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Tara Sullivan, INFO
Overview of the HIPNet M&E Guide: The development of the guide has been a collaborative process. An M&E subcommittee was formed to work on the guide; this subcommittee now consists of Barbara Timmons, Molly Strachan, and Tara Sullivan. Ward Reinhart has provided substantial editorial input. The subcommittee wanted to identify indicators that are useful in monitoring information products. HIPNet members were asked for the indicators that they used and over 50 were collected. The subcommittee has refined that indicator list to 26. The guide is designed to provide a menu of indicators from which organizations can choose ones that are most relevant to their work. The indicators have been grouped into four categories; 1) reach 2) usefulness 3) use and 4) collaboration and capacity building.
Last HIPNet Meeting: Indicators were ranked from 1 to 5; 1 being the most highly relevant to your organization’s work and 5 being not relevant to your organization’s work. The lowest (#s 7, 15-19)and highest (#s1, 3, 4, 20-22) ranked indicators were discussed,. It is clear that some indicators apply to only a few HIPNet organizations. An appendix may be included in the final M&E Guide that summarizes this discussion.
Next Steps: The M&E Guide is close to being finished. It will then be reviewed by USAID and M&E technical experts. Contact Tara Sullivan if you have any questions or comments and send examples of indicators used by your organization to Tara (TSULLIVA@jhuccp.org). Please send all comments to Tara Sullivan (tsulliva@jhuccp.org) by January 15th 2007. Also let Tara know if you would like your CTO to receive a copy of the draft for comments.
Sandra Jordan, USAID
Joanne Giordano is leaving USAID. Joe Fredericks will be taking over branding. He is getting a team together now and no lag time on the branding and marking plans is expected. The branding and tag line is expected to remain as is during Randall Tobias’ administration, although there has been some discussion of developing a brand for all US foreign assistance – but that would be in the future. For questions on branding, look in the written guidelines or contact Sandra Jordan (sjordan@usaid.gov). Sandra can also send branding examples if needed. There will be a hands-on session for HIPNet members in late January to work developing branding and marking plans – which are required for all new contracts and cooperative agreements.
WorldView - http://worldviewmagazine.com - Sandra Jordan distributed copies of the Fall issue at the meeting. You can also go online to check out this special issue of Worldview on reproductive health. In addition to an article by Sandra, it also includes articles by Jane Goodall and others. I still have a few print copies. If you would like one, let me (Peggy) know.
Barbara Timmons, MSH
Barbara presented on “Copyright Basics and Their Application for USAID Cooperating Agencies”. She gave a brief history of copyright, what is copyrightable, and the rights of copyright holders as well as clauses in USAID contracts and contract compliance. Barbara presented options for sharing including publishing in open access journals such as BioMed Central, allowing photocopies within certain guidelines (e.g. “for training purposes”), and Creative Commons. Creative Commons is a nonprofit that makes it easier for creators to both share and protect their work. She also discussed the benefits of managing and sharing copyright.
Other Ideas for Providing Better Access to Your Materials (Google Books, Google Scholar, HINARI, DOI), Peggy D’Adamo, INFO
Google Books: A free service to which you can add your organization’s books. An ISBN number is needed and you can check statistics on how many times users have accessed to your book. See https://books.google.com/partner/. Need an ISBN number: http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp.
Google Scholar: A free service to which you can add your organization’s reports and journals. You can not check statistics on this site but you can track citations of your publications in much the same way that you can on on Science Citation Index or Social Science Citation Index. See http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/publishers.html.
HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative): HINARI is a program set up by WHO and major publishers which enables certain developing country organizations to gain access to the full text of a large collection of biomedical and health literature. Your organization can be listed as a publisher. Email Peggy D’Adamo (mdadamo@jhuccp.org) if you’re interested and she will provide contact information.
DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) Numbers: A DOI is a unique identifier that is assigned to any form of intellectual property (e.g. reports, images, audio items, etc.). DOI® names are assigned to any entity for use on digital networks. They are used to provide current information, including where they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet. Information about a digital object may change over time, including where to find it, but its DOI name will not change (from http://doi.org/). It’s a great way to make sure that people surfing the web will also be able to find your publications.
David Alexander, Photoshare
It is important for every organization to develop its own photography policy. Such a policy should include an informed consent document which can be signed by photography subjects, a guide for photographers, terms of use (crediting and captions), and copyright information (who owns the photos taken in the field? The photographer? The organization?). There is no reason not to develop a photo policy; even a lenient one is better than none. On the HIPNet web site you can find sample photo policies, release forms and guidelines for when photographers need to obtain consent for photos.
