The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) - Training Announcements
March 2009
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is an African institution dedicated to strengthening the capacities of organisations and individuals working in the field of health, HIV & AIDS, population and development in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of families in sub-Saharan Africa.
To achieve its mission, CAFS conducts courses and provides research and consultancy services from strategically located bases in East and West Africa, with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and a regional office in Lomι, Togo. Highly qualified professionals, who form a multi-disciplinary team within the fields of reproductive health, HIV & AIDS and population & development, provide its services.
The list of courses is as follows:
- Resource Mobilization & Proposal Writing, 11 15 May 2009
- Advocacy for Reproductive Health and HIV & AIDS, 8 -19 June 2009
- Supervising HIV & AIDS Services, 6 17 July 2009
- Advances in Behavior Change Communication for HIV & AIDS, TB and Malaria Programmes, 20 31 July 2009
- Promoting Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health and HIV&AIDS, 27 July 14 August 2009
- Impact Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV & AIDS Programmes, 10 - 21 August 2009
- Developing and Implementing an Effective Knowledge Management Strategy, 21 -25 September 2009
- Leadership and Management of Reproductive Health, and HIV & AIDS Programmes, 5 -16 October 2009
- Strengthening Multi-sectoral Prevention and Response Interventions to Sexual and Gender Based Violence, 9 -20 November 2009
By Darrel Sakwa.
Centre for African Family Studies,
Website: www.cafs.org
COURSE DETAILS:
Resource Mobilization and Proposal Writing
11-15 May 2009,
Every organisation strives to find the necessary funding to achieve its mission. In order to be sustainable, non-profit organisations must diversify their source of funding. Resource Mobilization and Proposal writing is an important part of the grant seeking process, yet it is a challenge to many organisations.
This one-week course is designed to provide skills to develop project proposals using logical framework, which encourages the discipline of clear and specific thinking throughout the proposal development process, and the skills for designing, implementing and evaluating an efficient resource mobilization campaign.
Course Focus
Understand concepts and practices of resource mobilization
Design a marketing strategy
Problem identification and definition
Proposal Development
Effective communication in fundraising
Designing a project logical framework
Developing a project monitoring and evaluation plan
Developing a project implementation plan
Project management and structure
Budgeting
Course
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
Design and implement a resource mobilization strategy
Design and write winning project proposals;
Develop project monitoring and evaluation plans;
Budget projects and programmes;
Transform an idea into a proposal using the logical framework approach.
Audience
The course is suitable for board members, directors, managers and programme officers who wish to diversify funding and resources for their organizations, which include government institutions NGOs and the private sector.
Tuition
US$1,0008
Advocacy for Reproductive Health and HIV & AIDS
8-19 June 2009,
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Advocacy is a concerted course of action targeted towards decision makers and using information strategically to change legal frameworks, policies, or programmes. It is a requisite tool for reproductive health and HIV & AIDS programme managers and service providers engaged in interventions to improve lives and the welfare of populations throughout the world.. As competition for scarce resources increases, advocacy skills become an important tool in influencing the decision-making process regarding resource allocation. This two-week course provides hands-on experience in designing, developing and advocacy strategy; implementing effective advocacy initiatives and setting indicators for monitoring and evaluating advocacy campaigns.
Course Focus
Identifying problems, policy issues and solutions
Setting advocacy goals and objectives
Identifying, segmenting and researching audiences
Developing and delivering advocacy messages
Using data strategically to strengthen advocacy efforts
Building alliances, networks and coalitions for advocacy purposes
Effective communication skills for advocacy
Mobilising resources for effective advocacy
Monitoring and evaluating advocacy efforts
Course
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Apply advocacy skills as a tool for change;
Increase the effective use of data as evidence and a tool for advocacy;
Design a comprehensive advocacy strategy and implementation plan
Design and implement a strategy for resource mobilization;
Encourage a democratic process by providing people with the skills to make their voices heard;
Influence policy
Audience
This course targets people who wish to improve and use advocacy skills to achieve their personal and organisational goals in reproductive health policies and programmes. They will be programme managers and staff of government departments and NGOs who wish to influence policies in their agencies and/or communities, professionals in institutions, associations and networks involved in advocacy, researchers interested in promoting the utilization of their findings, trainers and lecturers who work with advocates.
