[EQ] Virtual meeting: Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System

Virtual meetings: Meet the Author Series Country-Led Evaluation Systems On Line Interactive Meetings with Best Known Evaluators
Organized by Pan American Health Organization PAHO and  UNICEF CEE/CIS  When: Tuesday, 6 October 2009, at 10:00 -11:00AM Washington DC time Please check the local time in your own town: http://www.timeandd ate.com/worldclo ck/meeting. html Where In front of your personal or work computer anywhere in the world or at: PAHO HQ Room 612 525 23Rd  St. NW Washington DC 20037 Link to participants – Via Internet through Elluminate: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=1110&password=M.953FDA5344526E966FD944A7568E21   The event is free and open to interested people. You may attend virtually from your personal or work computer anywhere in the world. In addition to watching live presentations, you will have the option to ask questions and provide comments. This conference will enable the sharing of good practices and lessons learned. Global-level speakers will contribute with international perspectives.
Agenda
10:00- 10:05am	Welcome Rosina Salerno, PAHO  Internal Oversight and Evaluation Services
10:05 – 10:10am	Introduction and Key Questions Marco Segone, Senior Evaluation Specialist, Systemic management, UNICEF Evaluation Office, and former IOCE Vice President
Presenters
10:10 – 10:20am	Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System Ray Rist, President, IDEAS
10:20 – 10:30am	Designing and Building a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System Jody Zall Kusek, Advisor, Results and Strategy Human Development Network, the World Bank
10:30 – 10:55am	Q&A from Participants Rosina Salerno, PAHO Internal Oversight and Evaluation Services
10:55 – 11:00am	Closing Remarks Marco Segone, Senior Evaluation Specialist, Systemic management, UNICEF Evaluation Office, and former IOCE Vice President
Why? Monitoring and evaluation has a strategic role to play in informing policy-making processes. The aim is to improve relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of policy reforms. Why then is monitoring and evaluation not playing its role to its full potential? What are the factors, in addition to the evidence, influencing the policy-making process and outcome? How can the uptake of evidence in policy-making be increased?   Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems may enhance evidence-based policy-making by ensuring national monitoring and evaluation systems are owned and led by the concerned countries. This facilitates the availability of evidence relevant to country-specific data needs to monitor policy reforms and national development goals, whilst at the same time, ensuring technical rigour through monitoring and evaluation capacity development.    This conference is part of the program “Meet the Author” where selected authors of evaluation books will be available to respond to your questions. The program was planned together with UNICEF and includes the participation of two major Global Evaluation Networks: IDEAS and IOCE. The first virtual meeting with the editor of the UNICEF book, “Country-led monitoring and evaluation systems” was held in February 2009, and drew an audience of 110 participants from all over the world. Building on the consensus for the initiative, PAHO, together with UNICEF, designed this program to enable meet the authors of evaluation books, sharing with them good practices and lessons learned on evaluation with a special attention to national and local M&E systems.
Contact Information:   Rosina Salerno, PAHO Internal Oversight and Evaluation Services Pan American Health Organization PAHO - Washington D.C. salernor@paho. org, Tel. (202) 974-3940  PAHO Website www.paho.org    Twitter: http://twitter.com/eqpaho

 

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[EQ] The Poor Pay More - Poverty's High Cost to Health

The Poor Pay More - Poverty’s High Cost to Health

George A. Kaplan, Ph.D. Thomas Francis Collegiate Emeritus Professor of Public Health
Founder Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health - University of Michigan
September 2009

Available online as PDF file [39p.] at:
http://treefortremotecontrol.com/users/spotlight_on_poverty/RelatedFiles/e995cd7a-8416-4b89-983a-4f39fbf6de39.pdf

“….describes factors that can result in poor health for low-income people, including neighborhood safety, housing quality and access to nutritious food.
The report examines policies for addressing these problems such as increasing the minimum wage, investing in early childhood education and increasing aid to jobless workers. This report was issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in conjunction with Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity.

“…..This report describes many of the ways in which being poor is bad for one’s health and points to policies that have the potential for restoring the prospect of good health to the lives of the poor. We present compelling evidence that poverty has an impact on not just the body politic but the body corporeal as well—that being poor leaves a broad footprint on the health of individuals….”

Content:

- Introduction

- The Social Determinants of Health

- Finding Solutions

- Conclusion

 

 - End Notes

 - Figure References

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Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health www.sph.umich.edu/cseph University of Michigan

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[EQ] Natural and unnatural synergies: climate change policy and health equity

Natural and unnatural synergies: climate change policy and health equity

Sarah Catherine Walpole ^a, Kumanan Rasanathan ^a & Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum ^b
a. Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization.
b. Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization -  doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.067116
Volume 87, Number 10, October 2009, 733-804

Available online at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/10/09-067116/en/index.html

“…….Climate change and health inequities represent two of the greatest challenges to human development in the 21st century. As the Copenhagen summit on climate change planned for December 2009 approaches, there are opportunities to use the political momentum of climate change to promote health equity.

The broad-ranging policies required to address climate change have both positive and negative implications for health and health equity.^1,2 Similarly, interventions to reduce health gaps will not necessarily help stabilize the climate. Poorly designed policies could easily undermine both climate and health equity goals, and reduce public support for their implementation.

This paper reviews the potential tensions between climate stabilization and improving health equity and discusses how these might be resolved…..”

 

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