Project Management
The guiding force of any successful initiative
is project management, which involves the
careful planning and allocation of resources to
meet objectives. WLF provides assistance with
the development and implementation of lung
health programs, while helping to cultivate
in-country capacity to assume project
management functions.
Latin America: Based in Mexico City, the new Latin America Resource Center supports and develops tobacco control capacity in Spanish and Portuguese. This office helped establish a national tobacco control department in Mexico, supported the largest civil society organization in Brazil to advance its tobacco control agenda, and developed a technical training on pack warnings. It also worked to increase funding, strengthen capacity, and monitor activities throughout the region.
Russia: The recently opened Moscow-based resource center administered a grant to the Ministry of Health to establish a national tobacco control program. Other grants supported an emerging civil society coalition of tobacco control organizations, which raised awareness through media activities.
South East Asia: Key activities include grant monitoring, capacity building through workshops in management, policy development and media, and technical assistance to strengthening tobacco control networks. The office assisted with smoke-free initiatives in India and is poised to assist with advocating for tobacco control policies in Bangladesh and Indonesia.
Middle East: The new Cairo resource center has worked closely with country partners to address barriers to building tobacco control capacity in the region. Cairo-based staff have also developed relationships with the Ministries of Health in Pakistan and Egypt, offered management and leadership courses and supported Arabic language translation of economics papers, factsheets and other materials. They have also assisted with mass media programs.
Spotlight: Project Management
China: New staff and locum technical experts assisted with the 2008 Smoke-Free Olympics, participated in capacity building initiatives, supported grant-funded organizations and BI partners with program implementation, and developed technical guidelines for making health care institutions 100% smoke-free.Latin America: Based in Mexico City, the new Latin America Resource Center supports and develops tobacco control capacity in Spanish and Portuguese. This office helped establish a national tobacco control department in Mexico, supported the largest civil society organization in Brazil to advance its tobacco control agenda, and developed a technical training on pack warnings. It also worked to increase funding, strengthen capacity, and monitor activities throughout the region.
Russia: The recently opened Moscow-based resource center administered a grant to the Ministry of Health to establish a national tobacco control program. Other grants supported an emerging civil society coalition of tobacco control organizations, which raised awareness through media activities.
South East Asia: Key activities include grant monitoring, capacity building through workshops in management, policy development and media, and technical assistance to strengthening tobacco control networks. The office assisted with smoke-free initiatives in India and is poised to assist with advocating for tobacco control policies in Bangladesh and Indonesia.
Middle East: The new Cairo resource center has worked closely with country partners to address barriers to building tobacco control capacity in the region. Cairo-based staff have also developed relationships with the Ministries of Health in Pakistan and Egypt, offered management and leadership courses and supported Arabic language translation of economics papers, factsheets and other materials. They have also assisted with mass media programs.
WLF Project Management by Numbers
- A team of 18 communications staff provides technical assistance with the best practice implementation of tobacco control mass media campaigns worldwide.
- $56.6 million disbursed over 2007 and 2008 to support a major international grants program managed by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), as well as activities by the World Health Organization and the Framework Convention Alliance.
- About 1,500 fewer infants to die immediately following birth, and 350 fewer women in childbirth each year, as a result of WLF funding and project management in rural Tanzania.