Tuition
US$1,500
Supervising HIV & AIDS Services
6-17 July 2009,
One of the primary responsibilities of a supervisor of HIV & AIDS services is to improve the performance of people. A supervisor of health services works to make sure that those in need of healthcare receive high quality services from those who provide them. Good supervision increases the competence and satisfaction of providers, which improves the performance of the facility, which in turn increases the well-being and satisfaction of the clients.
The purpose of this course is to assist the HIV & AIDS supervisor in using a performance and quality improvement approach to guide, assist, train, and encourage staff to improve their performance and provide high quality health services. It is organised around a step-by-step process that is useful for all supervisors, particularly the new supervisor. The process can be used to solve specific performance-related gaps in delivery of HIV & AIDS prevention, treatment care and support services and thereby improve health services. It can also be used to plan and initiate new HIV & AIDS services.
This two-week course focuses on supportive supervision techniques and provides updates on Voluntary Counseling and testing (VCT), Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT), Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and Management of opportunistic Infections (OIs). The participant will also be exposed to practical application of HIV & AIDS supervision protocols in clinical settings.
Course Focus
Overview of the HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan
Supportive supervision
Technical updates
Course
At the end of the course, the participant will be able to:
Work with HIV & AIDS providers;
Define desired performance for HIV & AIDS healthcare delivery;
Assess performance of HIV & AIDS providers;
Find root causes of performance gaps in HIV & AIDS services;
Select and implement appropriate interventions to improve performance of HIV & AIDS providers;
Apply supportive supervision skills while Working with HIV & AIDS providers;
Monitor and evaluate performance.
Audience
This course targets supervisors of HIV & AIDS services at national, provincial, district and facility levels. They will be programme managers and staff of National AIDS Control Councils, Ministries of Health and Non-governmental Organisations responsible for improving the performance of HIV & AIDS providers in clinical settings.
Tuition
US$1,500
Advances in Behaviour Change Communication for HIV & AIDS, TB and Malaria
20-31 July 2009,
Promoting positive behaviour change is a complex process requiring a thorough understanding of what motivates people to adopt or resist new behaviours. Behaviour change communication (BCC) approaches recognise that presenting facts alone does not guarantee behaviour change. Individuals are greatly influenced not only by their own knowledge about issues but also by social pressures exerted by their peers and the larger community including culture, societal norms, laws and policies. Human behaviour does not change in a linear manner. As people move to different stages or steps within the continuum of behaviour change, they require different information, messages and support. BCC strategies are therefore designed to accommodate the stage of behaviour adoption of an individual and to impart knowledge and skills and provide psychosocial support that individuals need to initiate and sustain change.
This course resonates with the recent advances and knowledge in the field of communication for health and social change and has strong focus on HIV, TB and Malaria programmes. Participants get an opportunity to learn from experts, analyse and critique promising or best practices in the field of development communication and learn from each other in order to enrich their expertise in designing and coordinating effective BCC interventions.
This course is designed to equip programme managers working in BCC programmes with skills to design and implement effective behaviour change communication interventions for HIV & AIDS , TB and Malaria programmes.
Course Focus
Understanding Behaviour and Behaviour change
Designing Effective Behaviour Change Communication Interventions
Promoting health literacy among communities
Developing Appropriate messages and Materials to promote Behaviour Change
Course
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Develop effective behaviour change communication approaches for HIV & AIDS prevention, care , treatment and support interventions;
Conduct behaviour analysis to identify motivators and inhibitors to behaviour change
Conduct communication, stakeholder and audience analysis
Develop and design appropriate messages and materials for health promotion
Audience
This course is designed for programme officers and managers working in the field of HIV & AIDS prevention and health education in various sectors including ministries of health, HIV & AIDS NGOs, reproductive health organisations, civil society and for-profit organisations. Programme Officers working for multi- and bi-lateral organisations that are responsible for providing technical assistance to national organisations or projects, will also benefit from this course.
Tuition
US$1,500
Promoting Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health and HIV&AIDS
27 July 14 August 2009
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CAFS is a regional collaborating centre of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its worldwide effort to improve the quality and scope of reproductive health. Launched in 1996, Operationalising Cairo and Beijing: A Training Initiative in Gender and Reproductive Health is a collaboration of the WHO Secretariat, Womens Health Project of the University of Witwatersrand and the Harvard School of Public Health.
The Initiative offers a three-week core curriculum in gender and rights in reproductive health and HIV & AIDS for senior programme managers, planners, and policy-makers. The course uses a unique format of core modules and regional case-material. The content has been adapted to highlight regional priorities and current controversies in diverse countries in relation to the MDGs and the ICPD and Beijing Plans of Action in the context of HIV & AIDS.
