- Identifying project areas already applying peacebuilding principles;
- Drawing attention to where health-related activities might make matters worse; and
- Suggesting further actions and resources.
The Filter concepts are relevant and can be used in a variety of ways during the project cycle. We encourage users to adapt it for use in design, planning, monitoring and evaluation.
Health and Peacebuilding Companion Manual
The Companion Manual is designed as a support document to the Health and Peacebuilding Filter. It provides further information clarifying principles and indicators within the Filter, as well as offering examples, resources, and opportunities for further action. Together, the two documents are useful in assuring that careful and purposeful design, planning, and implementation of projects and programs are carried out in order to avoid further grievances or worsening existing tensions.
The Filter and Companion Manual are valuable when considering both violent political conflicts which often involve armed groups, as well as local disputes, disagreements and tensions, and when thinking about how these manifest in the community. The Filter and Companion Manual have been field tested in a number of countries within the Asia-Pacific region. This process led to a number of modifications to make them more accessible to a range of users in different settings.
Health and Peacebuilding Pocket Card
The Health and Peacebuilding Pocket Card can be taken into the field to serve as a reminder of the five core principles found within the Health and Peacebuilding Filter. The Pocket Card displays a diagram explaining the relationship of the core peacebuilding principles with relation to the health sector and other development sectors. The other side of the Pocket Card provides ten key questions to ask in the field. These ‘top ten’ questions were derived from asking stakeholders in key informant interviews which of the indicator questions within the Health and Peacebuilding Filter were most important in the field.
Beyond the Logframe: A new tool for examining health and peacebuilding initiatives
Two members of the project team, Natalie Grove and Anthony Zwi, have written an article entitled
Beyond the Logframe: A new tool for examining health and peacebuilding initiatives, submitted to
Development in Practice, which compares the Filter with the traditional logframe, often used in planning development projects.
Beyond the Logframe: A new tool for examining health and peacebuilding initiatives link
INITIAL PROJECT RESEARCH
The Filter and Companion Manual were created due to the work of the first year of this research project. The initial year of the project was largely devoted to exploring the vast area of health and conflict, types of conflict situations, and specific country situations. The countries forming part of this study are East Timor, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands, Bougainville/PNG, and Cambodia. This first phase predominantly involved secondary research and concentrated largely on framing the research questions. The resulting two paper sets cover what the team deems essential to introduce the area of health, conflict and peace-building can be accessed below.
Paper set I: Health and Peacebuilding: Securing the Future
The first set of papers sets the scene for contemplating the relationship between health and peace-building in humanitarian crises and development, specifically focusing on the long-term health and social impact of violence.
Paper set II: The Challenge of Human Resource Management in Conflict-Prone Situations
The second paper set discusses the role health workers play in pre-conflict settings and outlines four key areas in managing and developing human resources within the health sector in a conflict-prone environment.
The Issues papers present a succinct overview of the topic. The Background papers offers further exploration into the topic, including case studies and resource material. The Considerations for Policy outlines the fundamental concepts of each topic to be considered in policy development.
COUNTRY FOCUS
The two–year project explored health and health-related dimensions in five areas of the Asia–Pacific region:
- Bougainville
- Cambodia
- East Timor
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
RESEARCH TEAM
Australian Investigators:
Prof. Anthony Zwi,
School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM),
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Prof. Michael Humphrey,
School of Sociology and Anthropology, UNSW
Prof. Derrick Silove,
School of Psychiatry, UNSW
Dr. Anna Whelan, SPHCM, UNSW
Dr. Tessa Ho, SPHCM, UNSW
Prof. Maurice Eisenbruch,
SPHCM, UNSW
Ms. Anne Bunde-Birouste, SPHCM, UNSW
Ms. Natalie Grove, SPHCM, UNSW
Ms. Emily Waller, SPHCM, UNSW
Canadian Contributors:
Prof. Joanna Santa Barbara,
Peace through Health Program,
McMaster University; Canada
Mr. Rob Stevens, Peace through Health Program, McMaster University; Canada
Dr. Neil Arya, Peace through Health Program, McMaster University; Canada
In-Country Collaborators:
Mr. Melchior Dare, HIV Response Coordinator, Bougainville Provincial AIDS Committee; Bougainville
Dr. Joao Soares Martins, Dean, Faculty of Public Health, University da Paz; East Timor
Dr. Nelson Martins, PhD candidate, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin; East Timor
Dr. George Malefoasi, Under Secretary for Health Improvement, Ministry of Health, Honiara; Solomon Islands
Dr. Palitha Abeykoon, WHO Consultant, Colombo; Sri Lanka
Mr. Kolitha Wickramage, Australian Youth Ambassador, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Mr. David MacLaren, PhD candidate, School of Public Health, Griffith University, Australia
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