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Drafted the “PHE Field Implementation: A Simple PHE Practitioner Guide” during the first three months of this reporting period. In March and April 2013, the Project shared a
draft and solicited technical feedback from 20 PHE collaborating NGOs. The majority of the comments and suggestions were incorporated into the final document. USAID
technical staff reviewed the document in July and a final version was disseminated on September 9, 2013.
• Produced the final BALANCED project newsletter which highlighted accomplishments,
best practices and lessons learned over the past five years. Disseminated the newsletter on September 13, 2013.
• Prepared a draft of the lessons learned document on PHE scale-up, drawing on the
experiences of the BALANCED Project and collaborating PHE implementers, and including experiences from BALANCED-Philippines, ExpandNet, World Wildlife Fund
WWF, Jane Goodall Institute and other PHE organizations in June and July2013. The final document will be produced after the BALANCED Project ends.
Results from Activity 2.1: •
Four tools developed and published online IR 2.1 •
Five publications documenting key actionable findings about PHE approaches and lessons learned IR 2.2
2.2. Organize existing and new knowledge for PHE
Key “new” resources were uploaded as they become readily available and “known” to the team. Also, the team drafted a handover strategy for the PHE Toolkit for USAID. Meanwhile, the team
continued to “promote” the PHE Toolkit as a rich and easily accessible repository of the ‘best of” PHE resources as described below:
• In coordination with USAID PHE Technical Advisor, BALANCED staff developed the
strategy document for handover of management of the PHE Toolkit in March 2013. The strategy included a brief summary of the methodology used for keeping the toolkit up-to-
date, a list of any “time bound” materials or content that willshould be removed, a list of “lessons learned,” as appropriate, and an explanation of any “quirky” aspects of the site
for the next activity manager to continue the toolkit. The document was submitted to the USAID PHE Technical Advisor in May 2013.
• The data log files show the life-of-Project show an average of over 400 visits per month
since the date of the launch, with a low monthly hit count of 71 and a high monthly hit count of 1,065.9
• Between January 1 and September 13, 2013 we uploaded
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15 different publications and cross-linked them into multiple sub-tabs on the PHE Toolkit. This number of uploads is
9 Previous reports to USAID cited data usage figures that were incorrect. This was the result of a programming flaw on the K4Health Toolkit. It affected just two Toolkits and unfortunately, the PHE
Toolkit was one. The K4H team only recently alerted us to this technology flaw, but confirms that the figures cited in this report are accurate.
43 considerably lower than in previous reporting periods due to the refocusing of overall
Project KM efforts and the fact that the K4Health portal was offline for technical enhancement and revisions for a large part of OctoberNovember 2012.
• 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 .
• BALANCED staff updated the BALANCED Project website monthly with technical
content, news items and other information. Results for Activity 2.2 include:
• PHE Toolkit uploaded with 15 new resources
• PHE toolkit handover strategy submitted to USAID
2.3 Share knowledge within the PHE and broader community
