Websites and gateways

The Communication Initiative - Health window
www.comminit.com/healthcomm/
Direct access to information related to health and health communication on the Communication Initiative (CI) site. Exchange is a partner in CI.

Source International Information Support Centre
www.asksource.info
Access to an extensive range of health and disability communication materials, many of which are produced in developing countries and are not available elsewhere. Includes a substantial collection of project evaluation reports and methodological resources relating to participatory evaluation. Exchange is a partner in Source.

Health e Communication
www.comminit.com/healthecomm
On-line resource designed to grow and evolve as practitioners from around the world submit and review case studies, planning models, research and evaluation documents, and lectures and speeches. Produced by Health Communication Partnership (HCP) and The Communication Initiative.

The ELDIS Development Gateway
www.eldis.org
Part of the website of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) which links to a large collection of evaluation reports (select ‘project evaluation reports’ in the drop down menu on the home page) and to a range of resources on participatory monitoring and evaluation (select Participatory M&E from menu).

Performance Assessment Resource Centre (PARC)
www.parcinfo.org/default.asp
Links to a range of project evaluations and agency evaluation reports in the field of international development. Also includes guidelines on different areas of evaluation practice and extensive links to evaluation resources and organisations.

INASP Health Links
www.inasp.info/links/health/
Gateway to selected websites of special interest to health professionals, medical library communities, publishers, and NGOs, with an emphasis on material relevant to users in developing and transitional countries. Includes general resources (search engines, gateways, publications and clinical trials databases, research networks, glossaries, disease classifications, full-text e-books, image collections, journals, newsletters, medical education resources, news, email lists, and WHO sites) and resources for library and publishing support, and the use of information communication technologies.

Health Communication Partnership
www.hcpartnership.org/index.php
An international resource for health professionals with samples of pamphlets, posters, videos, and many other media and materials designed to promote public health.

Communication Impact
www.jhuccp.org/pubs/ci/index.shtml
Two-page research briefings on the impact of Johns Hopkins communication programmes and innovations in project work.

Communication in Global Population, Health, and Nutrition Bibliography (USAID)
www.comminit.com/commbiblio/sld-1860.html
A current awareness bibliography which is being compiled on the Communication Initiative website. Draws on a variety of major online databases including MEDLINE, Popline, ERIC, Sociological Abstracts, USAID's database, INASP, Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts, and Social SciSearch.

UNAIDS Best Practice Collection
www.unaids.org/EN/resources/publications/ best+practice+collection.asp
Defining best practice as: ‘the continuous process of learning, feedback, reflection and analysis of what works (or what does not work) and why’, this is a searchable collection of best practice materials on about 50 topics relating to HIV and AIDS. Includes overviews of the problems, best practice responses, accounts of key materials and case studies.

Horizons Global operations research on HIV/AIDS/STI care and prevention
www.popcouncil.org/horizons/horizons.html
Research summaries, updates of activities, reports and publications relating to the work of a range of organisations involved in this global operations research. Also includes a library of questionnaires and research instruments, supplemented with coverage of related issues of methodology and ethics atwww.popcouncil.org/horizons/aidsquest/ description.html
 
ACACIA Initiative
www.idrc.ca/acacia/stcat.htm
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) initiative looking at the impact and appropriate strategies for using ICTs in four African countries: Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda. Links to a database of reports and resources, including project evaluations.

Media/Material Clearinghouse (M/MC) Health Communcation Materials Database
www.hcpartnership.org/mmc/mmc_search.php
Online database of international health education materials collected by Media/Material Clearinghouse. Topics include Reproductive health, Maternal and child health, HIV and AIDS and STDs, Development and population.