Community–university research partnerships (CURPs) comprise a diverse group of stakeholders who share differing capabilities and insights into the same issues, they are widely regarded as valuable to navigate best course action. Partnering co-researchers is core nurturing these partnerships, but it requires careful navigation complexities. The different insider outsider positionalities occupied...

Objective Driven by the need to bring malaria surveillance data from different sources together to support evidence-based decision making, we are conducting the “Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance” (SDIDS) project. This project aims to foster the integration of existing surveillance data to support evidence-based decision-making in malaria control and demonstrate a model applica...

This paper examines the role of the Adult Education Association of Zambia (AEAZ) in the Zambian national elections. Outlined in this paper are workshop topics, challenges encountered, and outcomes of the education campaign by the AEAZ in its crusade to inform voters of their rights and obligations. The six interrelated topics presented at various civic awareness campaigns were leadership ...

INTRODUCTION In South Africa, there are renewed efforts to strengthen primary health care and community health worker (CHW) programmes. This article examines three South African CHW programmes, a small local non-governmental organisation (NGO), a local satellite of a national NGO, and a government-initiated service, that provide a range of services from home-based care, childcare, and health pr...

The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID. Summary Community-based programs designed to discourage the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in Egypt started as early as the 1920s and have continued to the present day. However, the battle against FGC gained its greatest momentum after the 1994 United Nations International Confere...

Brief Summary: In this perspective, the authors argue that non-governmental organisations (NGO), such as Santé Diabète, can play a role in strengthening of health systems and improve leadership governance, service delivery workforce.

BACKGROUND The presence and influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the landscape of global health and development have dramatically increased over the past several decades. The distribution of NGO activity and the ways in which contextual factors influence the distribution of NGO activity across geographies merit study. This paper explores the distribution of NGO activity, using B...

This paper reflects on the appropriateness of the decision to close down a non-governmental organisation (NGO), state-aided tuberculosis (TB) hospital in the Free State in 2003. Henceforth hospitalisation of TB patients would take place at public district hospitals. A survey conducted late-2001/early-2002 revealed a more positive patient experience of hospitalisation for TB in public hospitals ...

This article examines the interplay between school factors and teacher job satisfaction that influences educational outcomes by comparing two Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) schools in Cambodia. This small-scale qualitative case study was conducted over a period of eight weeks in 2005 in two NGO schools in a suburb of Phnom Penh. The findings show that teacher job satisfaction is crucially ...