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I. Letter from Arlette Campbell White, Senior Population Specialist
Dear Friends,
We are very pleased to be able to reinstate the Adapting to Change newsletter after a short 6 month hiatus. Due to staffing changes and mission travel, it was not possible to issue the newsletter as often as we have in the past. So much has taken place in the world of population and reproductive health, as well as HIV/AIDS that we have had to summarize a great deal of material in this issue.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season. I hope that you are able to celebrate with family and friends. We look forward to hearing from you in the New Year with news of mutual interest and issues that you would like to share with our many readers around the world.
Wishing you a prosperous and peaceful 2003.
Warm regards,
Arlette Campbell White and the Adapting to Change Program Team
II. Staff Announcements
Julian Harris
We would like to welcome our new Junior Professional Associate, Julian Harris, to the AIDS Leadership Program in the World Bank Institute. Julian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Bioethics and Health Policy from Duke University and a Master’s degree in Economic and Social History from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His Master’s thesis examined the history and politics of AIDS control efforts in Uganda. Julian speaks Spanish, French and Kiswahili, and has conducted field research in Guatemala, Tanzania and Uganda. He has also worked for Oxfam Great Britain, in the West African Regional Management Centre in Dakar, Senegal.
At Oxfam, Julian developed the organization's regional strategy for integrating AIDS into its gender, education, social protection, and humanitarian relief programs as well as a pilot AIDS prevention micro finance program targeted at high-risk sex workers in Senegal. He has also conducted policy analysis on AIDS drug policy, tobacco control in developing countries, and international research ethics for the Fogarty International Center, US National Institutes of Health. Julian’s work over the next two years will focus on the scale-up of the AIDS Leadership Program.
Sarah Guymont
We are happy to introduce Sarah Guymont who has joined our team. A British citizen, she has lived in the United States for 5 years. For many years she worked for the British Foreign Service, with postings all over the world, her last posting being to Washington DC where she was Executive Assistant to the Deputy Head of Mission.
III. Report on the Adapting to Change Learning Program on Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform Global Core Course
From 19-30 August 2002, the World Bank Institute delivered the Fourth Annual Adapting to Change Global Core Course on Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform at the UN Staff College in Turin, Italy. This was the first time that the Global Core Course was held outside Washington DC, and the change of venue proved to be advantageous for a number of reasons. First, participation in the course was cheaper than in past years because room and board in Turin as well as flights to the city from Africa and Asia were less expensive. Second, most participants found it easier to negotiate visas to Italy than did their predecessors who sought US visas. Finally, the intimacy of the campus environment facilitated increased group interaction outside the Course Sessions.
This year, there were 52 participants from 26 countries representing Ministries of Health, Population, and Interior; universities and training institutions; and non-governmental organizations. Twenty-one Bank client countries were represented by teams of participants from government and civil society. Donors and partner institutions were also represented, including the African Development Bank, CIDA, DFID, the Global Health Council, GTZ, IPPF, Ireland Aid, Marie Stopes, Save the Children, UNFPA, USAID, WHO, and the World Bank.
Based on feedback from previous courses, increased emphasis was placed on group activities that allowed participants to engage with the lecture topics and with each other in highly interactive sessions at the end of each day. These activities allowed participants to wrangle with a number of important issues including the challenges and opportunities posed by the Millennium Development Goals and the tensions between priority setting and cost analysis in the delivery of reproductive health services in reform settings. Individual instructors were also encouraged to make their sessions more interactive, and the participants responded positively to their innovative efforts at audience-engagement.
At the end of the course, participants were encouraged to identify areas of shared interest, to form Communities of Practice (COPs) around those issues, and to develop action plans to facilitate knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration. COPs were formed to cover the following topics: (1) Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS; (2) Monitoring of Maternal Mortality; (3) Stakeholder Analysis and Decentralization; and (4) Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform in Bangladesh. The World Bank Institute will provide the Communities of Practice with technical and financial support in their efforts to share and to build on the knowledge gained during the course.
