Keeping information alive: resource centres for district level health workers in Tanzania

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Healthlink Worldwide is an international NGO (www.healthlink.org.uk), working with partners in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America to improve the use and impact of health information and health communications in poor and vulnerable communities. Over the last twenty-five years, Healthlink Worldwide has developed expertise in resource centre development, which is now co-ordinated through Source (www.asksource.info). A collaborative venture of Healthlink Worldwide, the Centre for International Child Health and Handicap International, Source is an international information support centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability.

The Source model brings together good practice in information management, capacity development in partnership with organisations in developing countries, and a unique collection of resources and integrated methods for communication around health. Source identifies, reviews, and signposts materials produced by, or appropriate to, developing country users, particularly ‘good practice’ in the field, and reflects the priorities of developing country information needs in its services and systems.