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Tostan Community Empowerment Program

Tostan. an African-based organization working directly with rural communities leading their own development, utilizes the “Community Empowerment Program (CEP) ” to effect change in these communities. The program uses a nonformal, human rights-based approach to education wherein it aims to empower communities with the knowledge and tools that will enable them to develop their own futures.

At the beginning of the Community Empowerment Program, which operates in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, and The Gambia, communities create 17-member democratically-selected Community Management Committees (CMCs) trained in project management and social mobilization skills by Tostan. These committees lead future development initiatives and continue to lead development projects that are relevant to their community needs, long after the community has completed the Tostan program.

In addition, CEP participants share their knowledge of human rights and responsibilities learned in class sessions to all interconnected groups and their social networks.

This program works to effect change in the areas of FGM/C and child forced marriage.

In the FGM sessions participants learn:about

  • Their right to health and their right to be free from all forms of violence
  • Responsibilities they share to protect these rights in their communit
  • The potential, immediate, and long-term harmful consequences of the practice and discuss ways to prevent these health problems in the future

In this way, that knowledge becomes the catalyst for positive change on a community, regional and national level.

Source: Tostan

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Transform/PHARE activités brise-glace pour atelier de communication – Workshop Ice-breaker Activities

Ces cinq activités brise-glace ont été créées pour être utilisées lors des ateliers SBC.

Chacun dure environ 20 minutes. Les sujets sont:

  1. Disposition pour une bonne communication – Aider les participants à comprendre l’importance d’une bonne communication ouverte et empathique.
  2. Parapluie Atomique – Encourager le respect de la différence en matière de culture, des valeurs, des croyances et des perceptions.
  3. Culture et Perception – Comprendre les différences de perceptions entre les cultures.
  4. Si j’etais…. – Mieux comprendre les différences de genre.
  5. Message recus de le famille – Encourager les participants à explorer les valeurs familiales qui influencent leurs perceptions et leurs comportements actuels.

These five ice-breaker activities were created for use during SBC workshops.

Each takes about 20 minutes. The topics are:

  1. Disposition for good communication – to emphasize the importance of empathy in good, open communication
  2. “Atomic Umbrella” – To encourage participants to respect differences in values, beliefs, and perceptions
  3. Culture and Perception – To understand the differences in perceptions among different cultures
  4. “If I was….” – To understand gender differences
  5. Messages Received from the Family – To encourage the participants to explore family values that influence their perceptions and their own actions

Source: USAID

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Effective Communications: Participant Handbook

This handbook contains material participants can use during and following training in effective communication. It is intended to be used by World Health Organization (WHO) staffers and trainers.

The range of topics covered by WHO’s risk communication training includes:

  • Communication basics
  • Community engagement
  • Introduction to emergency risk communication
  • Media communication
  • Material development
  • Pandemic communication
  • Partner communication
  • Social media communication
  • Social mobilization

Last modified: March 25, 2019

Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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    Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Equality and Health Toolkit

    Promundo and MenEngage Alliance with support from UNFPA produced this Toolkit that addresses strategies and lessons learned for Engaging Men and Boys in diverse themes such as Sexual and Reproductive Health; Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; Fatherhood; HIV and AIDS; Gender-based Violence; Advocacy and Policy, as well as addressing issues around Monitoring and Evaluation of this work.

    It includes tools and activities from organizations and programs from around the world which can be adapted and utilized by other organizations. The toolkit includes information on: Introduction/Gender Transformative Programming, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Fatherhood, HIV and AIDS, Gender-based Violence, Advocacy and Policy, and Monitoring and Evaluation.

    Last modified: March 25, 2019

    Language: English, French, Russian

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      Fact Sheet on Family Planning / Contraception

      This is an updated fact sheet from WHO, providing key facts, benefits, and a chart of modern and traditional FP methods.

      Last modified: March 25, 2019

      Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

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        Fake Medicines: Training for Action E-Learning Course

        This is an open access e-learning platform to illustrate the problem of fake medicines and how this crime is being addressed globally. It is divided into 7 modules that show how drugs are manufactured and marketed, how medicine counterfeiting is addressed and how to identify illegal online pharmacies or recognize authentic packaging.

        The program is intended for a wide audience, is free and available in French, English and Spanish. Users can let the platform guide them through a 45 minute program or choose from the various topics in the menu.

        Modules include:

        • Medicinal products: from the molecule to the finished product
        • The marketing of medicinal products
        • Counterfeiting worldwide
        • The internet problem
        • Anti-counterfeiting legislation
        • Anti-counterfeiting action
        • Technical solutions in the fight against this scourge

        Last modified: March 25, 2019

        Language: English, French, Spanish

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          Framework for Ensuring Human Rights in the Provision of Contraceptive Information and Services

          This document provides guidance on the different dimensions of human rights that need to be systematically and comprehensively considered in the rights-based provision of sexual and reproductive health services. The framework applies internationally recognized human rights laws to aspects of health care delivery and provides concrete examples of how rights dimensions must be respected, protected and fulfilled. The principles and standards are indivisible, and must be considered as a complete set in assessing services. In this instance, we apply the framework to the contraceptive services as an illustrative example.

          Last modified: March 25, 2019

          Language: English, French, Spanish

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            Global Health e-Learning Center

            In 2005, USAID’s Bureau of Global Health developed the Global Health eLearning (GHeL) Center to provide its worldwide mission-based health staff with access to state of the art technical global health information.

            The courses and certificate programs at the Center offer self-paced Internet-based courses that: 1. Provide useful and timely continuing education for the world’s premier global health professionals, 2. Present state-of-the-art technical content on key public health topics, and 3. Serve as a practical resource for increasing public health knowledge.

            This is a flexible learning program for busy professionals. Each course is authored by a subject matter expert or a team of experts, is highly focused, and can be completed in about one to two hours. Learners can access a course in multiple visits and a pick up where they left off at any time. Although courses are designed to be taken online, a printer-friendly format allows you to download and print course materials for further study. Some titles are available in languages other than English. Learners can complete individual courses, or a series of related courses as part of a Certificate Program. The courses combine technical content with current USAID programming principles, best practices, and case studies. Concrete examples stimulate a learner’s thinking so that they can to solve problems and apply best practices to programming in the field setting. The Center offers the best of international development implementation science for the health sector.

            Last modified: March 25, 2019

            Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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              Global Strategy to Stop Health-Care Providers from Performing Female Genital Mutilation

              This global strategy against medicalization of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been developed in collaboration with key stakeholders, including UN organizations and health-care professional bodies, national governments and NGOs. The strategy is intended for a broad audience of policy-makers in governments, parliamentarians, international agencies, professional associations, community leaders, religious leaders, NGOs and other institutions.

              The strategy to accelerate progress includes:

              1. Mobilize political will and funding
              2. Strengthen the understanding and knowledge of health-care providers
              3. Create supportive legislative and regulatory frameworks
              4. Strengthen monitoring, evaluation and accountability

              Last modified: March 25, 2019

              Language: Arabic, English, French

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                A Guide to Identifying and Documenting Best Practices in Family Planning Programmes

                This book serves as step by step guide for documenting best practices in family planning, since this kind of sharing enables persons and organizations working in the health sector to avoid reinventing the wheel; to improve performance and avoid the mistakes of others.

                Documenting and sharing best practices affords one the opportunity to acquire knowledge on lessons learned, how to improve and adapt strategies and activities through feedback, reflection and analysis, and implement large-scale, sustained and more effective interventions.

                Last modified: March 25, 2019

                Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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