Introduction
Purpose and use of this CD
Why this CD?
Many countries are developing, for the first time, VISION 2020 action plans to combat blindness. This CD has been produced to facilitate that planning exercise at the district, provincial, and national levels and to take the user stepwise through the entire planning process.
At every step, the CD provides links to relevant documents and articles (both older and more recent), web sites, slide shows, etc. Additionally, a checklist summarizing action to be taken is provided at each step. All material on this CD can be viewed, printed, and shared.
The information included here is - first of all - a guide to the planning process. Secondly, the CD provides links to a vast library of material on all aspects of blindness prevention - including reports from expert committees, scientific articles, manuals, data-collection templates, guidelines, software packages, and contact addresses - relevant to the planning process.
While this material is all in the public domain, the intention of this CD-ROM is to make it conveniently available in one place for those engaged in the VISION 2020 planning process. Most background material is presented in either .pdf or other easily accessible format.
Who will use this CD?
This interactive CD-ROM is intended for those who are involved in the advocacy, design, planning, implementation and monitoring of VISION 2020 action plans and is provided free of charge to national governments, professional organizations, nongovernmental organizations, eye-care managers, and others who implement eye-care programmes.
How to use this CD
Use the navigation buttons on top of the screen to move between the different frames on this CD. After reading through the text of the first frame, click “NEXT” to go to the next frame. Follow the normal sequence which will guide you stepwise through the entire planning process.
Click on “PREVIOUS” to go back one frame before the current one. If you wish to go directly to a particular page, click on ”CONTENTS” to open the contents page and then click on the topic field of your choice to move directly to that page. Click on “EXIT” to leave.
Click on “HELP“ for more technical details on the use of this CD. Click on “PRINT TEXT” if you wish to print the complete text of this tool kit as it appears on your screen.
Documents
WHO
Publications on the Prevention of Blindness ('97)
WHO
/ PBL scanned documents, available on the web
International Resource Centre for the Prevention of Blindness
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