Plans are already under way for the 2003 Core Course, to be held in Turin from 18 to 29 August 2003.
IV. Round Table Discussion of the Anglophone Africa Partnership for the Adapting to Change Learning Program: August 28 2002, United Nations Staff College, Turin, Italy
On August 28 2002, a round table discussion was held on the development of the Anglophone Africa Partnership for the Adapting to Change Learning Program. The discussion took place during the 2002 Adapting to Change Global Core Course on Population, Reproductive Health, and Health Sector Reform in Turin, Italy. Thirteen course participants from four Anglophone African countries were in attendance (see participant list below). The discussion served as a follow-up to a workshop held in Kampala to discuss the development of the Anglophone Africa Partnership from 18-20 February 2002.
The participants made a number of suggestions on the content of the proposed training; it was felt that key areas included the intersection of reforms, sector programs, reproductive health including adolescent health, HIV/AIDS, the role of the private sector and region-specific issues. The meeting also discussed different approaches to capacity building (such as consider building on or upgrading existing training programs rather than establishing new programs, or building up the capacity of multiple training institutions - in addition to the proposed Partnership - through training of trainers) and various delivery modes (e.g. face-to-face, DL, video, web).
Participants also acknowledged the varying needs of the Anglophone Partnership as compared to the established partnership in Francophone Africa and the tradeoffs between a single program for all of Anglophone Africa versus sub-regional programs for East, West, and Southern Africa. In conclusion, it was agreed to deliver a pilot training that draws from across the region, leaving open the possibility of sub-regional courses or networks further down the road.
See item ix. below for further news about the Anglophone Africa Partnership.
V. LAC Meeting: 16-17 October 2002
On 16-17 October, there was a two-day planning meeting of the Steering Committee for the LAC Partnership on Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform. The meeting was organized and led by FUNSALUD and the Population Council/Mexico, who have joined forces as the Secretariat for the first year's work program. The meeting was held at FUNSALUD and was attended by staff from UNFPA, PAHO, CEDES (Argentina), the Population Council and FUNSALUD. CIES (Nicaragua) and CCAP (Costa Rica), the two runner-up institutions for the Secretariat, were invited but not able to attend. The CIES representative agreed to come but had to cancel at the last minute. The goals of the meeting were to review and finalize agreements made during the initial meeting November 2001 in Mexico City on the countries/individuals would be invited to participate in the pilot, the curriculum for the two-week pilot, presenters for the pilot, and plans for the training of trainers. Two participants from the August core course in Turin (Javier Dominguez of UNFPA-Mexico and Mariana Lopez of FUNSALUD) played a key role on bringing the core-course experience into the planning process and demonstrated once again the high value of linking the core course to planning of regional partnerships. Applying the criteria agreed at the November, 2001, planning meeting, the group agreed to actively recruit teams of participants representing key players in the intersection of reproductive health and health reform from Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic. UNFPA and PAHO agreed to assist in funding participants from these countries, and all participants agreed to work with the Secretariat on recruitment and in making contact with other donors. Substantial progress was made on finalizing the proposed program, which builds on the Turin agenda with some adaptation to the LAC context (attention to the regional macroeconomic and institutional changes, poverty reduction and MDG efforts, regional concerns about reproductive rights and gender, etc.). Given the very positive experience with the structured approach to group work in Turin, the LAC partners agreed to employ a similar approach.
VI. Anglophone Regional Face-to-Face Course on: “New Agendas for Poverty Reduction Strategies: Integrating Gender and Health”, 3-7 February 2003, Arusha, Tanzania
Following the success of our first face-to-face Francophone regional course in June 2002, we are pleased to announce the launch of our first Anglophone regional face-to-face course on “New Agendas for Poverty Reduction Strategies: Integrating Gender and Health”. This course will take place at the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI) in Arusha, Tanzania, from 3-7 February 2003. The Course is aimed at high-level officials and policy makers working in national governments, national and international NGOs, international agencies, learning institutions, the World Bank, and donor agencies and is open to participants from all English-speaking African countries but specifically from the WBI focus countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
The objectives of the course are to enable participants to (i) understand the basic concept of gender issues and the critical linkages between gender, health and poverty; (ii) identify the fundamental gender-based inequalities and issues contributing to ill-health and poverty in women and society and (iii) analyze gender-based heath and poverty issues and problems, their linkages and key policy implications and actions; (iv) define and develop possibilities for improved health outcomes (policies, strategies and actions) at different levels: household, community, institutional and national); and (v) identify the critical stakeholders and their roles for improved gender-based health outcomes in poverty reduction strategies.
