Archive for: East Africa

PHE Minimum Package of Services

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The integrated Population, Health and Environment (PHE) approach is one of the key solutions to attaining sustainable development in the East Africa region. However, the need for guided PHE programming is a fundamental requirement in order to ensure that integrated services address the needs of communities and gaps in service delivery, hence LVBC produced the PHE Minimum Package of Services. The document is intended to be used by communities, local government level implementers, and stakeholders to plan and set priorities for implementation of PHE activities. It is also a framework for accountability and performance measurement in PHE programming.

Year: 2016

Source: Lake Victoria Basin Commission

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    National Consultative Meeting on the Draft EAC Regional Integrated PHE Strategy and Implementation Framework (2015-2020)

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    The Uganda National Consultative Meeting was convened in April 2015 to discuss and provide country comments to inform the development of the EAC Regional Integrated PHE Strategy and Implementation Framework (2015-2020). Participants at the meeting included representatives from the EAC Secretariat, representatives from several of Uganda’s Ministries, and civil society organizations such as Pathfinder International, Ecological Christian Organization, and Conservation Through Public Health-Uganda. The meeting was facilitated by the EAC Secretariat, the African Institute for Development Policy, and in-country experts.

    Year: 2015

    Source: East African Community

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      Integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Strategic Plan (2016-2021)

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      Following the 2007 International Population, Health, and Environment Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, The Eastern Africa region (EAC Partner States and Ethiopia) agreed to adopt the integrated PHE approach as a strategy for sustainable development. The purpose of the EAC Strategic Plan for 2016-2021 is to guide the EAC Partner States, EAC Organs and Institutions, civil society organizations, the private sector, and other development partners in their efforts to integrate and coordinate PHE interventions in the East African Community. The strategy discuses the vision, mission, goal, guiding principles, strategic objectives, interventions, and activities.

      Year: 2016

      Source: East African Community

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        Healthy Families, Healthy Forests, Roadmap to Population, Health and Environment Integration in Tanzania: Proceedings from a June 2005 Workshop

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        The first PHE workshop for Tanzania and other East African countries was held in June 2005 in Kigoma. It was jointly hosted by EngenderHealth/ACQUIRE Project and JGI/TACARE Project, and attended by 45 participants from East Africa and Madagascar. The goals of the workshop were to: (1) develop both a conceptual framework for PHE integration and an implementation strategy, and (2) develop a clear definition of the programmatic value-added and expected outcomes from implementing an integrated PHE approach. Workshop discussions focused on four areas: justifying, explaining, and clarifying the rationale and concepts that underlie PHE integration; receiving and discussing local and international (mainly Madagascar) experiences, including past, current and planned activities and case studies to illustrate and confirm the practical feasibility of PHE integration programs; practicing application of the theoretical and field experiences through small working group sessions; and discussing and clarifying plans for follow-up actions to move PHE integration forward in Tanzania and beyond.

        Year: 2005

        Source: EngenderHealth | Jane Goodall Institute

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          A Manual for Training Community Conservation and Health Workers (CCHWs)

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          This manual for training Community Health Workers ( CHWs), Village Health Teams (VHTs), Community Forest Associations (CFAs) and Community Wildlife Conservation workers (CWCWs) aims at building their capacity to accompany the households and communities in their efforts to improve their health and environmental conservation initiatives in an integrated manner. Recognizing that households and communities are fully engaged in addressing their own health and issues, the training intends to enable Community Health Workers, Village Health Teams and Environmental Conservation Workers to assist communities in assessing their situations, identifying gaps and reflecting on the causes of the gaps in order to take action. The objective of this manual is to build the capacity of CCHWs to lead their communities in health improvement and environmental conservation initiatives in terms of: disease prevention, health promotion, simple curative care, conservation of forests and protected areas, pollution control, gender empowerment and livelihood improvement. In this way, the CBWs will be able to motivate and advocate for the key household health and conservation practices in their areas of coverage.

          Each module has a set of trainer resources, participant materials, training evaluation tools, and reference materials for further reading. The training manual is designed for so that the curriculum can cascade national, regional, local/district and community levels across LVBC member states.

          Year: 2014

          Source: Lake Victoria Basin Commission

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            Community Outreach

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            Regional Efforts Towards Institutionalization of PHE

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            As part of the Short Course on Integrated PHE Programs, Regional PHE Program Coordinator Dr. Doreen Othero presents interlinked PHE challenges and reports on East African Community (EAC) regional efforts in institutionalizing the PHE approach with a view to mitigating the challenges.

            Year: 2017

            Source: East African Community | Lake Victoria Basin Commission

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              Short Course on Integrated Population-Health-Environment (PHE) Programs for a Sustainable Eastern and Southern Africa

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              A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was entered into between Pathfinder International and Population Studies and Research Institute, University of Nairobi to facilitate collaboration in enhancing knowledge and skills to develop and implement policies and evaluate integrated population-health-environment projects or other integrated development projects aimed at sustainable development, in Population Health and Environment (PHE). The goal of this short course training was to equip participants with skills to develop and implement policies and evaluate integrated population-health-environment projects or other integrated development projects aimed at sustainable development, in PHE. The report provides an overview of the training held January 23–February 1, 2017 in Kisumu, Kenya.

              Year: 2017

              Source: Pathfinder International

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                Rationale of Integrating “E” in P & H

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                An overview of Tuungane, a collaborative project in Tanzania implemented by Pathfinder International and The Nature Conservancy. It is addressing the connections between people, their health, and the environment in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem (GME) – part of Lake Tanganyika Basin.

                Year: 2017

                Source: The Nature Conservancy

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