Health Cluster Guide

A practical guide for country-level implementation of the Health Cluster

Contents - Acknowledgements - Goal and Expected Outputs - About this Guide [pdf 56kb] - Acronyms and abbreviations [pdf 96kb] - Glossary of key terms (and concepts) - Chapter 1: Role and functioning of a health cluster [pdf 940kb] - Chapter 2: Assuring effective coordination [pdf 897kb] - Chapter 3: Assessing and monitoring the health situation [pdf 1.58Mb] - Chapter 4: Analysing and prioritizing [pdf 897kb] - Chapter 5: Developing a strategy; planning [pdf 1.08Mb] - Chapter 6: Ensuring standards [pdf 782kb] - Chapter 7: Advocacy and resource mobilization [pdf 783kb] - Chapter 8: Monitoring cluster performance [pdf 738kb] - Chapter 9: Standard services and indicator list [pdf 1.77Mb] Annexes A. Generic Terms of Reference for Sector Leads at the Country Level [pdf 26kb] B. Types and phases of assessment in a humanitarian crisis [pdf 41kb] C. General principles for all data collection activities [pdf 32kb] D. Drawing up an assessment plan, schedule and budget [pdf 113kb] E. Stakeholder analysis [pdf 27kb] F. Priority Cross-cutting Issues [pdf 35kb] G. Analysing response options; examples of negative effects [pdf 21kb] Downloads Full Health Cluster Guide in PDF format with external links to reference documents [pdf 13.05Mb] Tools Tools in English and French Background documents Background documents in English and French

Request for feed back

This provisional version is intended to be used for extensive field test-ing during the second half of 2009 and first half of 2010, and feedback is sought from national health authorities and organizations providing health services in humanitarian crisis, especially those participating in health clusters or other health sector coordination groups at country and sub-national levels. Following a review process in the second half of 2010, a revised and up-dated edition of the Guide will be produced.

Please send comments and suggestions for improvements to the Global Health Cluster Secretariat at: healthcluster@who.int indicating “Feedback on health cluster guide” in the subject line.