11 in-person technical assistance, especially in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Ghana. This support is
designed to ensure that ownership of the PHE process is transferred to our partner organizations. Because of the continuous post-training support over the last couple of years, champion
organizations in Zambia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and the Philippines are already taking over many of the training activities on their own, which is a key component of our hand-over strategy.
Toward this end, we also supported the participation of two PHE champions in CRC-CI’s June 2012 course: “Building Coastal Community Resilience: Population, Health and Environment
Dimensions
” to expand their skills on PHE and enable them to serve as training resources during a similar course in East Africa and once the Project ends.
1.1 Build capacity of NGOs in the Philippines on PHE Program Design
Activity completed. See BALANCED semi-annual report 7.
1.2 Build capacity of NGOs in Africa on PHE Program Design
Activity completed. See BALANCED semi-annual report 7.
1.3 Build capacity of PHE Ethiopia to conduct training activities
In our Year 4 workplan, we agreed to provide modest financial support and technical assistance to the PHE Ethiopia Consortium to conduct a refresher training workshop on PHE with its
member organizations. PHE Ethiopia and several of its member organizations have benefited from BALANCED capacity building events and technical assistance for the past three years. The
objective of the Year 4 BALANCED support was to provide some assistance, but encourage the network to seek additional funding for its training activities and to employ some of its member
organizations implementing successful PHE activities as co-facilitators so that the network can plan and implement capacity-building events on its own. During the last reporting period,
BALANCED staff provided input on PHE Ethiopia’s training plan, workshop logistics and other preparatory arrangements prior to the refresher training workshop.
In this reporting period, BALANCED provided 4,000 towards the cost of the PHE refresher training and continued to offer virtual support to PHE Ethiopia on workshop planning. In
February, Dr. Ricky Hernandez, BALANCED East Africa Consultant EAC, traveled to Addis Ababa and provided technical support during the workshop, assisting the facilitators in the
background, and providing input into the workshop sessions as needed. The three-day PHE Implementers Knowledge Sharing and Learning Workshop was held from February 1-3, 2012.
The objectives of the training were to enable PHE Ethiopia’s members to:
• Strengthen their PHE programs through mutual learning and action planning, • Share experiences with PHE design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and sharing
results in Ethiopia, • Establish a conceptual framework and shared indicators for PHE in Ethiopia, and
• Lay the foundation for tracking the impacts of PHE in Ethiopia
12 Forty five representatives from nongovernmental organizations NGOs implementing, or
wanting to implement, PHE activities participated in the workshop. During the workshop, participants agreed on a shared vision for PHE in Ethiopia and developed a PHE conceptual
framework for PHE in Ethiopia. They also conducted an organizational analysis of their successes and weaknesses; prepared action plans for strengthening each participant’s PHE
program; and generated a list of common indicators that key PHE implementers can use to “Tell the Story of PHE in Ethiopia.”
Results from Activity 1.3:
• One BALANCED trainee training others on PHE 1.2
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1.4 Provide on-going support to BALANCED trainees and PHE practitioners
