WHA Lunch time session, 23 May 2013 on WHO EVIPNet technical support in Evidence-Informed policy-Making in Member States

66 World Health Assembly – 23 May 2013 - Lunch time session 12:30 – 14:00 on WHO EVIPNet technical support in Evidence-Informed policy-Making in Member States Lunch time session. Palais des Nations Room IX (nine)

• More about the event and access to the agenda and background documents

From 18 to 21 February 2013, Training of Trainers (ToT) in evidence informed policy-making was hosted in Addis Ababa with the participation and support of Dr Pierre MPELE-KILEBOU, WHO Representative in Ethiopia. 18 participants from EVIPNet country teams (Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon) were trained to become trainers in their respective country with learner centered pedagogy approach in partnership with BLDS (British Library for Development Studies) and INASP.

• Workshop report
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In December 2012 EVIPNet Africa meeting was hold in Brazzaville, Congo to develop a work-plan to strengthen the nine existing EVIPNet country teams and to scale-up the number of new EVIPNet country teams in the region, to improve evidence informed policy-making in AFRO Member States, according to the Algiers Declaration on Research for Health and the implementation of the AFRO research strategy.

• Report on the workshop from WHO AFRO Regional Office (in French)
• Report on the workshop in English
  pdf, 113kb

In October 2012 in Tunis, Tunisia, regional workshop for francophone Arab countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Djibouti) was held with around 15 senior policymakers, programmes manager and researchers to develop evidence brief for policy on reproductive and maternal mortality issues and to learn about how to communicate about it with the different stakeholders involve in policy-making process. It was the first workshop on policy communication for French speakers in Arab countries organized by two UN agencies, WHO and UNFPA and part of the success of the workshop. It was occasion to demonstrate the value of constructive sharing and collaboration specifically to have one UN family. This type of UN partnership is just the beginning of sustainable and efficient collaboration.

• Report of the workshop in French
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