We have created a single-page PDF to explain what we offer in a nutshell – feel free to pass on to colleagues or to print out and stick on a suitable noticeboard.
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Here at Networklearning we have found another reason to like checklists. They are a great way of ensuring good training and improving the way professionals do their work. And now a checklist is saving lives. A study carried in eight hospitals across the world has found that using one during major operations cut deaths and complications by more than a third. It ensured that the surgical team checked that they had the right patient, checked that all the swabs and forceps were removed before the patient was sewn up, and so on. Has your organisation developed any checklists for your own workers? We would be very interested to hear about any improvements it has made. Source: news.bbc.co.uk
This expanded edition of Bryan Walker’s manual is updated and restructured, and has a new section of games and learning activities. » Download directly from the Library
We are pleased to announce the release of a new manual specifically designed to plug a gap – by helping NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa who want to do more in the field of Human Rights. A lot of consideration and cross-cultural consultation has gone into the making of An Introduction to Human Rights in the Middle East & North Africa – a Guide for NGOs . Note, for slow internet connections, we recommend to download the smaller (1Mb) PDF rather than the Word doc. We’re now have an Arabic language version of this title to join our growing list of manuals and resources in Arabic . Games are a great way to get behaviour change. So we thought we’d breathe new life into an old favourite – Having Healthy Babies: an Educational “Snakes and Ladders” Game gets across the key messages via a colourful game board and question cards. Full supporting information and instructions included! Finally, in case you didn’t notice it slip into our library in the summer: we have a handy 17-page guide to Managing the Project Cycle .
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Networklearning recently took the step to become a stichting – that is an officially registered body (in the Netherlands, where our core team is based) – with a written constitution: setting out our fundamental goals, the means we’ll use to achieve them, and how our organisation will be managed.
If you work in a region where there has been periods of warfare, major displacement and/or huge repression, your workers have surely met people suffering from mental stress and other problems. Is this a good time to think of actively helping them, in a systematic and informed way? Our new manual Finding Mental Health after Conflict (28 pp. PDF) can guide you with this work. Two new Arabic titles: We now have Arabic language versions of An Introduction to Human Rights in the Middle East & North Africa – a Guide for NGOs (49 pp. PDF) as well as our popular title, A Guide to Fundraising (10 pp. PDF). For more, see our manuals and resources in Arabic Since our last announcement, we have also added a guest publication, the illustrated We can play and move: ideas to help disabled children learn to move through play .
A call to all of us working in the South – in Africa, Asia, the ex-Soviet countries, the Asian Pacific etc. It is time for us to look again at the Earth and the big issues around sex and reproduction. It is not only the job of the Health NGOs – it is everybody’s job.