Upon completing the course, participants should be equipped with the knowledge and tools to clarify and address gender and health issues in comprehensive poverty reduction policies. They will understand and be able to analyze cross-sectoral linkages and synergies that are critical to alleviating poverty.
The is $500, which includes course fees, accommodation, breakfast lunch. Participants are also expected pay own round-trip ticket to Arusha, cover the cost of their dinner and other miscellaneous expenses
Please note that if in any country nominations are subject to clearance by the government, or to approval by a particular agency, WBI will assume that the applicant submitting the nomination has complied with this requirement. Final invitations will only be issued after receipt of government clearance. Unfortunately, the Gender, Health and Poverty Program is unable to offer scholarships. If your organization does not have the funds available to sponsor your participation, donor agencies and other organizations may have funds available through their projects in your own country.
Application forms are available from: Sarah Guymont sguymont@worldbank.org
Although the deadline of November 20 2002 has passed, we are still prepared to accept applications from suitably qualified applicants with funding.
VII. Report on the Adapting to Change Workshop for UNFPA Staff, 28 October – 1 November 2002 in Turin, Italy
From 28 October – 1 November, WBI staff and resource people delivered a second one-week course on reproductive health and health sector reform for UNFPA staff members. The course was requested and funded by UNFPA, who collaborated in adapting WBI's global core course curriculum to UNFPA staff learning needs. Participants in the course consisted of 36 staff members from UNFPA headquarters and field offices. Most were country representatives or deputy/assistant representatives, and many were working in settings where health reforms and/or sector-wide support for health systems were being planned or underway. The agenda for the program was an adaptation of the Adapting to Change core course curriculum, with expanded material on sector-wide approaches and the UNFPA approach to results-based management. Follow-up feedback from UNFPA has been positive, with an indication that they would like to continue working with WBI to address additional staff learning needs. Given that the five-day course compressed a lot of core-course material, together with additional sessions requested by UNFPA, into limited time slots, maintaining a participatory approach was difficult even though we were able to do more of it than expected. WBI will discuss possible future learning initiatives with UNFPA in early 2003.
VIII. Adapting to Change Workshop for WHO Staff 9-13 December 2002
From 9-13 December, WBI delivered a one-week version of the "Adapting to Change" course on reproductive health and health reform for 32 WHO staff members from headquarters and field offices. The course was held at the Eurotel in Villars, Switzerland, which is about two hours by bus or train from Geneva. WHO's reproductive health group contracted with WBI for the course, which will be delivered again in March 2002, and technical staff at WHO headquarters collaborated in the design of the course curriculum. In addition to content areas covered in the global course (the PATHWAYS framework, designing and costing essential packages, DALYs and priority setting, health economics tools, health reforms and their impact on reproductive health and rights), the course drew on experts from WHO for presentations on WHO's methodology for assessing health system performance and cost-effective health interventions. As with earlier global and specialized courses, participants provided useful feedback that will enable WBI to further improve the effectiveness of newer material, for example the stakeholder analysis methodology that was introduced during the global course in Turin last August.
