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Partnerships for ActionPartnerships for Action

Creating knowledge pathways to Improve reproductive health and close the knowledge to practice gap

Margaret Usher-Patel, WHO/RHR on behalf of:Partners of the Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative

November 2009

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COREExpandNetInstitute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown UniversityInternational Council onManagement of Population ProgramsJohn Snow Inc. Marie Stopes InternationalPartners in Population & Development Population CouncilPopulation Reference BureauProgram for Appropriate Technology in Health Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care, MakerereUniversity, UgandaUniversity Research Corp.White Ribbon Alliance

* WHO/RHR* USAID * UNFPA * EngenderHealth* FHI * IPPF * IntraHealth* JHPIEGO* JHU* MSH * Pathfinder International* Public Health Institute

• Academy for Educa-tional Development

• CARE• Centre for African Family

Studies, Kenya• Centre for Development &

Population Activities* Founding Members

IBP principles:•Harmonize approaches•Reduce duplication of effort •Expand the reach of individual members•Contribute complementary strengths •Power in partnership •Re-ignite interest and political will for reproductive health•Promote cost-sharing

29 Partners

IBP Partnership: Established as the IBP Consortium in 2003

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The Expanding Knowledge Base

• A vast array of reproductive health technologies

• A considerable body of knowledge about evidence- based practices

• A better understanding of people’s health-related behaviour

• An increasing awareness of the technical, social and economic determinants of quality and access

• An extensive collection of practical experience within countries that could be the basis for making programs work.

Research and programmatic initiatives over the past decades have led to:

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To effectively exchange and transfer knowledge, information, expertise, and experience in order to improve practice

Our Challenge

Overcome gap in transfer and application

of knowledge

Improve practice and

health

Unlock and share our knowledge and experience

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The IBP partners support many strategies to close the knowledge to practice gap

WHO/RHR with support from the IBP partners is creating andAdapting low resolution technology to create virtual knowledge toPractice pathways to:

• Innovate ways to improve access to and the use of research and resource materials

• Promote and support the sharing and exchange of knowledge and experience with individuals who are and who are not connected to the internet

• The documentation of knowledge and experience

• Promote continuous learning

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Promoting knowledge networking, collaborative learning and knowledge sharing across

countries

The IBP partners create virtual knowledge networks tosupport a process of learning that occurs when people who havea common interest in some subject orproblem collaborate to share their knowledge and ideas to find solutions and build innovations

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What is the IBP Knowledge Gateway?

• An electronic communication platform that connects people around the world through virtual networks and online discussions

• Developed by WHO/RHR and a number of partners in 2004

• Now the most popular electronic platform in the health and development sector

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What Does the Knowledge Gateway Offer?

• Largest electronic communication platform in the field of health and development

• Low-resolution platform, accessible from technically-challenged settings

• Simple to use and functions through e-mails linked to virtual work spaces known as communities

• Includes tools for planning and coordinating group efforts

• Automatically archives all emails and documents

• You can brand and customize the appearance of online communities

• Real time and virtual support to establish and maintain communities

• Functions on a cost-sharing basis

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Knowledge Gateway: Growth and Development Reaches 170,000 users in 199 Countries

Research and development

Launched in June with 300 users

• 5,000 users from 105 countries

• 96 communities of practice

• Global Alliance for Nursing & Midwifery Community launched

• Platform adopted by WHO and used as a corporate and partnership tool

• 12,053 users from 150 countries

•300 communities of practice

•7 global discussion forums

•Other agencies and partners begin using the platform, such as•UNHCR•UN Staff College•IDS•HUG

•14,578 from 199 countries belonging to 6,778 organizations

•379 communities of practice

•Dgroups – World Bank, DFID, CIDA + 22 agencies (with 100,000+ members) begins using the platform

+ Other Organizations

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IBP Knowledge Gateway: Virtual social networking and knowledge sharing, exchange

and transfer

The IBP supports other organizations and agencies toEstablish knowledge networks and launch and manage their own customized branded virtual communities of practice

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2006 Survey of IBP Knowledge Gateway Members

• 81% of participants reported that participation in the Knowledge Gateway improved their own knowledge and practices

• 82% had already used or planned to use resources or practices shared through the Knowledge Gateway in their own work

• 73% had shared e-mails received through the Knowledge Gateway with colleagues or coworkers

255 respondents

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Online Global Discussion ForumsKey objectives:

• Provide a venue for virtual collaboration among field- based practitioners and program managers

• Facilitate dialogue across professions and countries

• Strengthen exchange of knowledge and resource materials

• Strengthen existing partnerships and encourage new ones

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Global discussion - Why is access to quality reproductive health essential medicines so challenging

Over 400participants from 76 countries

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Global Discussion Forum Structure

• Length varies (1-6 weeks)

• Includes daily or weekly subtopics

• Includes panel of subject matter discussants/experts

• Often launched with a videoconference / webcast linking countries from different regions – HPVaccineNet webcast

accessed 762 times by 147 viewers in 36 countries

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Benefits of Participating in Knowledge Networks and virtual Communities of Practice

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Network and communicate with other inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary professionals worldwide

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Learn from and encourage each other

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Learn about resource materials and tools, promising and effective practices used by other organizations and countries

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Contribute your voice, your opinion to policy and practice dialogue

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Share problems and challenges

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Share your knowledge with someone who is not connected

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Creating Multiple Learning Opportunities: "Knowledge Pathways"

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Benefits of Creating New Knowledge Pathways

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Participate from any location at any time

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Makes creative use of cost effective methods of communication

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Exposes participants to effective tools, resources and practices

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Provides a venue for knowledge sharing, transfer and exchange

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Goes beyond a face to face meetingas it reaches a much wider audience than a face-to-face meeting can reach

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Voices from the Field: Dr. Charles Senessie, Dir/AEMRN

Sharing knowledge makes adifference

• The discussion forum has led to the development of an ongoing Cervical Screening project in Kitale Kenya.

• It is aimed at training the healthcare workers over the next two years on the latest techniques and case management.

IBP Knowledge Gateway supports K4PH establish knowledge networks like the Afro-European Medical Research Network (AEMRN)

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IBP Knowledge Gateway?

• Join the IBP Knowledge Gateway today.

•• Please visit Please visit •• http:/http:/myibpinitiative.orgmyibpinitiative.org

•• Thank youThank you

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