Resources for Links

THET offers the following support and resources to Health Links. If you would like additional information on funding opportunities and special conference reports, please sign up to our mailing list or register your Link.

International Health Links Manual
THET’s International Health Links Manual provides guidance, shares experiences and offers examples of good practice from those directly involved in Links.

Funding Information about the International Health Links Funding Scheme and fundraising tips.

Evaluation and Learning
Tools to assist Health Links with their Monitoring and Evaluation and learning from others.


Guidance for Links
A range of resources for Health Links giving guidance on all aspects of running a Health Link.

  • Photography Guidelines for Links – This guideline looks at some of the some of the ethical considerations that need to be made when planning to take photographs of your Links programmes.
  • Risk and Security Guidelines - These guidelines provide UK Link partners with information, commonly-used terms and tools to assist in the development of their own risk management procedures for undertaking initiatives or managing trips overseas.
  • Technical Assistance Report - A report on the recent debate on Technical Assistance (TA), important issues and how THET fits in. Notes from the launch of the TA report at the House of Lords on 18 March 2009, can be downloaded here.

Practical Information
Including visas, travel insurance, making donations overseas and shipping equipment overseas.

Publications about THET
The Role of the Health Sector in Wider State-Building: A discussion paper – This paper explores the domains in which the health sector can help build capacity and legitimacy in fragile states.  It uses THET’s work in Somaliland as a case study. To find out more about the Somaliland Programme click here.

If you can not find what you are looking for contact us on info@thet.org or on +44 (0) 207 290 3892