6 research outputs found
Enhancing access to health information in Africa: A librarian\u27s perspective
No full textIn recent years, tremendous progress has been made toward providing health information in Africa, in part because of technological advancements. Nevertheless, ensuring that information is accessible, comprehensible, and usable remains problematic, and there remain needs in many settings to address issues such as computer skills, literacy, and the infrastructure to access information. To determine how librarians might play a more strategic role in meeting information needs of health professionals in Africa, the author reviewed key components of information systems pertinent to knowledge management for the health sector, including access to global online resources, capacity to use computer technology for information retrieval, information literacy, and the potential for professional networks to play a role in improving access to and use of information. The author concluded that, in regions that lack adequate information systems, librarians could apply their knowledge and skills to facilitate access and use by information seekers. Ensuring access to and use of health information can also be achieved by engaging organizations and associations working to enhance access to health information, such as the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa. These groups can provide assistance through training, dissemination, information repackaging, and other approaches known to improve information literacy
Strengthening health information librarianship in Africa through associations and partnerships: personal reflections in memory of Shane Godbolt
No full textThis paper describes the significant roles Shane Godbolt played in promoting partnerships and collaborations and strengthening the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA). It presents the personal reflections of each author about Shane, the part she played in their professional and personal lives as well as Shane\u27s vital support for AHILA and AHILA members during her lifetime
The Way to School by R. McCarney
No full textMcCarney, Rosemary. The Way to School. Toronto: Second Story Press, 2015. PrintThe book is able to show that different communities have very distinct experiences when going to school and a number of them not too pleasant. For example, children are shown wading through a river, climbing ladders up a river bank, riding a zip-line and crossing a single-wire bridge. Despite all these differences the book shows how much children love being in school.With clear and high quality photos, the book is able to demonstrate the different experiences. The photos have captured different sceneries and landscapes that ably demonstrate the different worlds the children come from. The photos add a lot of wonderful content to the story. As the photos demonstrate different communities it is therefore easy for children from various communities to relate with the story as well as appreciate the differences.This book shows both boys and girls going to school. Education of girls is one of author Rosemary McCarney’s goals. McCarney leads Plan International Canada and helped found the “Because I am a Girl” initiative. This is book is recommended for public libraries and children’s rooms everywhere.Highly recommended: 4 stars out of 4Reviewer: Nasra GathoniNasra is a Health Sciences Librarian at the Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya. Nasra is an avid book reader, a passion she nurtured from her childhood and believes in the necessity of children reading from a tender age
The Way to School by R. McCarney
No full textThe book is able to show that different communities have very distinct experiences when going to school and a number of them not too pleasant. For example, children are shown wading through a river, climbing ladders up a river bank, riding a zip-line and crossing a single-wire bridge. Despite all these differences the book shows how much children love being in school.
With clear and high quality photos, the book is able to demonstrate the different experiences. The photos have captured different sceneries and landscapes that ably demonstrate the different worlds the children come from. The photos add a lot of wonderful content to the story. As the photos demonstrate different communities it is therefore easy for children from various communities to relate with the story as well as appreciate the differences.
This book shows both boys and girls going to school. Education of girls is one of author Rosemary McCarney’s goals. McCarney leads Plan International Canada and helped found the “Because I am a Girl” initiative
The raise of eco-label coffee: a comparative study of their effects on Costa Rican and Kenyan cooperative coffee sector
No full textSince the last coffee crisis of early 2000s, development of specialty coffee, and especially eco-friendly labelled coffee, has been raising rapidly. Although effect on producers and global relationship has been documented, the dynamic of certification adoption and its comprehensive effects on coffee sectors in producing countries are still poorly documented. The poster presents a comparative study of the dynamic of development of Eco-labels in two high quality Arabica coffee producing countries, Costa Rica and Kenya. Using available secondary data and original data's derives from stakeholders comprehensive interviews, we show that the different pace and magnitude of the adoption of the certification schemes between this two countries depended on pre-existing institutional environment, governance and balance of power in the commodity chain and that the development of certification schemes tended to modify both structure and functioning of the commodity chains and contribute to gradual evolution of balance of power
CAFNET Local knowledge studies of trees in coffee systems in East Africa
No full textCAFNET research has elicited local agro-ecological knowledge from coffee growing areas within the vicinity of forest reserves in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. Knowledge was acquired from over 200 farmers in a stratified purposive sample, using a knowledge based systems approach. Ranking and phenology survey Building on the local knowledge studies and on-farm tree inventories, we designed a ranking and phenology survey to be applied across the 100 farms in the three counties to test consistency of farmer knowledge about physical attributes and phenology of trees found in coffee plots and along coffee plot boundaries
