Presentation to UHMLG Summer Residential 20th & 21st June 2013, Bristol

Shane Godbolt & Jean Shaw Contact info@phi-info.org.uk

Saving lives through health information

Partnerships in Health Information (Phi);

African leadership & partnership

Overview

• Phi 1992 – 2013• Phi achievements• Phi strategy 2013 - 2017

Can you help? Yes YOU can!

Phi 1992 – 2013 (1)

• Trustees; health professionals including librarians, academics & other NGO colleagues

• Programmes Officer 2006 -2010; full time grant funded post 2011 – volunteers until Jan 2012 Phi Africa Office

• Enabled expansion of activities & alignment with government level emphasis on partnerships

Phi 1992 – 2013 (2)

• Between 2006 – 2011 major funder Sir Halley Stewart Trust over £110,000

• Review of Phi under new Chair during 2011 to take account of major shifts

• Key issues emerged – fragmented parallel working– African leadership – Sustainability of Phi

Phi’s early achievements (1)• Essential need for Phi's activities were promoted in the Crisp

Report (2007)

• Developed broad portfolio of projects and partnership activities over 20yr period (funded by BMA, INASP, DelPHE, IFLA & others)

• Substantial experience in working with partners to support library service development in societies where local hierarchies and high rates of illiteracy are the norm

• Strong working relations with other organisations and groups working in the field of health information

Phi achievements (2)

• 2008 Workshop in Zambia

• 2009 PAHI Workshops working with IFLA

• 2010 MoU with THET

• 2011 Pan African partners – MoU AHILA & ITOCA

Our MoU Partners“We have collaborated with Phi

for many years and our partnership is

getting stronger”Nasra Gathoni, President, AHILA 2012

“Working with Phi we have been

able to complement our work and do

it better with the assistance of Phi

and its networks” Gracian Chimwaza, Executive Director, ITOCA

Phi achievements (3)

• Jan 2012 Phi Africa Office• Feb/March 2012 1st Commonwealth Professional

Fellowship (CPF)• Oct 2012 PAHI workshop at AHILA • Nov 2012 Zambia Workshop & Phi 20 th anniversary• Jan 2013 strategy• Feb/April CPFs• March 2013 poster accepted2nd African Library Summit, 2-5 July

Phi strategy 2013 – 2017 (1)

• Promote African leadership to improve the availability and quality of health information;

Capacity building for health information professionals & librarians

• Work in partnerships with others to strengthen health information systems in Africa

Facilitating health information partnerships & development projects

• Improve public access to health information (PAHI) in Africa

Sponsored PAHI workshop in three languages at AHILA 13 Cape Verde

Phi strategy 2013 – 2017 (2)• Need to address sustainability issues

• Phi is financially sound until end of 2014 after which?

• New Patron

• OU award

• Special Working Group & making an investment in fundraising

Phi strategy 2013 – 2017 The next 20years ?

• Building on the first 20yrs • Hosting of Phi’s Africa office and the AHILA

secretariat by ITOCA is paying dividends in enabling easy and speedy communication and collaborative working across all three partners

• Combined networks of the three provide a unique source of knowledge and expertise

Phi strategy 2013 – 2017 The next 20 years ?

• African leadership growing stronger • Spread of strong country chapters of AHILA; build

the regional organisation • Work more closely with THET links to raise profile

of potential contribution from health information specialists/ librarians

• Move from international development to co-development; shared learning and a shared future Nigel Crisp Turning the world upside down - the search for global health in the 21st century

Can you help? Yes YOU can!

If you would like to be more involved • Commonwealth Professional

Fellowships• Join Friends of Phi• Volunteer

Thanks to UHML for your support of Phi activities

Chipo Msengezi, Phi Africa Office, Centurion, Pretoria, S Africa

Where and who we are working with

Country focus:• Ethiopia• Uganda• Sierra Leone• Tanzania• Kenya• Zambia• Nigeria

Strategic collaborations:• THET (MoU)• INASP• HIFA2015 • AHILA• ITOCA (MoU)• IFLA• CILIP esp.HLG & ILIG

Cutting the celebration cake 20th anniversary

Nov 2012

Nov 2012

Chipo Msengezi, AHILA Coordinator/secretariat & Phi Africa Office

Began work January 2012 Some of the achievements • AHILA 13 October 2012• PAHI Workshop October 2012 • Zambia; Strengthening resource

management workshop November 2012