October 16-17, 2000 A workshop on Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) issues in the HIPC and PRSP process was held on October 16-17, 2000 in Washington, DC. This training session aimed to take stock of the existing experience, share lessons learned, get better acquainted with the various instruments recently developed (including rapid guidelines for I PRSP), and discuss necessary improvements in the processes and suggest practical next steps for better working together this fiscal year. The health and poverty group in WHO and other partners such as UNICEF and UNFPA joined the training session to start building common understanding and discuss future collaboration, particularly regarding capacity building in the countries. AgendaMonday, October 16, 2000
Morning: Available Technical Resources | 8: 45 – 9: 00 | Welcome address, Ok Pannenborg | | 9: 00 – 9: 30 | Introductions and expectations | | 9: 30 – 10: 45 | Rapid Guidelines for Health, Nutrition and Population Issues in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, Abdo Yazbeck and Agnes Soucat | | 10: 45 – 11: 00 | Tea break | | 11: 00 – 11: 35 | (i) Introduction to the PRSP Sourcebook Chapter, Abdo Yazbeck
(ii) Introduction to the Sector Analysis Templates Tool, Agnes Soucat
(iii) Introduction to Fact Sheets and possible uses, Dave Gwatkin | | 11: 35 – 12: 20 | Open discussion on the available technical resources to staff | | 12: 20 | Lunch break | | 1: 00 | Brown Bag presentation on selected empirical tools (BIA and OOPS), Adam Wagstaff |
Monday, October 16, 2000
Afternoon: Progress on HNP work on HIPC/ PRSP in Africa Region | 2: 00 – 2: 30 | Overview of the progress of the Africa Region regarding HNP inputs into HIPC documents and PRSP. Agnes Soucat | | 2: 30 – 3: 00 | Case study of Cameroon: PRSP and HIPC what is expected from the HNP sector? Brendan Horton | | 3:00 – 3:30 | Case study of Guinea and Mauritania: Overall organization of the PRSP process and specific problems encountered by the HNP sector. Antoine Simonpietri | | 3:30 – 4:15 | Case study of Burkina Faso: The development of Human Development (HD) inputs into HIPC documents in Burkina Faso: process and follow-up issues. Denise Vaillancourt | | 4:15 – 5:30 | Open discussion: building blocks for the full PRSP: hurdles to preparing HNP sector work |
Tuesday, October 17, 2000 (optional)
Morning: Clinics | 9: 00 – 9: 45 | Do’s and Dont’s in HIPC, Agnes Soucat | | 9: 45 – 10: 30 | Analyzing LSMS data, Adam Wagstaff | | 10: 30 – 11: 15 | HNP sourcebook: questions and answers, Abdo Yazbeck | | 11: 15 – 12: 00 | Communicable diseases and HIV/ AIDS in HIPC/ PRSP, Rob Hecht, UNAIDS (videoconference) |
Tuesday, October 17, 2000 (optional)
Afternoon: Interagency collaboration Discussion on next steps with colleagues from WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS and others on the topics below. Moderator: Ousmane Bangoura | 2: 00 – 3: 00 | Health and Poverty working group; coordination and support at country level; capacity building | | 3: 00 – 4: 00 | Regional support; Regional workshop; Training; and Funding | | 4:00 | Next steps |
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