Dear HIFA colleagues,
We are delighted to welcome Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (Bangladesh) as our 27th HIFA Partner.
'Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV) work to sensitize different stakeholders how to reduce the vulnerability of becoming disabled during disaster and how to handle the people with disabilities during and after disaster. SARPV is an advocacy organization and we do advocacy with policy makers, local government, GOs and NGOs, community people, family members of disabled people in order to ensure the rights and accessibility of peoples with disabilities.... SARPV adopted Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) strategy for main streaming the persons with disability in the society. Over the years we have changed our approaches from CBR and develop self help group consist of peoples with disabilities so that they can raise their voice strongly and claim their rights from the service providers.'
HIFA profile: https://www.hifa.org/support/supporting-organisations/social-assistance-...
SARPV website: https://sarpv.org/
Our contact at SARV is Shahidul Haque, Founder and CEO. We look forward to working with Shahidul and his team to support their work and accelerate progress towards universal access to reliable healthcare information.
We invite other organisations to join our partnership initiative:
HIFA PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE
The HIFA Partnership Initiative was introduced in January 2025 to promote visibility and networking among organisations that provide practical support for HIFA's work. Further details, including Partner benefits and a full list of current Partners, are available here: www.hifa.org/support/partners
The logos of all HIFA Partners are recognised on the HIFA home page: www.hifa.org
If YOUR organisation is willing to consider practical support to accelerate progress towards universal access to reliable healthcare inforamtion, please email me: neil@hifa.org
Best wishes, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org