Sugar cane fields in the Gusap region, PNG. Photo: L Renkin

Burnet provides technical assistance to ‘developing’ country governments (over the years we have assisted the government of the Lao PDR, Cambodia, Philippines, East Timor, India, Burma, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, PNG and 14 Pacific Island Countries, Ghana, Congo, Senegal, Eritrea and Uganda). 

Burnet also provides technical assistance to a range of development organisations including multilateral organisations such as UNDP, UNICEF, WHO and regional organisations such as ASEAN and SPC and International NGOs such as World Vision, Plan International, Save the Children, Australian Red Cross, World Concern and the International Rescue Committee and donor government (e.g. AusAID, USAID and DFID). 

This work is done via short-term consultancies and typically involves regional and national policy and strategy development and program development, review and evaluation.

Below are some examples of consultancies carried out by our staff in recent years:

Marie Stopes International Australia

Desk  Review of China Family Planning Association Model and Training Materials for Integration of RH/FP Services with HIV/AIDS Prevention, 2007 for Marie Stopes International Australia.  Ms Lisa Natoli

OXFAM

Training: Communications, Training and Research Methods for Community Health, Dili, Timor Leste 2007, for Oxfam Australia. Ms Clare Murphy

Workshop: Health Promotion and Behaviour Change, Dili, Timor Leste 2007, for Oxfam Australia. Ms Clare Murphy

Save the Children

Evaluation of the Creating Access to Alternative Life Choices for Children and Women of the Daulatdia Brothel Project [CAAB], Goalundo, Bangladesh 2007, for Save the Children Australia. Ms Marion Brown

Project Design Document for Child Advocacy Project for Save the Children Australia – Solomon Islands, 2005. Ms Marion Brown

Facilitation of IEC Development with Youth Outreach and Child Rights Programs. PNG, 2005 for Save the Children in PNG.  Ms Lisa Natoli

Stakeholder Analysis & Information Gathering to Inform Design Phase of Child Right Project, Phase II, Vanuatu. Save the Children Australia 2004. Ms Marion Brown

Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)

Finalisation of the 2007 Pacific Regional Strategy Implementation Plan (PRSIP) joint work plan, Pacific Region 2007, for Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). Ms Clare Murphy

UNICEF

EPI Training of Trainers Course, UNICEF, Dili, Timor-Leste. July 2007. Dr John Clements

Training Needs Assessment and development of training curriculum for EPI training.  UNICEF, Dili, Timor Leste. March 2007. Dr John Clements

A review of the UNICEF Vaccine Independence Initiative in Pacific Island Countries. UNICEF Pacific Office, Fiji. May 2006. Dr John Clements

Planning a vaccine coverage survey – PNG UNICEF Consultancy.  Feb 2005. 

Meeting on integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) training materials. WHO African Region, Harare, Zimbabwe. March 2005. Dr John Clements

Executing a vaccine coverage survey – PNG. UNICEF Consultancy. Aug 2005. Dr John Clements

UNAIDS

Myanmar (Burma) Joint United Nations Programme of Support for HIV in Myanmar. Facilitator and writer for development of this plan and programme.  18 June – 13 July 2007. Mr Bruce Parnell

ASEAN Consultation on Mobility and HIV, Pnom Penh, Cambodia, Facilitator of workshop, 8-10 February 2006. Mr Bruce Parnell

Myanmar (Burma) National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS 2006-2010, Technical Adviser on process for participatory development of the plan. 12 weeks, February – June 2006. Plan approved by Government of Myanmar December 2006. Mr Bruce Parnell

ASEAN consultation to help develop the Third ASEAN Work Programme on HIV and AIDS (2006-2010). Nov/Dec 2005. Mr Bruce Parnell.

USAID

ASEAN, Preparation of Operational Plan on HIV & AIDS for 2007-2008 (Sept 2006). Operational Plan approved by Heads of State of all ten ASEAN Member Countries, at ASEAN Summit, Cebu, Philippines, January 2007. Mr Bruce Parnell

WHO

Meeting on integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) training materials. WHO Geneva. July 2005. Dr John Clements

Assessing progress of the African Region in achieving its 2005 immunization goals. WHO African Region, Harare, Zimbabwe.  August 2005. Dr John Clements

Quality of EPI surveillance data in the SEARegion. WHO South East Asia Regional Office, Delhi. December 2005. Dr John Clements  

Support to development of WHO Western Pacific Regional Strategy for Child Survival, Manila May 2005, for WHO Western Pacific Regional Office. Dr Chris Morgan

Survey on coverage and impact of child survival interventions in Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby December 2004, for WHO Western Pacific Regional Office. Dr Chris Morgan

Review of health sector reforms in Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek and London 2005, for the WHO/World Bank High-level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals. Dr Chris Morgan

Other short term consultancies

Organisational Capacity Assessments of Monaso Member Organisations; Reducing Community Vulnerability To HIV/AIDs Program, Manica & Sofala Provinces, Mozambique 2007. Ms Marion Brown

Evaluation of the Southern Barkly Grow Well program, NorthernTerritory, 2006 for Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation. Ms Marion Brown