all demographic details and photographs and enables visitors who wish to review their …
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With the international endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, we expect that the holistic CHC development model used by Africa AHEAD may become one of the most practical ways of meeting a range of development objectives. We now have established two hubs in East and Southern Africa managed by Country Directors, Mr. Joseph …
1973-2012 (Book reviews and unpublished reports are not included; books and manuals are marked *) CAIRNCROSS, A.M. 1973. Deformations around model tunnels in stiff clay. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. Atkinson, J.H. and CAIRNCROSS, A.M. 1973. Collapse of a shallow tunnel in a Mohr‑Coulomb material. Proceedings of the Roscoe Memorial Symposium on Plasticity in Soil …
At the Annual Water and Health Conference at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, (October, 2016) the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted a side event to discuss the findings of the Randomised Control Trial that has been now completed in Rwanda. The intervention took place in Rusizi District from 2012- 2016 with the objective of …
Amans Ntakarutimana and Nelson Ekane Presentation for World Water Week, Stockholm. August 2016 For full presentation click here 2016.08.23 Performance of CHC in transforming sanitation practices AN_NE KTH 2016 Introduction: There is a need to integrate policies and practices to prevent common and lifestyle associated diseases (CDs & NCDs) for healthy communities, socio economic development and …
January 28th, 2016 RECORDING NOW ON-LINE SuSanA-SEI webinars funded by BMGF grantees https://youtu.be/b2FLqEC4wlI?list=PL0gMdVBup-4MCymOPomtqL_XYT5YtLTSK Webinar content: Improving access to sanitation and hygiene and changing behaviours can bring not only health benefits but also many other positive changes in a community, including social, economic and environmental gains. Deepening our understanding of the linkages between sanitation interventions and …
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This website has been developed to enable the registration of your community health clubs to form an international data base of projects where the CHC approach is being used. This mapping of CHCs in each country should be a good resource for Ministries and NGOs alike so as to avoid unnecessary replication between implementing …
SIDE EVENT: Friday 30th October, 2015 UNC Water institute Conference, University North Carolina In seeking to improve our performance in the WASH Sector for the post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals, we should replicate and scale up a development model that has worked. Objectives of the seminar: To provide concrete examples of an integrated …
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Background In 2014, Africa AHEAD (ZimAHEAD) partnered with ADRA Zimbabwe to train 250 Community Based Facilitators as well as Ward and District level government officials in Wards 8, 9, 33 and 34 including 8 schools on starting and strengthening existing Community and School Health Clubs to scale up public health promotion. Bee keeping training was …
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