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I. Letter from Arlette Campbell White
Dear Friends,
I hope this edition of the newsletter finds you well. We have a great deal to tell you—about our recently completed distance learning course on gender, health and poverty, about our upcoming Core Course and Population and Reproductive Health Resources Fair but before we do I would like to welcome our new readers. During the past few months our readership has greatly increased. We think this is due to announcements in other e-newsletters such as The Drum Beat. If you can let us know how you learned about our newsletter, we would welcome the feedback. Since many of you are new to this newsletter we thought it would be best to begin by reminding everyone who we are and what we do. So, without further ado, I welcome you to this edition of the newsletter and, as usual look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Arlette Campbell White and the Adapting to Change Program Team
II. Who we are and what we do
What do we do?
WBI’s Adapting to Change Learning Program on Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform is a capacity building and knowledge program that aims to improve global reproductive health outcomes in accordance with the International Development Goals articulated at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 and subsequent “Plus-5” conference. The Program is based on an intensive three-week training course provided annually in Washington, D.C. designed for participants from Bank client countries as well as Bank and donor agency staff.
The first annual Adapting to Change Global Core Course on Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform took place in Washington in 1999. From this core training, the Adapting to Change Program has expanded to include the first Distance Learning Core Course in Cairo, Egypt, in 2000, a regional Core Course in Francophone Africa held in January/February 2001, and most recently, two Distance Learning Courses entitled "New Agendas for Poverty Reduction Strategies: Integrating Gender and Health"("Genre et Santé: Nouvelles approches en matière de stratégies de réduction de la pauvreté"). Delivered in eight countries in French and English in the two sub-regions of Africa in the first half of 2001, these distance learning courses, which met with wide acclaim, will be repeated in October and November 2001.
The third annual Adapting to Change Global Core Course will take place in Washington in September 2001. Although the deadline for applications has passed, there are still a few places available. For further information about the Adapting to Change Program, training events and training materials, log onto our website http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/healthandaids/ or contact Arlette Campbell White (Email: awhite1@worldbank.org Tel: 202 473 3301, Fax: 202 522 0638) or Laura Raney (Email: lraney@worldbank.orgTel: 202 458 8912, Fax 202 522 0638). Future activities: We are planning to roll out programs in the following regions in the coming months: Latin America and the Caribbean, Lusophone and Anglophone Africa, as well as expanding the Global Core Course on the internet.
Who we are
In our first electronic newsletter of May 2000, we introduced our team: Debra Beattie, Instructional Designer; Eugene Boostrom, Senior Public Health Specialist; Arlette Campbell White, Senior Population Specialist; Nicole Fults, Program Assistant; Jo Hindriks, Research Analyst; Tom Merrick, Senior Population Advisor; Carrie Zwicker, Operations Analyst; Laurence Sage and Marie-Lily Delion, Participant Admissions; Paul Shaw, Lead Economist; and Abdo Yazbeck, Senior Economist. Since then, we’ve welcomed several new members:
Gilles Dussault, Senior Health Specialist
Gilles joins us through a collaborative arrangement with the Canadian International Development Agency. Prior to joining the World Bank, Gilles was Director of the Department of Health Administration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal. For the last 15 years he has been involved in the training of health services managers and has also worked extensively on development projects in relation to strengthening institutional capacity in the field of management education for health (Morocco, Nicaragua, Romania, Senegal, Tunisia) and health workforce policies (Bangladesh, Lebanon). Gilles is multilingual and is comfortable speaking English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Email: gdussault@worldbank.org
Hadia Samaha Karam, Health Specialist
Hadia joins us from our sister training program, the Flagship Program on Health Sector Reform. Since joining the Bank in 1993, she has worked at WBIHD on Health Sector Reform issues. She has designed and delivered several trainings on issues such as Health Insurance, Provider Payments, Pharmaceuticals, and HIV/AIDS. She manages the program Health Sector Reform in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Her interests are social issues, HIV/AIDS, and capacity building. She has country experience in Lebanon, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, and Senegal. Email: hsamaha@worldbank.org
Tom Merrick, Former Senior Population Advisor and now Consultant You’ve met Tom before but he has news to share. In June, Tom retired from his position as the World Bank’s Senior Population and Reproductive Health Advisor in May of this year only to join us the following week (lucky us)! Tom has been working with the Adapting to Change Program from its beginning as a series of regional pilot courses in 1998-99 in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Senegal and Kenya that led up to the first Global Core Course in Washington in 1999 and to the present. We hope that we can continue to work with Tom for many more years. Email: tmerrick@worldbank.org
Marguerite Monnet, Human Resources Development Specialist/Trainer
Marguerite is a clinical psychologist by training and is a human resources development specialist focusing on gender and reproductive health. She is a trainer and a group facilitator who specializes in participatory methods. Her work over the past ten years with the World Bank has encompassed various topics including grassroots management training (GMT), strategic planning for NGOs, artisans and entrepreneurs, and girls’ education. Prior to this work, Marguerite taught at the University of Dakar in Senegal and has her own consultation firm as a clinical psychologist. Email: mmonnet@worldbank.org
