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What a resource centre can do
A checklist:
1. Make information accessible
- collect and organise materials
- provide access to materials that are up-to-date and relevant
to users
- provide a pleasant environment for learning and training.
2.Encourage the use of information
- assist users to find relevant information and suggest how
they can use it in their work
- provide materials to support training and health promotion
- provide information to those responsible for planning, managing
and implementing health programmes, including district health
management teams and community groups
- produce information packs and resource lists
- organise participatory workshops that use materials as tools
for problem-solving
- work with teachers and trainers to identify resource materials
for training activities
- offer an information and enquiry service
- develop ways to reach potential users.
3. Produce materials
- work with health teams and community groups to document their
experience
- adapt, translate and produce health learning materials.
4. Strengthen links with other organisations
- list local, national, regional and international organisations
working in health and related fields
- develop contacts between organisations working in similar
fields, such as the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Water
and Sanitation, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community
organisations
- identify other sources of information.
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