List of tools
Communication and Advocacy Checklist: EVIPNet Europe
The aim of this document is to serve EVIPNet Europe country teams and WHO country offices as a summary of the major communication considerations associated with communicating about and advocating for...
Conceptual Background and Case Studies – Introduction to EVIPNet Europe
EVIPNet is a knowledge translation network established by WHO. EVIPNet envisions a world in which policy-makers and other stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries use the best available resear...
Facilitator's guide: using research in the EVIPNet framework
This Guide provides complete instructions and materials needed to conduct a workshop in which participants are guided towards (i) acquiring, assessing, adapting and applying evidence that is relevan...
Lessons from the Health Evidence Network (HEN): Lessons learned about delivering an evidence synthesis service for policy-makers
HEN is an information service for public health decision-makers in the WHO European Region, in action since 2003 and initiated and coordinated by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. HEN supports publi...
Options for best practice clinical guideline development in Ukraine: policy brief
This policy brief summarizes the results of this study and describes best practice structures, processes and methods for guideline development in Ukraine. Key messages include the requirement for inve...
Sound Choices: Enhancing capacity for evidence-informed health policy
This Guide addresses a mismatch between what is known about how to respond to particular health problems in poor economies and what is actually done about them. It focuses on one cause of the problems...
Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening
In the previous decades, little was understood about what works in health systems strengthening and how researchers and policymakers can apply it. So, although there was general agreement for the need...
Tools for making good data visualizations: the art of charting
Data visualization is a collection of methods that use visual representations to explore, make sense of and communicate quantitative data. It allows trends and patterns in quantitative data to be seen...
Systems thinking for noncommunicable disease prevention policy: guidance to bring systems approaches into practice
Systems thinking is a comparatively novel but rapidly developing area of knowledge that can offer a number of approaches to address complex public health problems such as the prevention of noncommunic...
The project has ended but we can still learn from it! Practical guidance for conducting post-project evaluations of adolescent sexual and reproductive health projects
Many adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) projects encounter and address policy and programmatic challenges, and in doing so, learn valuable lessons. Since careful documentation and rigoro...
Implementing citizen engagement within evidence-informed policy-making: an overview of purpose and methods
This overview provides a fundamental understanding of citizen engagement (CE) and its relevance to the evidence-informed policy (EIP) work of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States....