Course Focus
The gender concept and reproductive health
Gender analysis
Gender policy approaches
Social determinants of health
Gender mainstreaming in RH and HIV & AIDS programmes
Health systems analysis
Sexual and reproductive rights
Gender and HIV & AIDS
Course
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
conduct gender analysis in reproductive health and HIV & AIDS;
advocate for gender-responsive policies and programmes;
apply gender analysis to their own health systems, examining determinants of health, health policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation;
use gender sensitive research for policy and programme development.
Audience
The course is suitable for both senior and middle-level managers, planners and policy-makers. They will be individuals directly responsible for influencing or making policies to implement the MDGs and the
Tuition
US$2,200
Impact Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV & AIDS Programmes
10 - 21 August 2009,
HIV & AIDS programmes must show impact to ensure that the programs and services are effectively making a difference. Managers of these programmes must be held accountable, show impact, and carefully select areas of investments in order to maximize the impact of scarce resources. Thus, impact assessment has become a major step in the planning and implementation of HIV & AIDS programmes and monitoring of on-going projects has become an important internal management tool.
Unfortunately, the capacity to assess impact on an on-going basis and make the results of such assessment part of the continuous process of planning and implementing HIV & AIDS programmes is still weak in many developing countries. Although the demand for such training and skill building is very high, only few organisations offer such training in the region.
In response to this, CAFS has developed a two-week course to provide hands-on skills in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems and tools in HIV & AIDS programmes. The course provides training in fundamentals of monitoring and evaluation tools and techniques.
Course Focus
Monitoring and evaluation concepts and practices
Logical framework for programme design
Building performance monitoring and evaluation plans
Selecting indicators
Impact evaluation designs
Collecting data using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods and data analysis
Utilization and feedback of M&E results
Monitoring and evaluating behaviour change communication programmes
Monitoring and evaluating home-based care programmes
Monitoring and evaluating voluntary counselling and testing services
Monitoring and evaluating prevention of mother-to child transmission programmes
Monitoring and evaluating clinical care programmes
Monitoring and evaluating orphans and venerable children programmes
Course
At the end of the course the participants will be able to:
Develop indicators for the various HIV/AIDS interventions;
Create both quantitative and qualitative data collection tools;
Design and implement data collection and analysis for monitoring and evaluation;
Design and implement monitoring and evaluation plans;
Establish a monitoring and evaluation system.
Audience
This course targets professionals who wish to improve and use monitoring and evaluation skills to achieve their programme goals in HIV & AIDS. They will be programme managers, programme officers in charge of monitoring and evaluation, and staff of government departments and NGOs who wish to improve their reporting systems and promote impact assessment.
Tuition
US$ 1,500
Developing and Implementing an Effective Knowledge Management Strategy
21-25 September 2009,
An organisations knowledge is one of its most important assets. One of the biggest challenges within an organisation is how to manage, document, use, and share the knowledge that employees have. Institutional knowledge is frequently used ineffectively, misplaced, or lost. As a result, organisations lose time and productivity, and use additional resources to retrieve, re-use, and regenerate knowledge and information. An effective knowledge management strategy will enable an organisation to generate, codify, store, use, reuse, share, and disseminate knowledge inside and outside of the organization. This will lead to improved performance, time and resource management. Carrying out a knowledge management strategy will also enable staff to share best practices and lessons learned resulting in improved programs and services.
The purpose of this one-week course is to build the capacity of non-profit organisations in knowledge management by equipping participants with the knowledge, information, and skills to develop and carry out an effective knowledge management strategy.
Course Focus
The Concept and Principles of Knowledge Management
Conducting a Knowledge Audit
Identifying Knowledge Gaps and Barriers
Improving Research and Knowledge Generation
Systems for Capturing Tacit Knowledge for Documentation
Systems for Codifying, Storing, and Retrieving Knowledge
Using Communities of Practice
Documenting and Sharing Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Information Dissemination in a Global Environment
Defining KM Roles and Responsibilities
Aligning Knowledge Management to a Strategic Plan
Measuring the Impact of Knowledge Management Activities.
Course Ben efits
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Discuss the organizational benefits of knowledge management;
Carry out a knowledge audit
Develop systems to share best-practices between staff
Develop systems for codifying, storing, and sharing knowledge
Design, develop, and implement a cost-effective knowledge management strategy;
Measure a knowledge management strategy for impact.
