Health & Safety

If governments actively engage with the private sector in health, the pace of meeting health goals in Sub-Saharan Africa could be accelerated. By leveraging the “power of two,” referring to the public and private sectors, health services can be expanded and the financial burden on governments eased.

This innovative report, entitled Healthy Partnerships: How Governments Can Engage with the Private Sector to Improve Health in Africa, relies on in-depth data collection in 45 countries on the African continent to describe the current engagement, or lack thereof, between the public and private health sectors. It is the first report to look systematically at the relationship between the public and private health sectors in Africa providing information aimed at both parties on what improvements can be made and how.

This Good Practice Guidance recognizes the imperative to integrate health impact assessment with environmental and social impact assessments and provides the reader with management tools to achieve this.

Aimed at managers and health practitioners, this toolkit seeks to increase their understanding of the individual diseases.

This training manual focuses on SMEs and is designed to discredit myths about HIV/AIDS; foster understanding of its multiple impacts on businesses, employees, and communities; and impart skills to create and implement workplace programs. It is hoped that businesses will use this manual to establish and implement a Roadmap for Action to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS in their workplace, and by extension, in their communities.

Partnership Defined Quality is a methodology to improve the quality and accessibility of services with community involvement in defining, implementing, and monitoring the quality improvement process. This manual offers tools that can be used by project managers, health service managers, or facilitating agencies. It can also be used by health workers or community advocates, who would like to work to make a difference in the quality of health services available in their area. The tools in this manual can help the users to plan programs that will mobilize both health workers, and communities to work toward better service quality and availability.

The purpose of the Oil and Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting is to assist current and future oil and gas companies in improving the quality and consistency of voluntary reporting on their environmental, health and safety, social and economic performance.

This guideline applies to places of work associated with IFC projects. The place of work may be a building, an installation or an outdoor area. The guidelines also apply to temporary places of work. IFC project sponsors should ensure that suppliers, service providers, contractors, and subcontractors are required to follow comparable practices.

Education, training, demonstration and surveillance are the keys to improving Occupational safety and health (OSH) in smallscale mining. But this is well known. The purpose of this handbook is to make a practical contribution to this process.