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Volunteers for a healthy community
Should development agencies support community health volunteers or only advocate for fully trained health professionals? Should village health workers be paid or not? What circumstances create a successful community health worker programme? VSO has published a new Position Paper on Community Health Volunteering to help answer questions like these. The paper draws on… Read more »
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Leading learning in Zanzibar
Zanzibar has made great achievements in the provision of schools since its independence, growing from some 20 schools in 1964 to almost 350 in early 2010. However, maintaining the quality of education within this enormous expansion has been difficult.
VSO Tanzania has worked alongside the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training… Read more »
Wangari Maathai’s dream lives on through VSO Jitolee partners
The death of Nobel Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has saddened VSO livelihoods practioners around the world, especially in her native Kenya.
Last November VSO Jitolee staff, volunteers and their partners from the secure livelihoods programme planted trees at Loikitok. It’s at the bottom of Mt.… Read more »
Leading learning in Zanzibar
I was delighted to hear about the fantastic progress of a research project that I’ve been supporting in Zanzibar. VSO volunteers Martin Brown and Yasmin Ajmal were working directly for the Commissioner for Education and Director of Inspection in the Zanzibar Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT).
Over the course of their… Read more »
Forward ever – care and support for eastern and southern Africa
‘Opportunities multiply when they are seized, die when they are not!’ Benjamin Franklin’s inspiring words rang true at the workshop for MPs from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, held from 17 to 19 April 2011 in Naivasha, Kenya. The workshop that was organised jointly by VSO Jitolee and 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 »