IX. Forthcoming Adapting to Change Anglophone Africa Network Meeting, 30 January to 1 February 2003, Arusha, Tanzania
Following up on the meetings in Kampala in February and Turin in August, it was agreed that the first year's work program should be launched with a curriculum-planning meeting to adapt/revise the global course, followed by a training-of-trainers workshop to prepare for a pilot launch of the course, and delivery of a two-week pilot. After reviewing expressions of interest from institutions interested in serving as the host institution for the first phase of the program, we have decided to work with the Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI) based in Arusha, Tanzania. ESAMI offers excellent training capacity and has a very strong track record in working with partners, which is important if we are to develop a course that adequately addresses the cross-cutting issues involved in the intersection of health economics/ financing/reform with population, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. Plans are now being finalized for a curriculum-design workshop at ESAMI to be held from 30 January to 1 February 2003, with approximately 25 representatives from partner institutions.
X. Regional Videoconference on: Adolescent Health and Development in Africa (AHDA) – A one day dialogue of partners and the youth, The World Bank, Room MC13-121, Wednesday 19 February 2003, 08:00 to 12:00 p.m. (Washington DC time).
On 19 February a videoconference on Adolescent Health and Development in Africa (AHDA) will be held between Washington DC and 16 countries in Francophone Africa (Active countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal and Rwanda. The observer countries are: Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo Brazzaville, Congo, Democratic Republic, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Togo).
Participant groups will be varied and range from ministers to youths, and the objectives of the conference are to:
- Highlight key issues related to adolescent health and overall development trends in a global, regional and local context;
- Enable all partners to understand the strong linkages between adolescent health and development, and the specific issues and challenges in the context of the MDGs; and
- Increase the commitment and partnership between leaders, development partners and relevant stakeholders at national, regional and international levels.
This global dialogue builds on the highly successful global videoconference held on AHD for 12 Anglophone African countries which took place on 26 June 2002. It was developed as a response to the growing problems facing adolescents in all regions of the world but specifically in Africa.
At the beginning of the millennium, 1.7 billion people - more than one-quarter of the world's population of six billion - are between the ages of 10 and 24, making the group the largest ever to enter adulthood. Eighty-six percent live in less developed countries. The proportion of youth in developing countries is significantly higher than in developed countries. In many countries today, young people are growing up with less opportunities for education, health, recreation and gainful employment that would enable them to realize their full potential than was the case 50 years ago. Even in less developed countries, this generation of young people is the most urbanized in history. Indeed, in the next twenty years the percentage of urban youths will surpass rural youth and will continue to grow. These are also the countries whose economic and social prospects are bleak, and have little hope of breaking the cycle of poverty at country, community and family level.
The period of adolescence begins at puberty and ends at the culturally determined entrance to adulthood. Around the world puberty is occurring earlier and the age of marriage rising. This expanded gap, 'the bio-social gap', means that young people are facing a longer period of time during which they are sexually mature and may be sexually active before marriage. This phenomenon is new to most traditional cultures and has brought new and unfamiliar challenges which have never before been faced. These many contradictions have resulted in a global struggle to define and develop appropriate responses.
The triangle of poverty, ignorance and unyielding social structures underpins the differences in magnitude of adolescent health status and development problems between countries and regions, and the willingness of individual societies to confront the issues effectively. There is growing recognition that a large and increasing number of young people are living at the fringes of societies that neither listen to them nor care about their plight. It is estimated that up to 40 percent of young people under the age of 18 are not in school. It is also estimated that no less than 100 million young people work on the streets in menial activities, hawking, parking/washing cars, picking garbage, shining shoes or just begging, and that many of these actually live in the streets with no family or community to go to at sunset. AIDS has already orphaned more than 13 million children under the age of 15, and this figure is rising.
The past decade saw a rapid growth in, and strengthening of, networks of many organizations and individuals working in the field of AHD. Most of these organizations work at four often very distinct levels - international, regional, national, and local/community. However, in most regions of the world, especially in developing countries, there has been a lack of a focused vision, sustainable linkages and coordination between organizations and stakeholders at the various levels. Forward movement in AHD has been stifled in many countries by fear from powerful cultural, religious and political groups. This has also affected resource allocation and the quality of programs for young people. Ultimately, governments and the international community must decide whether they can afford the cost of inaction.
