Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:45:48 -0400
From: "Bookstore,MSH" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Advance Africa Compendium for Best Practices is now on the Web!

ADVANCE AFRICA COMPENDIUM FOR BEST PRACTICES IS NOW ON THE WEB!


Advance Africa is pleased to announce that the Best Practices Compendium
for Family Planning/Reproductive Health Service Delivery is now accessible
through the internet! www.advanceafrica.org/bestpractices
<http://www.advanceafrica.org/bestpractices>


Advance Africa's approach to best practices is an innovative method of
providing technical assistance to managers at the operational level by
identifying and classifying program models according to their
effectiveness and replicability.  Users can search the Compendium for
appropriate practices to fill their needs.  Searches can be done by 7
topic areas: Region, Country, Technical area, Type of practice, Target
population, and Direct and Indirect impacts on the strategic objective.

This Database Compendium:
                * Includes best practices from numerous agencies;
                * Serves as an unbiased clearing house for gathering,
evaluating and distributing practices for global family planning programs;
                * Is reviewed by a panel of experts;
                * Provides a means to easily and efficiently collect and
disseminate practices in family planning/ reproductive health through the
Internet with a searchable database;
                * Identifies multiple practices that fill specific needs
and identifies those which have shown proven success;
                * Provides a clear distinction between untested, risky
interventions and those backed with experience and evidence - evidence of
the program's success as well as the amount of replication the program has
experienced;
                * Continues to be a work-in-progress and currently
contains a limited number of practices.  We continually add practices to
update the database.


Search the database by 7 topic areas.

Submit your practices on line. You may add a "best practice" you or your
organization has used.

Find the Compendium through the Advance Africa web site -
<http://www.advanceafrica.org/> or directly at
<http://www.advanceafrica.org/bestpractices> .

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