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.


Mobile Museumbus - by Paul Faber

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.


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Gender Equity in Certified Chains  

This Portal includes resources related to gender, standards and certified value chains, primarily in the agricultural sector.


Portal Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Gender, Citizenship and Governance

The focus is on women’s political participation & representation, women’s rights, institutional mainstreaming, and decentralization & local governance.

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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.

Woman getting vaccinated. Photo from Flickr: © Curt Carnemark / World Bank

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 in low- and middle-income countries. The portal is part of a wider programme, Information for Health Action (I4HA).

Laboratory in Uganda. Photo by KIT BR.

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.

Library in Sierra Leone

Librarianship in the South 

This portal supports capacity building for librarians in the global South and is relevant to information professionals.

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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.

HIV/AIDS SMS quiz - (c) TTC

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. 

Queue outside polling station in Nouakchott, Mauritania; European Communities

Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Capacity strengthening for decentralization and participation in local governance can improve pro-poor local economic development, basic services, natural resource management, and land tenure.

KIT Bulletin 350: Cultivating a healthy enterprise: developing a sustainable medicinal plant chain. By J. Belt, A. Lengkeek, and J. van der Zant

Rural Innovation Systems

The “innovation systems” approach is increasingly used to systematically promote multi-stakeholder dialogue and partnerships in rural development.


Value chain: producers, processors, retailers & consumers in an integrated supply chain

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.



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