FUNDING ORGANIZATION	RESEARCH ORGANIZATION	PROGRAM	DIRECTOR	CITY	COUNTRY	ABSTRACT
	EC	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	HUMAN RESOURCES FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN AFRICA	RAY, SUNANDA	GABORONE	BOTSWANA	View
Multiple reports have documented the important deficit in human resources in health (HRH) in Africa. The causes are multiple and relate to a combination of underproduction, internal mal-distribution and inappropriate task allocation, working conditions and brain drain. The HURAPRIM-project will develop innovative interventions and policies and address the HRH crisis. The objectives of the projects are to analyze the actual situation of HRH in Africa, to understand the complexity of the causes for the actual shortages in primary health care, to test interventions, strategies and policies that may improve the situation and to maximise networking and synergies. In order to achieve these goals, the project will assess the scope of the deficit in human resources and analyse the process of recruitment, undergraduate and postgraduate training, professional retention and unemployment and this for a variety of primary health care workers. The known complexity of the problem will prevent us from applying a "one size fits all"-approach. Therefore, the project consortium brings together three experienced and committed European partners and five African partners, representing different parts of Africa and specific situations in HRH. The designed interventions will be tested out through case-studies in these partner countries. The interventions will target different levels (capacity building, recruitment and retention, task differentiation and cooperation with informal sector/traditional healers), will addresses (in various degrees of importance) aspects at the micro-, meso and macro-levels and will be designed with involvement of all stakeholders, political authorities, NGOs and especially the local population. The frame of reference for the analysis will look at relevance, equity, quality, efficiency, acceptability, sustainability, participation and feasibility. Acceptance by policy makers, in close cooperation with stakeholders and of the local communities will be a main focu
	EC	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	NURSE FORECASTING: HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING IN NURSING	SHAIBU, SHEILA	GABORONE	BOTSWANA	View
Current human resources planning models in nursing are unreliable and ineffective as they consider volumes, but ignore effects on quality in patient care. The project RN4CAST aims innovative forecasting methods by addressing not only volumes, but quality of nursing staff as well as quality of patient care. RN4CAST is a consortium of 15 partners that will quantify in 11 European countries-Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, UK - important unmeasured factors in forecasting models including how features of hospital work environments and qualifications of the nurse workforce impact on nurse recruitment, retention, productivity and patient outcomes. Three partners outside Europe - China, South Africa, and Botswana- provide additional perspectives. Innovative elements of the project include unique measures of workplace dynamics and patient outcomes. Nurse workforce planning initiatives at national and European levels will be reviewed and newly collected data added to enhance accuracy for nurse workforce management. Data collection focuses on general hospitals, which employ the majority of nurses, account for the largest number of medical errors and comprise the largest share of national health expenditures. Each European partner will conduct a study of 20 to 50 hospitals depending on country size yielding information on more than 350 hospitals including surveys from over 50,000 nurses and outcomes of tens of thousands of patients. European partners were selected by geographic distribution, membership duration in the EU, research expertise and availability of patient discharge data. University of Pennsylvania, USA, will contribute specialized research expertise derived from previous international research. RN4CAST will be the largest nurse workforce study ever conducted in Europe, will add to accuracy of forecasting models and generate new approaches to more effective management of nursing resources in Europe.
	NIH	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	ASPECTS OF RELIGIOSITY THAT INFLUENCE HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AMONG PENTECOSTAL BOTSW	JENSEN, KIPTON	GABORONE	BOTSWANA	View
	NIH	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	MEPI: CREATING SUSTAINABLE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CAPACITY IN BOTSWANA	MOSSARO, THOMAS	GABORONE	BOTSWANA
	NIH	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	PARTNERSHIP FOR CAPACITY-BUILDING FOR HIV/STD PREVENTION RESEARCH ON BATSWANA ADO	CHILISA, BAGELE M	GABORONE	BOTSWANA	View
	NIH	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	PARTNERSHIP FOR CAPACITY-BUILDING FOR HIV/STD PREVENTION RESEARCH ON BATSWANA ADO	BAGELE, CHILISA	GABORONE	BOTSWANA	View
	NIH	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	INTERNATIONAL TRAINING IN AIDS-RELATED EPIDEMIOLOGY	MASSARO, THOMAS	GABORONE	BOTSWANA	View
	NIH	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	JOHNS HOPKINS-FOGARTY AFRICAN BIOETHICS TRAINING PROGRAM	NDEBELE, PAUL	GABORONE	BOTSWANA	View
	SIDA	UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA	INCREASING COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND UTILIZATION OF INDIGENOUS GRAINS TO IMPROVE NUTRITION SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS IN BOTSWANA AND NAMIBIA	CHIWONA KARLTUN, LINLEY	GABORONE	BOTSWANA	View
Objectives of the Project: To establish with rural communities in Botswana and Namibia knowledge networks and skills to improve the cultivation, processing and marketing of the hitherto underutilized morama beans. The project aims to directly benefit over 500 agricultural enterprises (farmers, processors and their dependents) in Botswana and Namibia who will be involved in the project, and potentially the over 3 million people in the two countries who live in poverty.