Reading Resources

GENERIC EXERCISE OF POLICY ANALYSIS

• Health research prioritization at WHO: An overview of methodology and high level analysis of WHO led health research priority setting exercises
  
• Health Policy and the Delivery of Health Care: Case Study Continuation and Placing Policy Analysis in Context
  
• Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning
  
• A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis
  
• A Framework for Analyzing Public Policies: Practical Guide 
  
• A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis Third Edition Paperback – January 1, 2008 
  
• Exploring the Science of Complexity - Ideas and Implications for Development and Humanitarian Efforts 
  
• Realist Evaluation 
  

DEVELOPING A PROGRAMME THEORY

• A Comparison of Top-down and Bottom-up Community Development Interventions in Rural Mexico: Practical and Theoretical Implications for Community Development Programs
  
• Theory at a Glance- A Guide For Health Promotion Practice 
  
• Developing an Effective Evaluation Plan: Setting the course for effective program evaluation 
  
• Using Programme Theory to Evaluate Complicated and Complex Aspects of Interventions
  
• Theories of Health Behavior, HPR 8540: A Guide for Health Promotion Practice by the National Institutes of Health 
  
• Program theory and logic models 
  
• Why Theory Matters For Effective Health Promotion: A Briefing 
  
• An Evaluation Framework for Health Promotion: Theory, Quality and Effectiveness 
  

COMMUNITY LEVEL PREPARATIONS THROUGH MOBILISATION

• Community Mobilization Sector Approach 
  
• Prepare to Mobilize 
  
• Behaviour Change and Community Mobilisation for Skilled Care
  
• Overview on Community Mobilisation under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan  
  
• Approaching old problems in new ways: community mobilisation as a primary prevention strategy to combat violence against women 
  
• Practitioner’s Guide: Certifying Community Mobilisation 
  
• Measuring Community Mobilisation Processes – A Monitoring Framework for Community-Based Groups Under The HIVAIDS Programme in India
  
• How to Mobilise Communities for Improved Maternal and Newborn Health 
  
• Community Mobilisation for Empowerment – Toolkit 
  
•  A Practitioner’s Guide to Developmental Evaluation 
  
• Developmental Evaluation
• Helping Health Workers Learn  
  
• The ‘Most Significant Change’ (MSC) Technique - A Guide to Its Use 
  
• Bridging the Gap between Communities and Service Providers Developing Accountability through Community Mobilisation Approaches

COMMUNITY AWARENESS GENERATION

• Field Test Kit: An effective tool for awareness generation amongst the community to consume only safe drinking water in Ranchi, Jharkhand 
  
• Development and Implementation of Urban Sustainable Sanitation Awareness Raising Campaigns 
  
• Sensitization and awareness raising strategy
  
• From Users and Choosers to Makers and Shapers- Repositioning Participation in Social Policy 
  
• Bridging the Malnutrition Gap with Social Audits and Community Participation
  

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

• Community: Scottish Community Empowerment Action Plan- Celebrating Success Inspiring Change 
  
• Community empowerment in practice: Lessons from Communities First 
  
• Improving Health Outcomes through Community Empowerment: A Review of the Literature 
  
• Community Empowerment with Case Studies from the South-East Asia Region
  
• Has empowerment lost its power?
  
• Community Capacity Building for Health: A Critical Look at the Practical Implications of This Approach
  
• Community Empowerment Guidelines
  
• Measuring Empowerment in Practice- Structuring Analysis and Framing Indicators 
  
• Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable- Concepts and Methods