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Newsletter 31.07.2019

Editorial

Dear colleagues, whether you’re enjoying your summer break or working in the sweltering heat, take a moment to browse through Healthy DEvelopments latest news: BMZ’s population dynamics handbook is now available as online portal, portraying the challenges the issue presents and ways to tackle them - sector by sector. The largest ever pandemic preparedness simulation exercise in African history was conducted in the Kenyan-Tanzanian border region. The German-supported mobile laboratories played an important role and the German PanPrep project supported EAC in preparing and coordinating the endeavour. In Liberia, a multi-step process towards gender-responsiveness was developed with and for health worker training institutions and its guiding document and toolbox are now available on our portal. And there is more below… Enjoy the reading! One little note on our editorial team: We thank and bid farewell to Karolina Luczak Santana and welcome her successor Maja Opua. Your editorial team (one last time) Karolina Luczak Santana & Anna von Roenne Current news topics Handbook ‘Population dynamics in German Development Cooperation’ now online Population dynamics is the way in which populations change over time in terms of size, composition and geographical distribution. It is a cross-cutting issue which potentially affects all sectors, bringing with it both opportunities and challenges for sustainable development. This portal provides approaches and resources through which development cooperation can tackle them. More Mobile laboratories hold up in EAC’s pandemic simulation exercise As part of the largest cross-border field simulation exercise ever held in Africa the mobile laboratories for the EAC region that the German government funds through KfW had to operate under realistic emergency-response conditions for the first time. What did the exercise involve and how did the laboratories perform?   More Assessing outbreak response capacities in the EAC region After months of planning, almost 300 participants and observers took part in an ambitious cross-border Field Simulation Exercise on the Kenyan-Tanzanian border between 11th and 14th June 2019.  This exercise, convened by the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat , was designed to test capacities for disease outbreak prevention and responses at a time when the region is on high alert against Ebola.  More Making health training institutions gender-responsive A toolbox supports health pre-service training institutions in assessing their gender responsiveness, in developing gender action plans and in conducting basic gender trainings. It was developed and tested at training institutions in Liberia and contains many useful tools for health training organisations in low-resource settings. More From Spanish flu to Ebola Virus Disease In June 2019, the first Global Health Security Conference brought together more than 850 people from 65 countries in Sydney, Australia, to discuss the following questions: How can we achieve sustainable protection against cross-border health threats? By means of better-equipped laboratories? Training health workers? Financing vaccination campaigns?  More A video primer on India’s pathbreaking PM-JAY This 5-minute film sheds light on India’s health care reform and the country’s path towards Universal Health Coverage. Officials from India’s central and state governments as well as PM-JAY beneficiaries whose medical costs were covered and GIZ project staff share their perspective on the scheme and their experiences with it. More Connect with Healthy DEvelopments on social media:          Disclaimer    Site notice    © 2010-2019 Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development