Laura Raney, Human Resources Economist and Evaluation Officer
Laura is an economist and demographer and works in the areas of program evaluation and knowledge management. She has worked for the World Bank for over nine years on the evaluation of health programs, health finance, girls’ education, and gender. Laura has also worked with USAID and Abt Associates, and has country experience in Mali, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Yemen. Email: lraney@worldbank.org
Elizabeth Szollosi, Website Manager
Elizabeth joins us from our sister training program, the Flagship Program on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing (www.healthflagship.org). Her interest is website technology and development of web-based distance learning platforms. Elizabeth is the force behind the newly designed website and its many improved features. She also continually updates our website to reflect our activities and to make it more user friendly. Email: eszollosi@worldbank.org
Yuuki Suehiro, Knowledge Management Officer
Yuuki has been working with us since February, when she was in her last term at Johns' Hopkins University School of Public Health. She graduated in May with a Master's degree in Health Science, International Health. Her concentration was community health and health systems management, and she interned with UNFPA in Cambodia on evaluations of "reproductive health education and community outreach program" for 5 months last year. Now Yuuki works on knowledge management activities, sharing our knowledge and experiences both internally and externally. As a part of these activities, she intends to make the document library on our website (http://www.reprohealth.org/library.php) more useful with the updated information such as various papers, presentations and journal articles that have been used in our training activities worldwide, or are of related interest. Email: ysuehiro@worldbank.org
III. Bank Strengthens Population and Reproductive Health Program through New Appointees
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Elizabeth Lule as the World Bank’s new Population and Reproductive Health Advisor. Ms. Lule, a Ugandan national who formerly served as Pathfinder International's Regional Vice President for Africa for the past nine years, replaced Tom Merrick, who retired from the World Bank at the end of May. At Pathfinder, Ms. Lule was responsible for managing a $13 million program to address issues of population growth, unmet need for family planning coupled with spiraling STI and HIV transmission, and lack of management capacity of local implementing partners. As a member of Pathfinder's Senior Management team, she also participated in oversight of programs in Latin America, Asia and the Near East, as well as collaborative work with such agencies as USAID, UNICEF, UNAIDS, WHO, UNIFEM and a large number of NGOs. Prior to joining Pathfinder, Elizabeth was program manager for USAID's population program in Nigera, where she had earlier served as technical manager for USAID's Family Health Services Project. Ms. Lule has also worked as consultant for UNESCO, Sida, ILO, The World Bank and UNFPA. She was head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Swaziland from 1981-1986. She holds a M.Sc. in Demography from the University of London. In addition to English, she speaks French, Swahili and several other African languages.
We would like to also welcome Khama Odera Rogo who has just joined the Bank as Sector Lead Specialist for Population/Reproductive Health for the Africa Region. Dr. Rogo, a Kenyan national, has a wide-ranging experience in health -- clinical, administrative, policy and academics -- gained during more than two decades of active engagement in health care provision, ranging from the community to the international level. An Obstetrician and Gynecologist with sub-specialization in Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Rogo studied in Kenya, Sweden and the USA. He taught for many years at the University of Nairobi and has been an examiner and lecturer in many institutions in Africa, Europe and the US. Dr. Rogo has published extensively from his research on different aspects of Reproductive Health, especially on Family planning, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Safe motherhood and Reproductive tract cancers. He is the founder of The Center for the Study of Adolescence in Nairobi and was until recently Chairman of the National Council for Population and Development in Kenya and President of the Kenya Medical Association. Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Rogo consulted widely for major bi- and multilateral players in the field, as well as for private foundations and NGOs. His leadership and skills have been put to practical use in the formulation of diverse RH policies for several African governments, the OAU and ECA. He continues to serve as technical advisor to both UNFPA and WHO where he has been member of the Gender Advisory Panel for the last 6 years. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for African Family Studies (Nairobi), PATH (Seattle) and continues to serve on the Advisory Board of the population program of The David and Lucille Packard Foundation (Palo Alto, California). Before joining the Bank Dr. Rogo was with IPAS as Vice President for Africa and Medical Affairs.
IV. The Third Adapting to Change Global Core Course 10-27 September 2001
The Third Adapting to Change Global Core course will be held in Washington, D.C. 10-27 September 2001. The overall goal of the training is to improve population and reproductive health outcomes in client countries by strengthening the skills and capacity of key actors to make their population and reproductive health programs more efficient, equitable and financially sustainable. The course objectives are to increase participants’:
- Understanding of how the changing international and national policy environment impacts on their work in population and reproductive health;
- Knowledge and skills that they will use to deliver population and reproductive health services in their country in more efficient and equitable ways;
- Strategic thinking and ability to ensure that health sector reforms help rather than hinder improvements in population and reproductive health outcomes in their countries; and
- Capacity to develop action plans that apply course material, knowledge and tools to an issue they face currently in their work.
