Pamoja Communications is excited to be part of a new research project that will guide health services for marginalised urban communities in how to respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change. Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and The George Institute for Global Health India (TGI) will work alongside SDI-Kenya and […]
We are delighted to announce Pamoja Communications have been working with the Monitoring & Action for Gender & Equity project (MAGE) to develop their brand identity and website. MAGE is a partnership between Johns Hopkins University and the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), a multi-stakeholder partnership housed at the World Bank […]
Pamoja is managing the ongoing communications for the Gender and Covid-19 Project. In early February 2020 a small group of academics from public health, international relations, public policy, and development economics saw the need to better understand and address the gendered effects of COVID-19 and government responses to the outbreak, having previously examined the intersection […]
Pamoja is working with the ReBUILD for Resilience Consortium, which is funded by the UK Government, managing their communications. ReBUILD for Resilience is an international consortium of organisations from Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal, Sierra Leone and the UK. They have expertise across all health systems pillars and in a wide range of disciplines including public health, epidemiology, […]
As a newly funded DFID Research Programme Consortium (RPC) CHORUS required both a brand and an online presence that would enable target audiences for their work to recognise and access further information on urban health. Pamoja worked with CHORUS members to create a brand and a logo that accurately represents their work and values and […]
In the throes of planning this Liverpool symposium – on the role of research in the creation and adoption of vaccines – we could never have anticipated how our worlds would shift on their axes due to COVID-19. This led us to pivot to incorporate a focus on the pandemic and to switch to a […]
Most health systems researchers want to make a positive change. Whether their aims relate to issues such as efficiency, equity, or functionality, they would like to see the evidence that they generate used in decision making. While efforts to understand the process by which research makes its way into policy and practice are not new, […]
Pamoja is managing the communications function for the Learning, Acting and Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems Consortium (ReLAB-HS), which is funded by USAID. This is a global project that will support the development of health systems that are responsive to the growing needs for rehabilitation within populations. The five-year program will work with six […]
We were hired by FatRat Films to support the creation of two digital longform products on embedded health systems research for the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (the Alliance). The Alliance are a partnership hosted by the World Health Organization. We assisted in conceptualising the stories behind the digital longforms, visiting the countries […]
FEMHealth stands for ‘fee exemption for maternal health care’. Focal countries for this work were Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali and Morocco. All have recently introduced national policies to reduce financial barriers for delivery or emergency obstetric care. The overall aims of the project were (1) to develop new methodological approaches for the evaluation of complex […]
People and communities affected by Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are among the most economically and socially disadvantaged and vulnerable people on the planet. Illnesses such as onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, and trachoma are spread via worms, snails, and flies. While they can be treated with anthelminthics and antibiotics, they continue to cause ill-health […]
ARISE was launched in January 2019, and funded by UK Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund, this ambitious new programme will run for five years and it aims to catalyze change in approaches to enhancing accountability and improving the health and well being of poor, marginalized people living in informal urban settlements. ARISE will […]
The USAID SQALE Community Health Services Program was a three-year project to improve maternal and child health through a focus on community health systems in Kenya. Many women die or become disabled because they fail to access the recommended health services – both antenatal and when they give birth. A complex range of factors effect […]
This conference was a chance to draw on insights from the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment programme to look back at what has been achieved since the Beijing 4th World Women’s Conference in 1995 and forward to the post-2015 agenda. I was contracted to write the meeting report which contains insights for researchers, advocates, practitioners, and […]
Migrating out of Poverty is a DFID-funded project with partners in Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, and South Africa. The goal of Migrating out of Poverty is to maximise the poverty reducing and developmental impacts of migration and minimise the costs and risks of migration for poor people. We manage the communication function for this consortium by […]
By pamojakate The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) brings together all stakeholders in the medicines market to improve access, availability and affordability of medicines for the one-third of the world’s population to whom access is currently denied. The project was externally evaluated and Pamoja Communications put together a communications strategy to disseminate and share the findings […]
By pamojakate The first few years of life are crucial to outcomes later (whether it’s in health, wellbeing, or social and economic position) that this is an area that deserves attention. We were contracted by Oxford Policy Management to work on this ongoing project which also includes icddr,b in Bangladesh. This included supporting a stakeholder […]
By pamojakate This project included reviewing and rewriting the Centre’s website and co-producing promotional materials. As part of the process we interviewed staff and students about their relationship to the Centre. Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence
By pamojakate The REACHOUT programme is an international research project helping to understand and develop the role of close-to-community providers of health care in preventing, diagnosing, and treating major illnesses and health conditions in rural and urban areas in Africa and Asia. Using a quality improvement approach they have conducted research and communications in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malawi, […]
We have been involved in RinGs from the outset, we assisted with the proposal to DFID which initially led to the project being financed. Gender-sensitive health policy is a feature of international commitments and consensus documents and national-level normative statements and implementation guidance in many countries. However, there are gaps in our knowledge about how […]
PERFORM researched human resources for health in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania. Through action research they provide new knowledge on how district managers can effectively intervene within their current constraints to improve the performance of their staff. We supported the PERFORM team by providing capacity development on how to write policy briefs, attending their planning meetings […]
By pamojakate This assignment was to work with various staff members from the Institute of Development Studies and their partners in exploring the impact of their work on global policy. Along with Hazel Reeves, I facilitated a meeting to draw out lessons from case studies and synthesised these into a report for Sida on strategies […]
By pamojakate I supported the author of the publication, Yulye Jessica Romo Ramos, by reviewing ‘Science and technology for development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key topics, challenges and opportunities’ and providing critical feedback. Science and technology for development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key topics, challenges and opportunities
By pamojakate The ReBUILD Consortium was formed in 2011 and is a Research Programme Consortium funded by the UK Department for International Development. Partners in the UK, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Cambodia and Zimbabwe have come together to explore different approaches to health system development in countries that have been affected by political and social conflict. […]
By pamojakate Jun 2015 – Jun 2015 We provided support to the communications work for this important conference which offered new insights into why women are on the move, their relationships with home communities, and gendered occupations. It was held in Singapore at the Asia Research Institute and organised by the Migrating out of Poverty […]