Build capacity of NGOs in Africa on PHE Program Design

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1.2 Build capacity of NGOs in Africa on PHE Program Design

In order to catalyze interest in PHE among health and conservation organizations that have not yet received BALANCED training or hands-on technical support in Africa, a PHE Program Design workshop was planned in conjunction with the November 29 -December 3, 2011 International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar, Senegal. The training workshop was conducted as a post-conference workshop December 4-7, 2011 to attract individuals who also participated in PHE-related activities at the FP conference. BALANCED PFPI and CRC trainers used the Designing and Implementing Integrated Approaches to PHE: Workshop for Planners and Managers training materials during the workshop. These materials had been successfully used during the 2008 PHE Program Design workshop in Ethiopia a pre-BALANCED activity and for the BALANCED PHE South-to- South Exchange Study Tour held in the Philippines in 2010. For the Senegal workshop, BALANCED strengthened the training content by incorporating lessons learned from PHE implementation in Africa and the Philippines over the past three years. In addition, two individuals from the ExpandNet secretariat delivered a special session on how to apply the ExpandNetWorld Health Organization WHO scaling-up framework and tools to PHE. The four-day PHE Program Design workshop was designed for GO and NGO program planners and managers implementing conservation, FPRH or rural development activities who wish to develop integrated approaches to community development. The criteria to select workshop participants were the following: • Senior-level staff of a GO or NGO involved in conservationfisheriesmarine work • Interested in gaining more knowledge on how to design and implement community-based and integrated approaches to PHE that are sustainable and cost-effective • Have the skills to design a site-specific integrated PHE project or modify an existing project to include the PHE approach and formulate a follow-on andor monitoring plan • Strongly committed to implementing PHE • Involved in the implementation of a BALANCED Project PHE seed grant The objective of the Senegal training was to enable workshop participants to design PHE approaches that are replicable, sustainable, and generate impact on human and ecosystem health with a scale-up in mind. By the end of the workshop, participants would be able to: • Describe various categories of PHE integration and key advantages and disadvantages to each • Formulate a conceptual model that graphically depicts the demographic, social, environmental dynamics—and the relationships among these factors—at a local site • Identify opportunities to remediate and formulate specific objectives or short-term outcomes from the conceptual model • Formulate and use a results-chain methodology to select appropriate strategies and interventions to address root causal factors 11 • Describe a range of implementation models and PHE integration mechanisms • Apply an existing PHE tool to select appropriate monitoring and evaluation indicators and devise a simple monitoring plan Seventeen representatives 10 males and seven females from five countries Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania and The Gambia participated in the four-day PHE Program Design workshop. Of these, seven were from the Lake Victoria Basin HOPE-LVB Project. A significant number of individuals from NGO and donor groups also participated in segments of the workshop ranging from a half day to two days. During the workshop, the different countryproject teams prepared their own PHE conceptual frameworks, goals, objectives and strategies. They also developed monitoring and evaluation indicators, and action plans for implementation upon their return home. Each team presented its plan and received comments and suggestions from their peers and the facilitators. BALANCED staff followed up with selected participants after the workshop to help them finalize their conceptual frameworks, goals and objectives. Results from activity 1.2: • 17 representatives from NGOs implementing or new to PHE activities trained on PHE Program Design 1.1 • PHE program design workshop report with participants action plans • Five target organizations incorporating the PHE program design protocols into their work SO-1 • PHE Program design protocol replicated in two new countries Kenya and Uganda 3.1

1.3 Build capacity of PHE Ethiopia to conduct training activities