20 th amp 21st June 2013 Bristol Shane Godbolt amp Jean Shaw Contact infophiinfoorguk Saving lives through health information Partnerships in Health Information Phi ID: 812740
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Presentation to UHMLG Summer Residential 20th & 21st June 2013, BristolShane Godbolt & Jean Shaw Contact info@phi-info.org.uk
Saving lives through health information
Partnerships in Health Information (Phi);
African leadership & partnership
Slide2Overview
Phi 1992 – 2013Phi achievementsPhi strategy 2013 - 2017
Slide3Can you help? Yes YOU can!
Slide4Phi 1992 – 2013 (1)
Trustees; health professionals including librarians, academics & other NGO colleaguesProgrammes Officer 2006 -2010; full time grant funded post 2011 – volunteers until Jan 2012 Phi Africa Office Enabled expansion of activities & alignment with government level emphasis on partnerships
Slide5Phi 1992 – 2013 (2)Between 2006 – 2011 major funder Sir Halley Stewart Trust over £110,000 Review of Phi under new Chair during 2011 to take account of major shifts Key issues emerged fragmented parallel workingAfrican leadership Sustainability of Phi
Slide6Phi’s early achievements (1)
Essential need for Phi's activities were promoted in the Crisp Report (2007) Developed broad portfolio of projects and partnership activities over 20yr period (funded by BMA, INASP, DelPHE, IFLA & others)Substantial experience in working with partners to support library service development in societies where local hierarchies and high rates of illiteracy are the normStrong working relations with other organisations and groups working in the field of health information
Slide7Phi achievements (2)
2008 Workshop in Zambia2009 PAHI Workshops working with IFLA2010 MoU with THET 2011 Pan African partners – MoU AHILA & ITOCA
Slide8Our
MoU Partners“We have collaborated with Phi for many years and our partnership is getting stronger”Nasra Gathoni, President, AHILA 2012“Working with Phi we have been able to complement our work and do it better with the assistance of Phiand its networks” Gracian Chimwaza, Executive Director, ITOCA
Slide9Phi achievements (3)
Jan 2012 Phi Africa OfficeFeb/March 2012 1st Commonwealth Professional Fellowship (CPF)Oct 2012 PAHI workshop at AHILA Nov 2012 Zambia Workshop & Phi 20 th anniversaryJan 2013 strategyFeb/April CPFsMarch 2013 poster accepted2nd African Library Summit, 2-5 July
Slide10Phi
strategy 2013 – 2017 (1)Promote African leadership to improve the availability and quality of health information; Capacity building for health information professionals & librarians Work in partnerships with others to strengthen health information systems in Africa Facilitating health information partnerships & development projects Improve public access to health information (PAHI) in Africa
Sponsored PAHI workshop in three languages at AHILA 13 Cape Verde
Slide11Phi strategy 2013 – 2017 (2)
Need to address sustainability issuesPhi is financially sound until end of 2014 after which? New PatronOU awardSpecial Working Group & making an investment in fundraising
Slide12Phi strategy 2013 – 2017
The next 20years ? Building on the first 20yrs Hosting of Phi’s Africa office and the AHILA secretariat by ITOCA is paying dividends in enabling easy and speedy communication and collaborative working across all three partners Combined networks of the three provide a unique source of knowledge and expertise
Slide13Phi strategy 2013 – 2017
The next 20 years ? African leadership growing stronger Spread of strong country chapters of AHILA; build the regional organisation Work more closely with THET links to raise profile of potential contribution from health information specialists/ librarians Move from international development to co-development; shared learning and a shared future Nigel Crisp Turning the world upside down - the search for global health in the 21st century
Slide14Can you help? Yes
YOU can!If you would like to be more involved Commonwealth Professional FellowshipsJoin
Friends of PhiVolunteer
Slide15Thanks to UHML for your support of Phi activities
Chipo Msengezi, Phi Africa Office, Centurion, Pretoria, S Africa
Slide16Where and who we are working with
Country focus:EthiopiaUgandaSierra LeoneTanzaniaKenyaZambiaNigeriaStrategic collaborations:THET (MoU)INASPHIFA2015 AHILAITOCA (MoU)IFLACILIP esp.HLG & ILIG
Slide17Cutting the celebration cake 20
th anniversaryNov 2012Nov 2012
Slide18Chipo Msengezi,
AHILA Coordinator/secretariat & Phi Africa OfficeBegan work January 2012 Some of the achievements AHILA 13 October 2012PAHI Workshop October 2012 Zambia; Strengthening resource management workshop November 2012