KIT Information Portals
KIT portals provide access to full-text documents, e-newsletters, e-journals, news and events, and other free Internet resources. Both broad and specific portal themes are selected to reflect focal points of the different KIT departments.
Culture for Development
Culture, with its many definitions plays an important role in international development. This portal focuses on the role of museums and theatre in this context.
Gender, Citizenship and Governance
The focus is on women’s political participation & representation, women’s rights, institutional mainstreaming, and decentralization & local governance.
Governance & HIV and AIDS
This portal provides information on the mechanisms of interaction through which HIV and AIDS policies and strategies are developed, implemented, monitored and evaluated at different levels.
Health and Poverty
This portal contains information on health (system) policies and practices to improve equity in the health sector and contribute to poverty reduction. The portal is part of a wider programme, Information for Health Action (I4HA).
Laboratory Quality Strengthening
This portal provides background information for KIT's training programme on laboratory quality management, which enables laboratories in resource-constrained countries to improve the quality of their services.
Librarianship in the South
This portal supports capacity building for librarians in the global South and is relevant to information professionals.
Maternal Health - Lessons Learned
The portal shares examples of practical projects and initiatives that have been undertaken to contribute to Millennium Development Goal 5: Improving maternal health, particularly in developing countries.
mHealth in Low-Resource Settings
Mobile technology is increasingly being used to improve health-related services also in remote, resource-poor settings. This Portal provides insights into application areas, lessons learned and evidence gaps identified.
Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
Approaches to support decentralization processes, and strengthen institutions for rural economic development and public service delivery constitute the focus of this portal.
Rural Innovation Systems
The “innovation systems” approach is increasingly used to systematically promote multi-stakeholder dialogue and partnerships in rural development.
Value Chains for Development
Globalization is creating integrated supply chains that exclude poorer households. A targeted effort is needed to develop pro-poor value chains.