Useful Resources

The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch provides a systematic compilation of best practices for the realisation of the right to food and also documents where violations have been committed. The Zero Issue deals with the topic ‘The World Food Crisis and the Human Right to Food’ and gathers articles and country monitoring reports from different experts and regions (the Americas, Asia, Africa and India). The publication also discusses the most recent global trends affecting the right to food, such as the increased expansion of agrofuels, and sheds new light on practices that continue to impede the realisation of the right to food, such as mining and the mismanagement of social cash transfers. UN experts on human rights and the right to food also give their input on recent UN documents and sessions. The hard copy of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is accompanied by a CD-ROM that includes supporting documents and full reports of all content.

This toolkit by NPower Seattle is for any non-profit employee or manager given the task of managing donors. Non-profit organisations regularly face the challenge of accomplishing a mission with limited resources and high accountability for expenditures regularly considered overhead expenses. Donation and grant-dependent funding often means that ‘success’ becomes the ability to tap into and grow these donor bases as efficiently and effectively as possible, but this is hard if you have limited in-house technology expertise and are tasked with maintaining and managing unusual and detailed data to support your services or have data that is stored in multiple locations that don’t talk with one another. The donor management software in this kit will help you to manage relationships with active and prospective donors by tracking contact information, keeping records of correspondence and donations, managing grant deadlines and producing detailed reports.

As part of its ‘This is Public Health’ campaign, ASPH has developed the ‘This is Public Health’ toolkit to which will serve as a resource for anyone interested in educating others about public health issues or the field of public health. The materials in the toolkit are suggestions or templates, which can either be used as is, or tailored to suit your specific audiences. The toolkit also includes links for other sources that can increase knowledge of public health inside and outside classroom. The toolkit contains information on the 'This is Public Health' campaign and the field as a whole. Materials will be provided that target a range of individuals, accommodating varying age groups and differing levels of familiarity with the field of public health.

The demographic divide - inequality in the population and health profiles of rich and poor countries - is widening. Two sharply different patterns of population growth are evident: little growth or even decline in most wealthy countries and continued rapid population growth in the world’s poorest countries. The 2008 World Population Data Sheet and its summary report offer detailed information about country, regional and global population patterns. It provides up-to-date demographic, health, and environment data for 209 countries and 25 regions of the world. It points up stark contrasts between developed and developing countries and predicts that the world population will soon have an urban majority. In 2008, for the first time, half of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Despite some improvement, maternal mortality continues to be very high in developing countries. In the least-developed countries, 35% of the population consumes fewer than the minimum calories required to lead a healthy active life. That figure rises above 60% in several sub-Saharan countries.