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Promoting the role of marginalised communities in development
I attended an excellent event yesterday in London where VSO and United Nations Volunteers (UNV) formally launched their new partnership to promote innovation in volunteerism, strengthen volunteer action and to improve practices. Crucially, the partnership will promote the role and voice of volunteers from mariginalised communities in development.
In the ornate… Read more »
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Health workers issue heard loud and clear at UN
In New York, the issue of health workers was heard loud and clear at the UN General Assembly last month, through the actions of a wide ranging coalition of NGOs including VSO. The aim was to bring attention to the global shortage of health workers and to encourage world leaders to be… Read more »
Malawi’s health workforce programme moves beyond emergency stage
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Government of Malawi recently carried out an evaluation of the Emergency Human Resources Programme (ERHP) in Malawi. DFID is a major funding partner of EHRP and much of VSO’s health programme in Malawi in recent years has been funded under… Read more »
DFID Bilateral Aid Report reflects goals of VSO’s Valuing Health Workers
VSO partners and volunteers in the health field have for years been emphasising that a key impediment to improved health services has been a lack of trained health workers in developing countries. So in our international advocacy work, VSO has emphasised the importance of health workers as the key enablers of health policy. We’ve taken… Read more »
No health workforce, no health MDGs?
VSO supported two events at the MDG summit in September, where high-level delegates, policymakers and civil society organisations met at the United Nations Headquarters to address the critical question: “No health workforce. No health MDGs. Is that acceptable?”
The MDG Summit side-event was organised by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) and the Read more »
An M&E nerd, caregivers and HIV indicators
My name is Mike Podmore and I am an ‘M&E nerd’. There I said it. It has been a strange two-year road that has led my M&E (monitoring and evaluation) colleagues here at VSO to cheerfully bestow this dubious title upon me. What led me to this position you may ask?
It started… Read more »
