Organisational readiness and capacity building strategies of sporting organisations to promote health

Building environment to promote health

‘‘M ultidisciplinarity’’. ‘‘Integration’’. ‘‘Context’’. That these have become key terms in public health vocabulary and core features of the health systems can be seen in the multidisciplinary approach to biomedical research and clinical medicine and in the increasing interest in ‘‘alternative’’ medicine. What these changes have in common may be related to the concept of complexity and what co...

Capacity and readiness of civil society organisations to implement community case management of malaria in Kenya

INTRODUCTION Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) contribute to achieving development goals through advocacy, social mobilisation and provision of health services. CSO programming is a key component of Global Fund (GF) grants; however, CSOs face technical and governance capacity challenges in grant utilisation leading to missed opportunities for improving health at community level. Amref Health A...

Towards an Organisational Readiness Framework for Emerging Technologies: an Investigation of Antecedents for South African Organisations’ Readiness for Server Virtualisation

The lack of unifying frameworks to investigate emerging technologies and changing practices in organisations remains a major challenge to the Information Systems body of knowledge. This study developed and validated a new conceptual readiness framework NOIIE (an acronym for National e-readiness, Organisational preparedness, Industrial relationships, Internal resistance and External influence), ...

Individual Learning and Building Organisational Capacity for Development

Building capacity to use and undertake research in health organisations: a survey of training needs and priorities among staff

OBJECTIVES Efforts to improve healthcare and population health depend partly on the ability of health organisations to use research knowledge and participate in its production. We report the findings of a survey conducted to prioritise training needs among healthcare and public health staff, in relation to the production and implementation of research, across an applied health research collabor...