This document outlines an evidence-based advocacy strategic plan and discusses why advocacy is done and the roles of an advocate. Advocacy is done to influence decision-makers and address the causes of poverty through defending human rights, promoting justice, and engaging with officials to change policies and practices. Advocacy asks for new policies, revisions to unjust policies, enforcement of good policies, and blocking harmful policy changes. The roles of an advocate involve representing communities, empowering people, negotiating with decision-makers, lobbying for change, and mobilizing networks.
The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is a comprehensive structure for assessing health needs for designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion and other public health programs to meet those needs. PRECEDE provides the structure for planning a targeted and focused public health program. PROCEED provides the structure for implementing and evaluating the public health program.
The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is a comprehensive structure for assessing health needs for designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion and other public health programs to meet those needs. PRECEDE provides the structure for planning a targeted and focused public health program. PROCEED provides the structure for implementing and evaluating the public health program.
Communication For Change: A Short Guide to Social and Behavior Change (SBCC) ...CChangeProgram
Many theories and models have been used to guide health and development communication work . This PowerPoint presentation provides more detailed background on the theories and models leading to Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC).
Decentralization in Health Care – is there evidence for it?
Guest lecture at School of Public Health, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
by Axel Hoffmann, PhD
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Communication For Change: A Short Guide to Social and Behavior Change (SBCC) ...CChangeProgram
Many theories and models have been used to guide health and development communication work . This PowerPoint presentation provides more detailed background on the theories and models leading to Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC).
Decentralization in Health Care – is there evidence for it?
Guest lecture at School of Public Health, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
by Axel Hoffmann, PhD
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Educating Policy Makers and Telling Our StoryJim McKay
Policy presentation at the Alabama Children's Trust Fund Grantees meeting in Birmingham, AL, Aug. 2, 2016.
Federal updates on child welfare legislation are included.
The failure of researchers to link evidence to policy and practice produces evidence that no one uses, impedes innovation, and leads to mediocre or even detrimental development policies. To help improve the definition, design, and implementation of policy research, researchers should adopt a strategic outcome-oriented approach.
The Community Tool Box has been working with its Iranian partners who are providing training on policy matters for NGO leaders and advocates based in Iran with the goal of strengthening their skills in policy making and capacity building. As a trainer I prepared and delivered a 60 minute on-line (GoToWebinar) audio lecture on strategic planning for policy development or policy change. The Power Point lecture was translated into Farsi and will be broadcast to the Iranian audience at a later date.
Leading Pain Free Organizational Change 2014Kathy Brandt
Have you ever wished you could receive a palliative care consult to help your organization manage the pain and suffering of organizational change? The key to leading change is to do it within the context of your organization’s mission. Whether the change is the result of external factors (rate cuts, competition, regulatory scrutiny) or internal drivers (business development, program expansion, new partnerships), change can be painless (or at least tolerable). Discover specific strategies to change the culture of your organization from change-averse to change-ready.
Professional ethics refers to a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of individuals in a specific profession. It encompasses the standards of conduct and decision-making expected within a particular field, and often includes guidelines for avoiding conflicts of interest, maintaining confidentiality, and treating clients/colleagues with respect and fairness. Professional ethics help to ensure that professionals act in an honest and responsible manner, and maintain the trust and confidence of the public. Examples of professions that have a code of ethics include medicine, law, engineering, journalism, and finance.
Beyond Youth Custody (BYC)’s Programme Manager, Pippa Goodfellow, co-delivered a workshop on ‘Achieving effective resettlement’ with Brian Redding, Project Manager for the East Midlands Resettlement Consortia (EMRC) and David Banks, member of the Youth Justice Board. The workshop explored the link between research and practice using practical examples of how the EMRC have taken up learnings from BYC and incorporated them into their delivery of services.
Dr Barbara Czachorska- Jones: Empowering the co-operative movement through ad...cooperatives
Dr Barbara Czachorska- Jones. Director, Management Systems, International Operations for Global at the International Co-operative Alliance Global Conference in Cape Town, November 2013.
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
Data Centers - Striving Within A Narrow Range - Research Report - MCG - May 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) expects to see demand and the changing evolution of supply, facilitated through institutional investment rotation out of offices and into work from home (“WFH”), while the ever-expanding need for data storage as global internet usage expands, with experts predicting 5.3 billion users by 2023. These market factors will be underpinned by technological changes, such as progressing cloud services and edge sites, allowing the industry to see strong expected annual growth of 13% over the next 4 years.
Whilst competitive headwinds remain, represented through the recent second bankruptcy filing of Sungard, which blames “COVID-19 and other macroeconomic trends including delayed customer spending decisions, insourcing and reductions in IT spending, energy inflation and reduction in demand for certain services”, the industry has seen key adjustments, where MCG believes that engineering cost management and technological innovation will be paramount to success.
MCG reports that the more favorable market conditions expected over the next few years, helped by the winding down of pandemic restrictions and a hybrid working environment will be driving market momentum forward. The continuous injection of capital by alternative investment firms, as well as the growing infrastructural investment from cloud service providers and social media companies, whose revenues are expected to grow over 3.6x larger by value in 2026, will likely help propel center provision and innovation. These factors paint a promising picture for the industry players that offset rising input costs and adapt to new technologies.
According to M Capital Group: “Specifically, the long-term cost-saving opportunities available from the rise of remote managing will likely aid value growth for the industry. Through margin optimization and further availability of capital for reinvestment, strong players will maintain their competitive foothold, while weaker players exit the market to balance supply and demand.”
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
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Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
3. • Influencing the decision, policies and practices of powerful decision-
makers, to address underlying causes of poverty, bring justice and
support good development.’
• ‘Influencing decision-makers’
• ‘Defending human rights’
• ‘Promoting justice’
• ‘Changing government policies and practices’
• ‘Constructive engagement with officials’
• ‘Building strategic relationships
4. Why do we do advocacy?
• Asking for a new policy
• Asking for an unjust policy to be revised
• Asking for a good policy to be enforced
• Asking for better implementation when a policy is being unfairly
implemented
• Changing attitudes or practices
• Blocking a threatened change in policy
5. The roles of an advocate include…
• Representing
• Accompanying
• Empowering
• Mediating
• Modelling
• Negotiating
• Networking
• Lobbying
• Mobilising
• Bargaining