The course is designed for senior government officials, particularly from ministries of Health, Education, Women’s Affairs, Labor, Population and Welfare, and Finance and/or Planning, as well as representatives of NGOs, private sector organizations, the donor community, and others working in the field of population, reproductive health and health sector reform, including World Bank staff. The subsidized fee for the three week course is US$2,100 and participants are expected to cover the full cost of their travel, subsistence, and hotel expenses.
For more information please download the course brochure and application from our website, http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/healthandaids/ or send your e-mail request to Ms. Laurence Sage, Admissions Officer, World Bank Institute at lsage@worldbank.org The deadline for registration was 15 July 2001. There are a small number of spaces still available so act now if you are interested in sending in an application. Priority will be given to countries that have been successful in assembling country teams of approximately three to five participants.
V. Courses on New Agendas for Poverty Reduction Strategies: Integrating Gender and Health/ Genre et Santé: Nouvelles approches en matière de stratégies de réduction de la pauvreté
The Adapting to Change Program has just completed delivery of a distance learning (DL) course entitled "New Agendas for Poverty Reduction Strategies: Integrating Gender and Health" ("Genre et Santé: Nouvelles approches en matière de stratégies de réduction de la pauvreté"). Delivered in eight African countries, this course was offered as a weekly 4.25 hour session for eight weeks through the Global Development Learning Network Distance Learning Centers (DLCs). The purpose of the course is to raise awareness of the links between gender inequalities, health and poverty. The course was aimed at high level officials and policy makers working in national governments, local and international NGOs, international agencies, academic institutions and World Bank staff. It was also highly recommended for government officials, NGOs, Bank staff and others involved in developing Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) for their countries.
The course explores the critical linkages between poverty, gender inequality and health, and their key policy issues and implications. The aim of this course is to assist countries in analyzing, designing, and developing better health policies and programs which reduce gender-based inequality particularly for members of PRSP teams to enhance their understanding of these integration issues. The objectives are to:
- Identify the critical linkages between poverty, gender inequality and health, and their key policy issues and implications;
- Define policy options and strategic choices for better health that take explicit account of these linkages; and
- Specify policies, programs and projects in various sectors that will promote better health that can be integrated into national poverty reduction strategies.
The course is aimed at high level officials and policy makers working in national governments, local and international NGOs, international agencies, academic institutions and World Bank staff.
Topics include Gender, Poverty and Economic Growth in Africa, Gender and HIV/AIDS, Gender-based Violence, Education and Health: Cross Sector Implications, Gender Dimensions of Water, Transport and Energy, and Putting It All Together in a Poverty Reduction Strategy.
VI. Autumn Agenda – the Second Offering
These DL courses, which met with wide acclaim, will be repeated this autumn:
The course will be offered in French at Distance Learning Centers in, Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinée, and Sénégal beginning 9 October on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30-10:30 for four consecutive weeks through 1 November 2001 (last session tentatively 6 November due to holidays). For more information, please contact Ms. Marguerite Monnet, Email: mmonnet@worldbank.orgTel: 202 458 4286, Fax 202 676 0961.
The course will be offered in English Distance Learning Centers in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda beginning 6 November on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30-10:30 for four consecutive weeks through 4 December 2001. For more information, please contact Ms. Hadia Samaha Karam, Email: hsamaha@worldbank.org Tel: 202 473 6441, Fax: 202 676 0961.
VII. Third Annual Population and Reproductive Health Resources Fair
On 19 September 2001, we will hold the third annual Population and Reproductive Health Resources Fair. This event will take place at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. from 12:00-3:00 during the second week of the Adapting to Change Core Course.
The Population Resources Fair is an opportunity for colleagues working on a wide range of population and health issues to display work and share resources with others. Exhibitors can set up booths, hang posters, demonstrate software, distribute materials and meet others who share the same interests.
Exhibitors: NGOs, both non-profit and for profit, working in the area of Population, Health, Reproductive Health, Gender and Education are invited. Exhibitors will be chosen on a first come, first served basis. To receive an application form please contact Carrie Zwicker, czwicker@worldbank.org (202) 473-9512. All applications must be submitted by 10 August 2001.
Participants: Adapting to Change Core Course participants, Bank staff and guests from the DC-based development community and beyond.
VIII. The New Adapting to Change Website
For the past several months we have been working to upgrade our website [link here- http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/healthandaids/ While it is still a work in progress, we think you’ll agree that the new and improved site is easier to navigate and contains more updated information. Most of our course materials have been included in our Document Library (direct link here).
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