Facilitating project document

FACILITING PROJECT (administrative) Work plan project number	GPA3.2b: Capacity building through IBOSH Facilitating Project
Facilitating Project title	Internet Basic Occupational Health Services (iBOSH)
GPA Objective	GPA 3: to improve the performance of and acess to occupational health services
GPA Action	GPA Action 17: Core institutional capacities should be built at national and local levels in order to provide technical support for basic occupational health services, in terms of planning, monitoring and quality of service delivery, design of new interventions, dissemination of information, and provision of specialized expertise.
Priority Area	Priority Area 3.2: Adapt and disseminate curricula, training materials and training for international capacity building in OH.
Purpose of facilitating project	Training of various professionals e.g. in primary of public health care in delivering basic occupational health services (BOHS) where there is no, or very little, occupational health provision. iBOHS will build a community network and provide concrete support for existing and new initiatives on capacity building for BOHS. BOHS initiatives are usually in parts of the world or for working populations with no or limited prevention of accidents, occupational and work-related diseases, and work disability. In addition iBOHS will support access to reliable knowledge on OHS.
GPA Manager	Kaj Husman Leslie Nickels
CC Initiative Leader and contact information	Frank van Dijk, Coronel Institute AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands John Harrison, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
WHO responsible person and contact information
Collaborating centre partners with separate contributing PROJECTS (List CC, project title, project number, project leader, and email)	316m Cochrane Occupational Health Field 3.16o Occupational Health Service Support for small enterprises (SSE) to promote their ability to enhance health status of workers; Department of Occupational Health, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA), Republic of Korea 3.17g An online platform for capacity building for the BOHS; Center for Occupational Diseases/ Coronel Institute of Occupational Health AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3.18k OHS capacity development , Research, training, and service, University of Cape Town 3.19i Module of continuous training for occupational health physicians; Institute of Occupational Health and Safety, ISST, Tunisia 3.19m Support of peer-reviewed, Spanish-language Scientific Occupational Health Journals University of Texas, USA 3.19o Training trainers to provide better occupational health services to blue-collar working populations in the province of Riau, Indonesia; NUS, Singapore 3.19p International education and training in occupational health psychology, Univesrity of Nottingham During future meetings in Geneva we will decide on the usefulness of dividing the projects in subgroups e.g.: iBOHS 1 on materials: providing information and materials such as courses, curricula, modules, BOHS core curriculum, e-lessons, etc. iBOSH 2 on technical aspects; (inks to) technical support, innovations, etc IBOSH 3 on strategic topics: consultancy on iBOH models, services, policies, implementation, maintenance, etc iBOHS 4: on access to reliable knowledge such as : materials and training in evidence-based practice in OHS; repository of or links to evidence-based knowledge.
WHO Regional offices actively involved in this project (name and email)	WHO/RO Europe, Rokho Kim
Other partners for this Facilitating Project (employers, trade unions, other)	ICOH Board and many ICOH scientific committees especially on Education and Training; on Development; on OHS Research and Evaluation; on Communication.
Summary of the facilitating project (max 100 words)	In a growing number of countries Basic Occupational Health Services projects are being carried out to meet the huge need for capacity building and availability of expertise and materials. An international coordinating effort might have a great potential to foster existing and to support new initiatives. The iBOHS facilitating project will have the form of community network building and sharing online learning materials (lessons, iBOHS modules, iBOHS core curriculum) , organizing mutual concrete support mainly using the internet. iBOHS will also offer advices and learning materials on how to find reliable information on occupational health and safety, especially evidence-based materials in collaboration with the Cochrane Field Occupational Health.
Anticipated deliverables by 2012 from contributing projects	Platform for internet based technical assistance on capacity building for primary / public health care and for occupational health services which includes availability of educational materials (learning objects) e.g. core BOHS curriculum and modules, a network of experts for assistance, advices how to do, mutual support between iBOHS community network participants, advices and materials on evidence-based knowledge for OHS.
Critical Gaps to be filled in order to fulfil deliverables	Networking just started and has to be building up using ICOH and WHO networks and e.g. EASOM (European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine). Collaboration/integration with WHO facilitating project Education and Training Repository has to be determined. We might choose to develop a core group of iBOHS participants who take a share in developing facilities, and a more wide stakeholders group.
Barriers to success that must addressed	Funding is needed for manpower, for development and maintenance of web based digital facilities, and for face to face meetings.