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HEART Talks is a series of web-based resources based around short video recordings focusing on the fields of health, education nutrition, social protection and WASH. Experts in these fields volunteer their time and expertise in exchange for the opportunity to present their ideas and share information on their subject of interest. The videos are accompanied by key papers, links to relevant documents and other resources.

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Education
Birte Snilstveit on improving learning outcomes and access to education
HEART talks
August 15, 2016

Birte Snilstveit, 3ie’s Evaluation Specialist, presented findings on 14th April 2016 from 3ie’s systematic review on education effectiveness, Interventions for improving learning outcomes and access to education in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on education aim to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning. In… Read more

Access to education, Learning Outcomes, Low income countries, middle income countries, SDGs
Education
Muriel Dunbar on defining skills
HEART talks
July 29, 2016

Muriel Dunbar, Senior Skills Adviser at Cambridge Education, provides a definition of skills and looks at how widely this extends in terms of educational backgrounds, types of skill, range of ages and range of sectors. She defines skills as: ‘the combination of technical, cognitive and behavioural competences which enable a worker to acquire and retain… Read more

Skills, Training
Education
Simon McGrath on transforming skills development
HEART talks
July 27, 2016

Simon McGrath, Professor of International Education and Development, University of Nottingham, talks about transforming skills development in relation to two key opportunities – the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 and the new UNESCO technical and vocational training (TVET) strategy. Although TVET and youth employment is mentioned specifically in the SDGs, Simon… Read more

Skills
Education
Joanna Härmä on low-fee private schooling in Maputo, Mozambique
HEART talks
July 26, 2016

In this video Joanna Härmä, visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, talks about research she undertook for DFID in Autumn 2015 on non-state provision of education in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique. In many developing countries governments struggle to provide education that is accessible to all and of good… Read more

low-cost private schools, Mozambique, Private Schools
Education
Health
Nutrition
Jo Ailwood and Stephanie Bengtsson on integrating early childhood services through care
HEART talks
May 20, 2016

Dr Stephanie Bengtsson and Dr Jo Ailwood have been involved in a teacher training research project in Zimbabwe since 2013. This talk looks at how the concept of care can be used to integrate early childhood services. A mapping of age phases across sectors is presented and the meaning of the word ‘care’ is discussed…. Read more

care, Early Childhood
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Rosemary Morgan on gender in health systems research
HEART talks
May 20, 2016

Rosemary Morgan is a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this HEART talks video, she talks about the project she works on, ‘Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGs): Building Stronger Health Systems’, and about the importance of making gender integral in health systems research. RinGs came about as a project… Read more

Gender, gender and health, Gender inequality, health inequalities, health systems
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Essential gender issues in relation to health systems
HEART talks
April 25, 2016

In a group interview Sarah Ssali (Makerere University), Sally Theobald (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine), Rosemary Morgan (John Hopkins University) and Asha George (John Hopkins University) talk about essential gender issues in relation to health systems. They also promote the RinGs Initiative (Research in Gender and Ethics) and talk about how people can get involved…. Read more

gender and health, Gender equity, health systems
Gender
Health
Improving the quality of maternal care using audit
HEART talks
February 18, 2016

This HEART talks video is a recording of a seminar held at DFID Whitehall on 28th October 2015 and is led by Professor van den Broek, head of the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She commences this presentation by stressing that the majority of the CMNH’s focus is on… Read more

audits, Kenya, Maternal Health, quality of care
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Haja Wurie on incorporating gender into health systems reconstruction in post-Ebola Sierra Leone
HEART talks
February 15, 2016

Dr Haja Wurie is based at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In this HEART talks video she describes the rebuilding of health systems in the post-conflict period in Sierra Leone as ‘fire-fighting’. This meant that the response did not adequately capture gender. Ensuring service provision for women and… Read more

Ebola, gender and health, Sierra Leone
Gender
Understanding gender issues in health systems strengthening in post-conflict Uganda
HEART talks
February 12, 2016

Sarah Ssali is a senior lecturer in Women and Gender Studies at Makere University, Uganda. She is also a member of the ReBUILD consortium. In this HEART talks video she notes the problem in thinking that reconstructing health systems in fragile contexts is just about reconstructing the buildings. This is important because of the deconstruction… Read more

Education
Pauline Rose on unequal learning in education
HEART talks
February 11, 2016

Pauline Rose is a professor of international education at the University of Cambridge and director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre. In this video Pauline discusses findings from a HEART think piece: How can education systems become equitable by 2030?, written by herself and Ben Alcott. She speaks about inequalities in access to education… Read more

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