Photo Links:
Peggy D’Adamo, INFO
Fourteen people responded to the HIPNet Shipping Survey, with eight reporting problems getting materials delivered to their clients. Three reported having problems in Peru. Although there are no easy solutions to shipping problems, one lesson is to leave plenty of time for the package to arrive and work closely with the shipping company. Read the survey results.
Final Figures for 2006 HIPNet Library Mailings
In September 2006, a third mailing of materials to libraries took place. INFO collected, sorted and shipped English, French, and Spanish materials to 196 English, 61 French, and 176 Spanish libraries in 60 countries. TOTAL SAVINGS: $53,283.23. The cost of labor, covered by the INFO project, and factored into the savings, came to $900 of the total cost of this mailing. -->Additional stats
If you would like a copy of the library mailing list, or would like to add libraries to the list, contact Peggy D’Adamo (mdadamo@jhuccp.org) for an updated copy.
We would like to expand this list for next year's maililng. If you have libraries you can add, suggestions for places to find library contacts or would like to see the list, contact me and I'll send it to you.
Neha Suchak, PSP-One
The PSP-One Project hired a company called Icohere to design and develop an on-line conference site for The Role of the Private Sector in Expanding Health Services, Quality, and Equity in Developing Countries. The conference included narrated PowerPoint presentations given by representatives from leading organizations, live discussion sessions, question and answer sections and much more. These presentations were filmed during the Global Health Council event in May 2006. The online site enabled participants to log online 24 hours a day to participate (http://icohere-presentations.com/assist/PSP1/PSHEconference.htm). The conference was successful and reached more than 400 participants from over 60 countries.
Please contact Neha Suchak for any questions: neha_suchak@abtassoc.com
Other company that provide services similar to Icohere: There are certainly many online meeting options available to organizations in this day and age. Melissa May suggested another vendor people could consider for training and other types of meetings. She has worked with companies like this one and her former boss is using Fugu - www.fugu.com
Monica Marini, IRH
Monica gave a short presentation on the new IRH products related to the Standard Days Method. Download the presentation-->.
List of new publications from Population Council
Peggy D’Adamo, INFO
Peggy D’Adamo reported that INFO had re-organized, reformatted and update the HIPNet lists of Listserves. It will be circulated via the HIPNet listserve. If you have something add, please get in touch with Peggy, Laura Raney or Neha Suchak.
HIPNet list of listserves, e-mail lists, websites for promotion - if you would like to have an electronic copy of the most recent version, Peggy can send that to you as well.
March 7th 2007
Laura Raney, Population Council – lraney@pcdc.org
Sherry Hutchinson, Horizons/Population Council – shutchinson@pcdc.org
Michael Klitsch, EngenderHealth, mklitsch@engenderhealth.org
Barbara Timmons, MSH, btimmons@msh.org
Anton Zuiker, Measure Evaluation, zuiker@unc.edu
Heather Valli, IntraHealth, hvalli@intrahealth.org
Lori Merritt, Constella Futures, lmerritt@constellagroup.com
Sonja Schmidt, Constella Futures, sschmidt@constellagroup.com
Jenny Wilder, Pathfinder International, jwilder@pathfind.org
Elizabeth Ransom, Pathfinder International, eransom@esdproj.org
Megan O’Brien, JHU/CCP INFO, mlobrien@jhsph.edu
Alisha Horowitz, JHPIEGO, ahorowitz@jhpiego.net
Dana Lewison, JHPIEGO, dlewison@jhpiego.net
Laura Boyle, AED, lboyle@aed.org
Monica Marini, IRH, marinim@georgetown.edu
Marcia MacNeil, Measure DHS, marcia.macneil@orcmacro.com
Sandra Kalscheur, AED, skalscheur@aed.org
Christine Chumbler, CORE Group, cchumble@worldvision.org
Kathleen Shears, FHI, kshears@fhi.org
Sandra Jordan, USAID, sjordan@usaid.gov
Peggy Tipton, CARE, mtipton@care.org
Luis Ortiz Echevarria, CARE, lortiz@care.org
Jaime Stewart, CARE, stewart@care.org
Tina Flores, Global Health Council, tflores@globalhealth.org
Lani Marquez, URC/Quality Assurance Project, lmarquez@urc-chs.com
Jenn Eramo, JSI and World Ed, jeramo@worlded.org
Sara Adkins-Blanch, PRB, saraab@prb.org
Disclaimer: The information provided on this web site is not official U.S. Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. Government.