A status study by Jan Fox on Livelihoods and Human Security in Puntland and Jubaland – another thematic study used to inform the baseline survey for Diakonia’s Somalia Rights Programme 2015-2018. The assessment explores the status of the livelihood activities and opportunities available in Puntland and Jubaland, and the current degree of adherence to existing peace agreements. It also provides an analysis of land and property rights in the two administrations, and how they affect livelihoods and human security in both regions.

A status study by Trine Barnoe on child labour prevention, juvenile justice, child soldier rehabilitation and the state of human rights in Puntland and Jubaland – another of the five thematic studies used to inform iDC’s baseline survey for Diakonia’s Somalia Rights Programme 2015-2018.

A status study by Christine Kamau on peace building in Puntland and Jubaland – another of the five thematic studies used to inform IDC’s baseline survey for Diakonia’s Somalia Rights Programme 2015-2018. Diakonia outlined the overall goal of the programme as: ‘Women and men of all ages in Puntland and Jubaland should be able to participate in the development of their societies in a manner in which their rights are respected, they are able to earn a living and can withstand future crises’.

A status study by Abdulkadir Sh. Mohamoud Salah on taxation, budgeting, land and property rights in Puntland and Jubaland – another of the five thematic studies informing IDC’s baseline survey for Diakonia’s Somalia Rights Programme 2015-2018. The study falls under the theme of Governance and Accountability, one the three thematic areas addressed by the programme, including human rights and resilience and human security.

Final report of a joint Tana/iDC assignment involving the design and implementation of the DFID-funded “Making Gatekeepers Accountable” project. The aim of the project has been to improve the accountability of Mogadishu IDP camp ‘Gatekeepers’, and thereby increase the protection of IDPs through training of selected Gatekeepers, increased transparency, as well as a formal approval process for Gatekeepers and their settlements.

A manual for project managers and supervisors on Project Cycle Management (PCM) – an extension of the Logical Framework Approach (LFA) – produced by John Fox and Ruth Mwikali. The manual presents a framework for a more complete project cycle, involving monitoring and reporting on, as well as identifying and formulating projects.

A Participatory Journey was born from the experiences gained by the Arid Lands Resource Management Project (ALRMP) in northeastern Kenya, as well as Intermedia’s other experiences with pastoralist people involved in the UNOPS programmes in Somalia. The publication provides a step-by-step ‘journey’ for trainers who are initiating and implementing participatory development among pastoralist communities. It seeks to provide answers to the most common questions posed by practitioners of participatory methods: What is the purpose of the journey? Where does it start? Which route should we take? What tools will we need? How will we know when we have reached our destination?

This catalogue is about M&E – on ways of knowing where we are, where we have been – in order to learn lessons that will help us get to where we want to be. It is intended, primarily, for organisations working in the field of human rights and social justice, but it should be of interest to any organisation or individual who wishes to explore a variety of methods that can be used in M&E.

Managing a Dispensary is a manual that has been developed for the committee members who oversee, and the nurses who work in, primary health care centres. It is based on the experience of a pilot project in the Kwale District on the coast of Kenya that focused on the strengthening of the committees that were established to share in the management of the local dispensaries. Its aim is to communicate the lessons that came out of that project, so that they can be applied in other countries and places where there is the same concern to empower health centre committees, to develop the management capacities of the nursing staff, and to improve the quality of primary health care.

In 1997 and in the Coast Province of Kenya the Aga Khan Health Services, working in close collaboration with the Kenya Ministry of Health, began the Kwale Health Systems Strengthening Project (KHSSP), which aimed to improve the quality of health care at the dispensary level. This first of a series of policy briefs focuses on one of the most significant outcomes of that project the development of an effective dispensary health management information system. These briefs are primarily intended for directors and managers of community-based health care programmes, whether working within ministries of health, donor agencies or non-government organisations.

This is the third of a series of ‘policy briefs’ produced by the Community Health Department of the Aga Khan Health Service in Kenya. It focuses on what happened in the target areas of the Kisumu Primary Health Care Project. This was a pioneering PHC project that ran from 1983 to 1997 in Kisumu District, in the west of Kenya and beside Lake Victoria. The brief is based on a review of reports – and on a visit made to some of the Kisumu PHC target areas in December 2002 by Dr Salim Sohani, Head of the Community Health Department, AKHS, Kenya, and John Fox, Managing Director of IntermediaNCG, Kenya. Their main concern was to find out what kind of health care and health education were being promoted five years after the Kisumu PHC project had ended.

This is the fourth of a series of ‘policy briefs’ produced by the Community Health Department of the Aga Khan Health Service in Kenya. It focuses on a number of issues related to the management of health facilities: the rational for decentralisation of health services, the role of the community in the management of health facilities, the membership of local management committees, selection criteria – and, finally, the involvement of local politicians.

The Health Management Information System (HMIS) in Kwale District, Coast Province was Kenya’s first computerised district-level HMIS. A joint effort of the Ministry of Health and the Community Health Department of the Aga Khan Health Service, Kenya, the system uses simple, user-friendly software developed by Data Dynamics Limited to collect and analyse data from local health facilities. This publication is the fifth in a series of policy briefs prepared by the Community Health Department of the Aga Khan Health Service, and it deals with key issues related to developing and implementing an HMIS.