N U R C E N T E R FOR R E SE A R C H A N D P O L I C Y
Nur Center for Research and Policy, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Shadman, Lahore Info@nurfoundation.org www.nurfoundation.org/ncrp www.facebook.com/NurCenterforResearchandPolicy Fax: +(92-42) 3750 3692 | Tel:+(92-42) 3750 3694
ORIENTATION Nur Center for Research and Policy(NCRP) is endowed by Nur Foundation, an SECP registered, Not-for-Profit company. NCRP is a policy think tank acting as catalyst and manager of change to evolve policies for social and economic empowerment of communities.
Vision Nurturing human development by promoting professional excellence in policy & practice
Mission To provide evidence based recommendations to strengthen and inform policy to reform practice in health, education and social sector
Rationale NCRP was established to address the need for well-crafted and efficient tools for policymaking, implementation and institutionalization of international best practices in Pakistan.
SCOPE OF WORK The Center aims to develop human resource capacity and generate research, which will contribute to human development at the national, regional and international level for enhancing social well-being through informed policy and reformed practice. NCRP has partnered with many organizations locally and internationally in the health, education and social sector offering services through a consortium of trainers and consultants, who pool their strengths to offer capacity enhancement, research, project management and consulting. The Center currently has access to a full time faculty of more than 200 professionals who are technical/subject specialists with diverse backgrounds, a program management staff to implement its projects and the state of the art, purpose built infrastructure and facilities. NCRP further facilitates evidence based policy development and provides a forum that promotes critical thinking, freedom of ideas and an independent quest for fact-finding. It has emerged as a Think Tank working as catalyst and manager of change to bring about social and economic empowerment of underserved communities and enhancing the social well-being through informed policy and reformed practice. The Center undertakes properly grounded research to generate evidence that helps the policy makers in finding innovative solutions, to the challenges being faced by the policy makers, which reinvigorate the traditional paradigm of education and practice by establishing a blend of global best practices that are blended in the local context. NCRP promotes linkages and collaborations to encourage knowledge sharing & optimal utilization of existing resources.
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NCRP MANDATE
Consulting
Training
Policy
Research
Organizing Advocacy & Policy Development Policy Seminar on Health Manifestos of Political Parties a week before the parliamentary elections Provincial Level Nutrition Seminar on nutritional status of adolescent girls in the country Preventing Child Violence: Use of Evidence to Strengthen Advocacy, A project with John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Advocacy for accreditation of FWW by the PNC Advocacy for upgrading the BPS Scale of LHV Policy Roundtable on Performance Management Mechanism for the Punjab Provincial Health Department Policy Roundtable on Development of Advanced Midwifery Training Program, for the Punjab Provincial Health Department Developing the National Nursing Policy for the Federal Ministry of Health
NCRP offers assistance in the following areas: Undertaking technical assistance projects Generating evidence for influencing practice and policy changes Organizing Policy Forums and undertaking research to build evidence for formulation policy recommendations to the government. Publishing and disseminating policy briefs Developing innovative country specific models in all sectors of development Curriculum development of innovative social sector certificate programs Contributing to Workforce Planning, Training and Production Reorienting strategies in the wake of devolution
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NCRP CONSULTANCIES [TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRAININGS, RESEARCH PROJECTS AND ADVOCACY INITIATIVES] PROJECTS
DONORS
Developing Pay and Remuneration Structure for a national public health institute
USAID
Developing a business/ development plan for a national public health institute in order to develop it into a National University of Public Health Sciences
USAID
Preventing Child Violence: Use of Evidence to Strengthen Advocacy
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Third party evaluation of the National Community Midwifery Program
Technical Resource Facility
Rapid Situation Assessment and Development of BCC material that addresses reinforcement on adherence
Global Fund
Undertaking Training of Trainers for CHBC Centre Staff
Global Fund
Training Health Care Providers (HCP) on ART
Global Fund
Development of National Framework and Manual on care for children affected by HIV
Global Fund
Developing National Guidelines for Community and Home Based Care
Global Fund
Training Manual for Community and Home Based Care
Global Fund
Assessment of Primary Health Care (PHC)& Secondary Health Care (SHC) in Comoros with a special focus on Primary Health Care and to submit a technical report and recommend on the better approach to support the PHC/ SHC system in Comoros
Qatar Red Crescent Society
HRH Profiling for Punjab, Pakistan
WHO
Strategies to improve the Health Services in Comoros
Qatar Red Crescent Society
Healthcare Manpower Planning and Management
Asian Development Bank
Preventing Child Violence: Use of Evidence to Strengthen Advocacy
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Capacity Building of Midwifery Tutors (Training of Trainers) of Punjab teaching in Public Health Nursing Schools
UNICEF
Capacity building of school teachers in the rural and peri urban areas of Punjab Education Foundation
Punjab Education Foundation
National Research Study on Nutritional Status of Adolescent Married and Unmarried girls for Research Advocacy Fund
AUSAID, DFID, British Council
Training of NGO, CBO and CHBC Members on CHBC Guidelines
APLHIV
Training of Organizational Development and Management for NGOs in HIV/AIDS Sector
APLHIV
HIV/AIDS Advocacy Seminar
APLHIV
National Consultation on understanding the role of PLHIV Associations
APLHIV
Training of NGO, CBO and CHBC Members on CHBC Guidelines
NACP
Studying the knowledge, beliefs and practices of unmarried and married adolescents with respect to nutrition and on the sources of nutrition information that adolescents have access to and use Evidence Generation and Advocacy for Institutionalization of School Health Programme in the Punjab ProvinceFamily Planning and Reproductive Health Facilities Assessment in 15 Districts of Sindh
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DFID, RAF DFID, British Council, Ilm Ideas Marie Stopes Society