Who we are

 

The German Health Practice Collection (GHPC) is an initiative of the Division of Health and Population Policy of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and of its two implementing organisations, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and KfW Entwicklungsbank. It aims to to share, at international level, promising practices developed in German-supported health and social protection programmes worldwide.

Up until March 2010 this series of publications was called 'German HIV Practice Collection' and it only reported on successful programmes working on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights. In April 2010, it was decided to broaden this focus to also include successful programmes in the fields of health and social protection. Under 'Publications' you can find all reports that have been released to date.

How we work

Organisations implementing health programmes supported by German Development Cooperation (GDC), whether they are government or non-government organisations, can propose methods and approaches they developed for documentation in the German Health Practice Collection.

Applicants have to fill in and submit this proposal form.

All proposals are assessed by an editorial board of health experts from the head offices of the German development organisations and from German-supported health programmes in partner countries.

The editorial board ranks the proposals and selects those that meet the majority of the Collection’s selection criteria (see 'Selection criteria') and that help raise the profile of German Development Cooperation in health.

The GHPC Secretariat will then send a professional writer to the site of the selected programme. The writers support the partner organisations and the German experts in documenting the methods that they have developed. Documentations always encompass a written publication and photos. They often include useful materials for downloading. And, increasingly, they also include video and audio clips.

Once the draft version of the text for publication is complete, at least two independent international peer reviewers with renowned expertise in the particular field must approve these methods as ‘state of the art’ before they are published as part of the German Health Practice Collection.

Our ‘products’

Each of our reports is published in English as well as in the main language of the region from which it stems (mostly French and Russian). For each report, a long (approx. 30 pages) and a short version (4 pages) are available as .pdf-files for downloading under Publications. The short versions in English can also be read online.

Hard copies of the short versions can be ordered online by visiting "Search and order GIZ publications".  To search enter some keywords for the requested publication and click 'Order a printed copy'. In case of problems contact  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

On authorships

In our publications, we credit partner and German experts as authors who contributed substantially to the development of the described method or approach; and contributed to its documentation. The professional writers are credited as writers. Others who played a role in the development of the approach will be credited in the acknowledgements.

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