Panagora enlisted to help establish a web-based TB knowledge center in Ukraine
Panagora is helping USAID/Ukraine’s Strengthening Tuberculosis (TB) Control in Ukraine project (STbCU) create a web-based TB knowledge center, as a subcontractor to Chemonics International.
The center will help support the overall goal of STbCU to promote use of internationally recognized best practices in control and treatment of TB, multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), and HIV/TB co-infection. Specifically, STbCU aims to improve the quality and expand availability of the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) TB services. Establishment of a TB training and information resource center is an important step in reaching this goal.
Panagora is carrying out research to identify best practice among existing virtual TB resource centers and will help design and establish a center with stakeholder input to obtain the necessary consensus on function, content, approaches, and positioning to ensure sustainability.
Panagora is excited to be a part of helping improve the quality and expand availability of the WHO-recommended DOTS-based TB services in Ukraine.
Panagora’s President, Betsy Bassan new chair of SBAIC
Earlier this month SBAIC, the industry association for small businesses providing professional services in international development, elected Betsy Bassan as Chair. Read the complete press release here.
Announcing subcontract win: five-year performance and impact evaluation of USAID/Uganda’s innovative Literacy and Health Education Program
Panagora is thrilled to be the sole subcontractor in NORC’s winning proposal to carry out a five-year Performance and Impact Evaluation (P&IE) of USAID/Uganda’s Literacy and Health Education Program.
The goal of the USAID-funded Literacy and Health Education Program is to improve the quality of education in Uganda, with an emphasis on early grade reading for 3.5 million primary schools students, and health and HIV/AIDS education. It also seeks to improve the availability and use of high-quality data for education sector decision-making, including on HIV/AIDS prevention.
Panagora is excited about working with NORC, a research and evaluation leader, and serving USAID/Uganda’s pioneering efforts to program multi-sectorally and implement USAID’s new evaluation policy and collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) agenda.
In this cutting-edge scenario, the NORC team will undertake performance and impact evaluation as a third party in an ongoing manner parallel to implementation. Throughout, we will maintain a close relationship with USAID, Ugandan counterparts, and the implementing partner, RTI, to maximize learning, facilitate continuous improvement, and increase ultimate program impact.
Panagora will support the overall evaluation effort, and lead the performance evaluation, complementing NORC with performance evaluation, literacy, and health and HIV/AIDS expertise.
Panagora leads development of CIDC capacity building paper with case studies from members
Read the capacity building paper here
CIDC: Introducing the New Kid on the Block
Read all about CIDC, the “New Kid on the Block,” in comments by Panagora’s Betsy Bassan at the Society for International Development- Washington (SID-W) event, January 13, 2012.
See also Devex’s article on the event.