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Presentation to UHMLG Summer Residential 20 th & 21st June 2013, Bristol

Saving lives through health information . Partnerships in Health Information (Phi); African leadership & partnership . Presentation to UHMLG Summer Residential 20 th & 21st June 2013, Bristol Shane Godbolt & Jean Shaw Contact info@phi-info.org.uk. Overview. Phi 1992 – 2013

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  1. Saving lives through health information Partnerships in Health Information (Phi); African leadership & partnership Presentation to UHMLG Summer Residential20th & 21st June 2013, Bristol Shane Godbolt & Jean Shaw Contact info@phi-info.org.uk

  2. Overview • Phi 1992 – 2013 • Phi achievements • Phi strategy 2013 - 2017

  3. Can you help? Yes YOU can!

  4. Phi 1992 – 2013 (1) • Trustees; health professionals including librarians, academics & other NGO colleagues • Programmes 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

  5. Phi 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 working • African leadership • Sustainability of Phi

  6. Phi’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 norm • Strong working relations with other organisations and groups working in the field of health information

  7. Phi achievements (2) • 2008 Workshop in Zambia • 2009 PAHI Workshops working with IFLA • 2010 MoU with THET • 2011 Pan African partners – MoU AHILA & ITOCA

  8. Our 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

  9. Phi achievements (3) • Jan 2012 Phi Africa Office • Feb/March 2012 1st Commonwealth Professional Fellowship (CPF) • Oct 2012 PAHI workshop at AHILA • Nov 2012 Zambia Workshop & Phi 20 th anniversary • Jan 2013 strategy • Feb/April CPFs • March 2013 poster accepted 2nd African Library Summit, 2-5 July

  10. Phi 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

  11. Phi strategy 2013 – 2017 (2) • Need to address sustainability issues • Phi is financially sound until end of 2014 after which? • New Patron • OU award • Special Working Group & making an investment in fundraising

  12. Phi 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

  13. Phi 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

  14. Can you help? Yes YOU can! • If you would like to be more involved  • Commonwealth Professional Fellowships • Join Friends of Phi • Volunteer

  15. Thanks to UHML for your support of Phi activitiesChipo Msengezi, Phi Africa Office, Centurion, Pretoria, S Africa

  16. Where and who we are working with Country focus: • Ethiopia • Uganda • Sierra Leone • Tanzania • Kenya • Zambia • Nigeria Strategic collaborations: • THET (MoU) • INASP • HIFA2015 • AHILA • ITOCA (MoU) • IFLA • CILIP esp.HLG & ILIG

  17. Cutting the celebration cake 20th anniversary Nov 2012 Nov 2012

  18. Chipo Msengezi, AHILA Coordinator/secretariat & Phi Africa Office Began work January 2012 Some of the achievements • AHILA 13 October 2012 • PAHI Workshop October 2012 • Zambia; Strengthening resource management workshop November 2012

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