Subject: IHD Information Sharing
From: Diana Silimperi <[email-masked]>
To: Diana Silimperi <[email-masked]>
Cc: Christina Ramey <[email-masked]>, Liz Nugent <[email-masked]>, Sarah Armstrong <[email-masked]>, Mark McEuen <[email-masked]>, Margarita Fernandez <[email-masked]>, John Palen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:59:40 +0000

Dear IHD Colleagues!

In our ongoing effort to provide more frequent and regular updates about IHD activities, I wanted to provide an overview of regularly scheduled events/communications which aim to ensure IHD-wide sharing and learning take place.

Event/

Communication

Audience

Purpose

Frequency

Next Event/

Communication

Chief of Party Meeting

Chiefs of Party, Project Directors, Telecommuters

Reunion to educate, share, celebrate, and showcase One Global Abt

Annual

June 2014, date TBA

Global IHD Staff Meeting

All IHD Staff

Opportunity for all IHD to come together to hear Division updates, ask questions, and  learn more about 1-2 highlighted projects (successes and challenges)

Quarterly

October 31

Technical Work Group (TWG) Community Sites on Abt Global Intranet (AGI)

All IHD staff

Online meeting place for sharing documents, calendar of events,  project success stories,  etc.

Available on your laptop or mobile device

Health Finance and Economics Community currently operational with 12 additional pilot workspaces to be rolled out in October

TWG Brown Bag Presentations

All IHD staff

Communicate SOTA practices within each of Abt’s 13 TWGs

Bi-monthly

Service Delivery and Quality Improvement: September 13, 2013

Health Finance and Economics:

September 25, 2013

In October:

Family Planning and Reproductive Health: and Governance

Communities of Excellence (COEs) COEs are list serves that go to anyone in Abt interested in a particular technical area

All IHD Staff

via COE list serve

Updates on upcoming conferences and new literature, impacts from field, opportunities for cross collaboration between projects and technical areas

On-going

On-going

Annual IHD State of the Art (SOTA) Report

All IHD Staff, proposal teams

Information on new technical approaches with examples of their application along with key references

Annual

Annual IHD SOTA 2014: to be released to IHD staff May 2014

IHD Monthly Update by email

All IHD Staff

Updates on IHD highlights

Monthly

Mid-September

Please keep the feedback and ideas coming in for improved communication and sharing of information within the Division, and we’ll keep responding!

Best

Diana