Audience
This course is designed for senior and middle-level personnel of non-profit organisations; including civil society organisations, donor agencies, foundations, and international development agencies.
Tuition
US$1,000
Leadership and Management of Reproductive Health, and HIV & AIDS Programmes
5 16 October 2009,
The increasingly fast moving and competitive environment we face in the 21st century demands greater leadership and management from people in order to make organisations prosper. Without leadership, organisations stagnate, lose their way and eventually suffer the consequences. Various factors inside and outside the organisation affect performance and contribute to an organisation's results. Most of these factors can be influenced either positively or negatively by good or bad leadership and management.
Throughout
Course Focus
�� Leadership traits, characteristics and approaches
�� Vision: Key to Leadership covering Development individual vision and shared vision
�� Systems Thinking and seeing the big picture
�� Strategic leadership and management
�� Relationship management:
�� Team building
�� Negotiation skills
�� Conflict management
�� Communication
�� Coaching and mentoring
�� Leading change and development
�� Good governance
�� Developing sustainable programmes
�� Resource mobilization
�� Becoming a learning organisation
�� Performance management
Course
At the end of the course the participants will be able to:
Enhance institutional visionary leadership and management
Lead organizational change, development and sustainability
Identify and mobilize resources for sustainable programmes
Appreciate governance issues and take appropriate action to enhance governance of their organization
Develop capabilities to manage relationship in the organization especially in respect to team building, negotiation and conflict management, coaching and mentoring, and communication
Audience
This course is designed for senior programme managers and chief executives of governments and NGOs involved in Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and related health sectors. District, national or regional RH and HIV/AIDS senior programme managers working with Ministries of Health, national or international non-governmental organisations are excellent candidates for this course.
Tuition
US$1,500
Strengthening Multi-sectoral Prevention and Response Interventions to Sexual and Gender Based Violence
9-20 November 2009,
Gender-based violence is a pervasive public health and human rights issue throughout the world. The consequences of gender-based violence to women, their children, families and communities are a major obstacle to achieving gender equality and enjoyment of universal human rights. Incidences of sexual and gender based violence are particularly rampant among populations affected by armed conflicts. While international declarations and frameworks with recommendations on how to deal with perpetrators of gender-based violence exist, they are, by themselves, not adequate to change peoples attitudes and practices, which in many communities are reinforced by gender norms and power relations.
Multisectoral and interagency prevention and response interventions to gender based violence should adhere to internationally agreed guiding principles of safety, confidentiality and respect of the survivors. In addition, programmes should incorporate the minimum recommended response services necessary to reduce harmful consequences of gender based violence and prevent further injury, trauma and harm to survivors.
Prevention interventions involve challenging peoples attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and behaviours related to gender relations, and rights require sensitivity to social dynamics, patience and respect for cultural diversity. Response interventions on the other hand, focus on the survivors of gender based violence to address the immediate health needs and long-term social reintegration processes. Programme managers and health care service providers, should have the technical capacity to engage communities to examine and challenge cultural values and norms while at the same time being careful not to create misunderstanding, unnecessary tensions and antagonism.
This two-week course provides practical skills in designing and implementing interagency and multisectoral programmes and interventions to respond to gender based violence in the community and especially among populations affected by armed conflict.
Course Focus
�� Understanding gender-based violence and contributing factors
�� Multisectoral prevention and response strategies to gender based violence
�� Interagency coordination of prevention and response interventions
�� Clinical management and care of survivors of gender-based violence
�� Counseling survivors of gender based violence
�� Advocacy for coordinated community response to gender based violence
�� Training and facilitation skills to build capacity of health care workers and community change agents
Course
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
�� Critically examine concepts of gender and power relationships in the context of sexual and gender-based violence
�� Analyse how gender norms, perceptions of masculinity and femininity are socially constructed and their relationship to gender based violence
�� Implement the recommended strategies and standards for interagency, multisectoral prevention and response to gender based violence
�� Effectively manage sexual and gender based violence survivors
�� Promote and apply culturally sensitive participatory approaches to developing and implementing interventions for prevention and response to gender-based violence;
Audience
This course is suitable for programme managers/coordinators and health care providers responsible for developing and implementing interventions to address sexual and gender based violence in different contexts. They will include staff from humanitarian organisations, health institutions, civil society organisations, development partners and technical assistance agencies.
Tuition
US$1,500
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