22 • Collaborated with WWC’s Environmental Change and Security Project ECSP on the
development of Tanzania PHE videos and a FOCUS article about the BALANCED Project work in Tanzania. Although technically these are WWC-ECSP and not BALANCED
products, they will showcase important BALANCED experiences and lessons learned.
• The BALANCED Deputy Director Edmond produced two CI-hosted blogs that highlighted different PHE approaches, one was entitled “Promoting Gender Equality through
Conservation” for International Women’s Day, and the other was titled “Linking Freshwater Conservation and Human Health” and was released for World Water Day.
• During this period, we provided updates to the BALANCED Advisory Committee members about Project activities and the results of the mid-term project planning meetings that had
taken place in September 2011. We also collaborated with various Advisory Committee members on the HOPE-LVB project Jason Bremner and Lynne Gaffikin and from WWC
Geoff Dabelko on the development of videos and on a FOCUS article on the Tanzania PHE activities. Jason Bremner PRB and Nancy Harris JSI also delivered technical
presentations at the June 2012 PHE course hosted by CRC and CI.
Results from Activity 2.1: • 2 training guides PHE CBD Training Manual and PHE Adult PE Training Manual 2.1
• CBDPE Reference Guides for PHE CBDs and PHE Adult PEs 2.1 • 1 champion storyprofile 2.2a
• 1 blog 2.2a • 1 technical report Philippines BMS 2.2a
• 1 peer-reviewed journal article TZ BMS 2.2b
2.2 Organize existing and new knowledge for PHE
As mentioned above, the BALANCED Project moved to a more “maintenance” type effort with the PHE Toolkit after the mid-term strategy meetings. As such, only key “new” resources were
uploaded as they become readily available and as they became “known” to the team. Meanwhile, the team continued to “promote” the PHE Toolkit as a rich and easily accessible repository of the
‘best of” PHE resources. The success of this promotion is reflected in the use statistics as reported below.
• The PHE Toolkit continued to gain users. Analysis of log file data for the January 1, 2012 to June 30, 2012 period showed an increase in usage of the site and its resources. The number
of visits increased to 35,374 from 34,051 in the last period. The number of pages and resources viewed this period also increased 20 to 61,562 from 51,813 previously.
23 • Between January 1 and June 30, 2012 we uploaded
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39 different publications and cross- linked them into multiple sub-tabs on the PHE Toolkit. BALANCED staff also reached out
to WWF and the Aspen Institute to upload end-of-project PHE documents and new PHE policy pieces, respectively. The materials fell under the categoriessub tabs of IEC materials,
Food Security and Population and Climate Change, and peer-reviewed literature.
• BALANCED continues to monitor the RSS feed that it helped build and that links the PHE Ethiopia network’s library of PHE-relevant publications to the PHE Toolkit home page of the
K4Health site PHE Toolkit
. • The Project team continued promoting the Toolkit through various channels, including but
not limited to directing to the Toolkit those audiences who receive BALANCED messages via listservs; sending personal emails and communications; directing targeted FPRH NGOs
and donors to the availability of the training manuals and reference guides; collaborating with the WWC to re-broadcast to more general audiences one champion story produced by
BALANCED as well as other PHE news items; distributing the Toolkit “marketing” postcards; and including the Toolkit website address on key presentations; etc.
Results for Activity 2.2 include: • PHE Toolkit uploaded with 39 new resources
• BALANCED Project website maintained, and content updated including the upload of two relevant news items and six technical resources
2.3 Share knowledge within the PHE and broader community
