Supervision
In the supervision phase you will need to apply the best contract management practices for digital products and services and make key decisions about the type of solution your project will finance.
Preparation
In the preparation phase you will need to understand what the starting situation is in your country in term of digital health and what the real needs of your counterpart are. You will also want to imagine your future system with your client, define its components, plan and prioritize actions.
Policy dialogue
You can download a Standard Proposal Document. This document is a standard proposal for technical support to your country. It presents the different tools available for project preparation. It allows you to start a conversation with your counterpart about which tool to apply depending on the priorities of the country. This proposal was prepared in conjunction with the Pan American Health Organization and many of the tools are directly accessible in the different sections of this toolkit.
SPH Toolkit for Digital transformation
This toolkit will help you to take key decisions in relation to digital transformation in each of the phases of the project cycle:
The radio is still alive! And it has helped foster children´s development during the pandemic
At the beginning of the lockdown in Guatemala, due to the COVID- 19 pandemic, the staff of Juega Conmigo in Childfund faced a great challenge: How to reach families that have young children and live in remote rural communities?
Imagining a Future that doesn’t Exist
Emma Näslund-Hadley, IDB Lead Education Specialist
Juan Manuel Hernandez-Agramonte, Deputy Regional Director of Innovations for Poverty Action for Latin America and the Caribbean
Kelly Montaño, Research Associate of Innovations for Poverty Action for Latin America and the Caribbean
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Promises and Challenges
This report describes the potential of AI to improve individual and public health by improving access, improving clinical decision-making, and creating new efficiencies in clinical care and research. It then describes the differences between more traditional medical devices and products that use AI, discusses the ways in which countries are considering regulating these products, and examines the specific risks of what are probably the most popular uses of AI in the medical industry.
The Gender Pay Gap in Brazil: It Starts with College Students' Choice of Major
We herein discuss how college major choice affects gender wage gaps by highlighting the role that STEM majors play in explaining the gender wage gap in a developing country. We focus on a Latin American country where a systematic analysis of the interaction between students choice of college major and the gender wage gap is currently lacking.
The Gender Pay Gap in Brazil: It Starts with College Students' Choice of Major
We herein discuss how college major choice affects gender wage gaps by highlighting the role that STEM majors play in explaining the gender wage gap in a developing country. We focus on a Latin American country where a systematic analysis of the interaction between students choice of college major and the gender wage gap is currently lacking.
Education 2030: The Big Leap to a Better Future
How do you know somebody comes from a low-income background? In Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in many other countries around the world, you ask a simple question: What school did you go to? That means that school is not precisely a great equalizer; unfortunately, rather the opposite.