WHO CIFA consultation NGO Mapping Standards Describing Religious Assets
World Health Organization /CIFA Consultation on Mapping FBOs Geneva, 2009
Jean Duff, while at CIFA, collaborated with Reverend Ted Karpf at WHO, to design and manage an international consultation on NGO Mapping standards describing Religious Health Assets.
Representatives from 39 international partners including governments, NGOs, FBOs, academic partners, and international organizations, convened to discuss data collection and geographic mapping standards for assessing, monitoring and mapping health services, including those used to describe religious health assets provided by the faith-based or faith inspired organization. Based on WHO’s data collection tool and methodology for assessing and mapping health service availability and readiness, working groups discussed standard approaches to the collection, management, use, and dissemination of data that express the value added by FBOs in health services delivery, especially those religious health assets deemed to be intangible or at least difficult to quantify. Specific modifications to the Services Availability Mapping (SAM) core instrument were suggested and subsequently field tested and amended, including the addition of a module to represent specific interests of FBOs (e.g. provision of free or concessional care, capacity for spiritual care providers and volunteer staff, and provision of psychosocial services, including bereavement services).
