Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) provides training, research and support services to state and civil society organisations. TARSC is a learning and knowledge organization, with a particular focus on skills building and methods to support community based work, and with a commitment to long term capacity building in the public sector and in civil society.

Equity Watch work in east and Southern Africa TARSC is the cluster lead in EQUINET for monitoring and analysis of equity in health in the Equity Watch, working with technical institutions, governments and civil society in east and southern Africa. To date Equity Watch reports have been produced in five countries, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda and Kenya. The reports assess progress in a number of dimensions of equity in heath. The reports are available on this website and at EQUINET http://www.equinetafrica.org. They raise areas for action to ensure redistributive health systems and in wider policies to address the social determinants of health

Global Health Diplomacy TARSC is a member of the Global Diplomacy Network, covering heath diplomacy issues globally, contributes to the Global Diplomacy Monitor and is a part of a consortium of institutions supporting work on global heath diplomacy in east and southern Africa. For mre information contact admin@tarsc.org or download publications at the Global Diplomacy Network http://www.ghd-net.org/ or EQUINET website http://www.equinetafrica.org

Barriers and facilitators to maternal and child health services TARSC and CCORE-UNICEF are implementing a community based assessment of the facilitators and barriers (perceived and measured) to access to maternal, neonatal and child health services in women and in children under five years in Zimbabwe. The programme will include capacity building of community based researchers.

Health literacy and Participatory Research on health worker- community interactions TARSC worked with HEPS Uganda and Lusaka District Health Team Zambia in 2011 to build health literacy capacities and to use participatory research approaches to strengthen communication between health workers and communities at primary care level. Reports of the activities are on this website under ‘publications’. We are currently reviewing basline and follow up assessments to assess how far the interventions have made measurable improvements in the functioning of health systems for both health workers and communities. The work is being done with support from Cordaid and under the umbrella of EQUINET.