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Capacity building publications and resources

Below you will find publications and resources related to capacity building.

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Capacity building for preventing injuries and violence: Strategic plan 2009-2013 (2009)

The strategic plan advances the rationale for increased emphasis and attention to capacity building in the field, and details what WHO expects to contribute over the coming years in the domains of human resources, institutional and infrastructural capacity development, and networks and partnerships.

Preventing violence and reducing its impact: How development agencies can help (2008)

This document makes the case that violence seriously hampers the development of low- and middle-income countries. It calls for increased attention to, and investment in, violence prevention by development agencies and identifies gaps in their current programming. It recommends a strengthened agenda to prevent violence and reduce its impact in low- and middle-income countries.

A WHO plan for burn prevention and care (2008)

Cover of the burns document

The plan outlines what WHO would like to promote in terms of: advocacy, policy, data and measurement, research, prevention, health-care services for victims and capacity building. It includes activities that WHO itself commits to undertake in the near future as well what the entire field of burn prevention and control should be accomplishing in the coming decade. The plan is intended to catalyse efforts to improve the scenario for burn prevention and care and so to significantly diminish the burden of death and suffering from burns globally.

MENTOR-VIP programme document (2007)

MENTOR-VIP is a global injury and violence prevention mentoring programme, focusing on the skills building aspect of the human resource capacity needed for injury and violence prevention and control. The overall programme description of MENTOR-VIP and the programme's guiding principles are summarized in this document.

TEACH-VIP users' manual (2005)

TEACH-VIP is a comprehensive injury prevention and control curriculum which has been developed through the efforts of WHO and a network of global injury prevention experts.

Guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence (2004)

Designed to capture detailed community-based data and information on both injury events and risk factors for injury, the Guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence are a companion to the earlier released Injury surveillance guidelines. The manual provides a relatively simple standard methodology for collecting data on injuries in the community.

Guidelines for essential trauma care (2004)

The guidelines seek to reduce the disparities in terms of trauma care between victims of trauma in high-income and low- and middle-income countries by establishing achievable and affordable standards for injury care worldwide. They set forth a list of essential trauma care services that are achievable in virtually every setting worldwide and lay out the various human and physical resources that are needed to assure such services.

Handbook for the documentation of interpersonal violence prevention programmes (2004)

The Handbook for the documentation of interpersonal violence prevention programmes describes how to systematically identify and document violence prevention programmes, including attributes such as their target populations, interventions, evaluation methods and evidence of effectiveness.

Guidelines for essential trauma care (2004)

The guidelines seek to reduce the disparities in terms of trauma care between victims of trauma in high-income and low- and middle-income countries by establishing achievable and affordable standards for injury care worldwide. They set forth a list of essential trauma care services that are achievable in virtually every setting worldwide and lay out the various human and physical resources that are needed to assure such services.

Guidelines for medico-legal care for victims of sexual violence (2003)

The guidelines aim to improve professional health services for all individuals who have been victims of sexual violence by providing health care workers with the knowledge and skills that are necessary for the management of victims; standards for the provision of both health care and forensic services to victims; and guidance on the establishment of health care and forensic services for victims.

Injury surveillance guidelines (2001)

The Injury surveillance guidelines seeks to help people design, establish and maintain good injury surveillance systems, intended to record information on individual cases of injury and produce statistical overview of an injury problem with all the relevant data being classified and coded according to agreed international standards. Reference: WHO/NMH/VIP/01.02; Languages: English

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