2014
Nur Center for Research and Policy Lahore, Pakistan
Organizational Profile
Nur Center for Research & Policy www.nurfoundation.org/ncrp The following document provides an overview of Nur Center for Research and Policy.
CONTENTS CONTENTS .................................................................................................1 ORIENTATION ...........................................................................................1 Vision ........................................................................................................ 2 Mission ..................................................................................................... 2 Rationale .................................................................................................. 2 SCOPE OF WORK ..................................................................................... 2 NCRP MANDATE ...................................................................................... 3 Organizing Advocacy & Policy Development ......................................... 3 NCRP offers assistance in the following areas: ...................................... 3 NCRP CONSULTANCIES [TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRAININGS, RESEARCH PROJECTS AND ADVOCACY INITIATIVES] ........................... 3
ORIENTATION
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Nur Foundation is an SECP Registered, Not for Profit Company, which has endowed the Nur Center for Research & Policy (NCRP). 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 factfinding. 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
NCRP CONSULTANCIES [TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRAININGS, RESEARCH PROJECTS AND ADVOCACY INITIATIVES] PROJECTS
DONORS
CURRENT STATUS
Developing Pay and Remuneration Structure for a national public health institute
USAID
Completed
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Developing a business/ development plan for a national public health institute in order to develop it into a National University of Public Health Sciences Preventing Child Violence: Use of Evidence to Strengthen Advocacy
USAID
Completed
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Technical Resource Facility Global Fund
Completed
Global Fund
Completed
Training Health Care Providers (HCP) on ART Development of National Framework and Manual on care for children affected by HIV Developing National Guidelines for Community and Home Based Care Training Manual for Community and Home Based Care
Global Fund Global Fund
Completed Completed
Global Fund
Disseminated
Global Fund
Disseminated
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 HRH Profiling for Punjab, Pakistan
Qatar Red Crescent Society
Completed
WHO
Disseminated
Strategies to improve the Health Services in Comoros
Qatar Red Crescent Society Asian Development Bank John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health UNICEF
Completed
Punjab Education Foundation AUSAID, DFID, British Council
Third round completed 2013 Ongoing
Training of NGO, CBO and CHBC Members on CHBC Guidelines
APLHIV
Completed
Training of Organizational Development and Management for NGOs in HIV/AIDS Sector HIV/AIDS Advocacy Seminar
APLHIV
Completed
APLHIV
Completed
Third party evaluation of the National Community Midwifery Program Rapid Situation Assessment and Development of BCC material that addresses reinforcement on adherence Undertaking Training of Trainers for CHBC Centre Staff
Healthcare Manpower Planning and Management Preventing Child Violence: Use of Evidence to Strengthen Advocacy Capacity Building of Midwifery Tutors (Training of Trainers) of Punjab teaching in Public Health Nursing Schools Capacity building of school teachers in the rural and peri urban areas of Punjab Education Foundation National Research Study on Nutritional Status of Adolescent Married and Unmarried girls for Research Advocacy Fund
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Completed Completed
Completed
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National Consultation on understanding the role of PLHIV Associations Training of NGO, CBO and CHBC Members on CHBC Guidelines Evidence Generation and Advocacy for Institutionalization of School Health Programme in the Punjab Province Family Planning and Reproductive Health Facilities Assessment in 15 Districts of Sindh
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APLHIV
Completed
NACP
Completed
DFID, British Council
Ongoing
Marie Stopes Society
Ongoing
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