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 Impacts on the strategic objective. 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 <http://www.advanceafrica.org/> or directly at http://www.advanceafrica.org/bestpractices <http://www.advanceafrica.org/bestpractices> . 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 * 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. David Hock Senior Information Projects Coordinator Family Health International e-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> To unsubscribe from CANCHID send: unsubscribe CANCHID to: [log in to unmask] - for help see http://listserv.yorku.ca