A resource centre can:
1. Make information accessible
- collect and organise materials
- provide access to materials that are up-to-date and relevant to users
- provide a pleasant environment for learning and training
2. Encourage the use of information
- assist users to find relevant information and suggest how they can use it in their work
- provide materials to support training and health promotion
- provide information to those responsible for planning, managing and implementing health programmes, including district health management teams and community groups
- produce information packs and resource lists
- organise participatory workshops that use materials as tools for problem-solving
- work with teachers and trainers to identify resource materials for training activities
- offer an information and enquiry service
- develop ways to reach potential users
3. Produce materials
- work with health teams and community groups to document their experience
- adapt, translate and produce health learning materials
4. Strengthen links with other organisations
- list local, national, regional and international organisations working in health and related fields
- develop contacts between organisations working in similar fields, such as the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Water and Sanitation, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community organisations
- identify other sources of information