For more information about the videoconference, contact Laurence Sage, WBIHD (lsage@worldbank.org)
XI. Leadership Program on AIDS
Fighting the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Through Information and Strategic Communication
"Fighting the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Through Information and Strategic Communication", a learning program developed by the AIDS Leadership Program, has moved into its final phase. In the first phase, HIV/AIDS project team members from five African countries representing government, NGOs, the private sector and the media were brought together via distance learning seminars to develop strategies for addressing the communications element of AIDS programs and policy in their countries. In the second phase, in-country workshops were conducted in late October and early November with course participants in Malawi, Nigeria and Zambia, all of whom had developed communications strategies or story ideas that address various aspects of the AIDS epidemic in their countries. The project team members and journalists worked together and separately to further define and develop their strategies. Their work focused on strengthening the information environment through programs designed to increase collaboration and give voice to persons infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. New sessions on the World Bank's Multi-country AIDS Program (MAP) and on the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria updated participants on new resources available to governments and civil society for their efforts to control the epidemic. The final video conference for the Africa series was held on 21 November 2002 and participants from each of the five countries shared their work and discussed networking and next steps.
Global Dialogue for World AIDS Day 2002 on Addressing the Social Dimension of HIV/AIDS for Better Results
The course was very well received and is in demand in other African countries and in other regions that are coming to grips with the effects of stigma and discrimination on efforts to halt the AIDS epidemic. Accordingly, the course is now being developed to be developed through a face-to-face five-day workshop to be held in Sri Lanka in March 2003 for five countries from South Asia. For more details contact Tim Carrington on +1 (202) 473 8133 or through email at tcarrington @worldbank.org
Global Dialogue for World AIDS Day 2002 on Addressing the Social Dimension of HIV/AIDS for Better Results
In the country sites, speakers and audience members included representatives from youth, NGOs and other civil society organizations, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), high-level policy makers, UN agencies, foundations, the private sector, and others.
Participants shared best practices in relation to HIV/AIDS strategies — discussing where the obstacles to addressing HIV may lie, and what has worked to overcome such roadblocks. Participants and speakers included: The Rt Hon Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados; Rev Canon Gideon Byamugisha of Uganda; and Dr Alex Coutinho, Chief Executive Officer of TASO, (the AIDS support organization) and a leading NGO in Uganda; senior government officials from Barbados, China, Moldova, and Tanzania, as well as members of UN agencies and others. World Bank speakers included Ms Frannie Leautier, Vice President of WBI, Mr Callisto Madavo, Regional Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa; and Ms Debrework Zewdie, Advisor to the Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank.
The impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals and societies is undeniable. HIV/AIDS reaches into every corner of society, affecting parents, children and youth, teachers and health workers, rich and poor. The World Bank, in partnership with national governments, community leaders, people living with HIV/AIDS, foundations, non-governmental organizations, UN Agencies and the private sector, is working to roll back the spread of this global epidemic. As a forerunner to World AIDS Day, 1 December, the World Bank Institute’s Leadership Program on AIDS, and the World Bank’s Global HIV/AIDS Program and Reproductive Health and Population Thematic Group held a multi-country videoconference (VC) on 26 November to provide a forum for the exchange of experiences and best practices in the fight against AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.
Contributing towards an enabling policy environment at country level – to support circumstances in which people can break silences in order to allow people better access to institutions and programs that can address their needs—was the goal of this activity. The VC provided a forum to discuss what works best in regard to fostering an environment for development effectiveness on HIV. Informed citizens (especially youth, the next generation) and institutions can act now to strengthen continued action. The event—both the process of planning it and undertaking it—was aimed at strengthening the commitment and partnership among leaders, development partners and relevant stakeholders at national, regional and international levels.
Policy makers can plan more effectively, within available human and financial resources, if they are equipped with an enhanced understanding of the importance of regional and/or sub-regional differences, as well as a better understanding of psychosocial and gender equity aspects of HIV/AIDS. The AIDS pandemic is multi-faceted and does not discriminate. An environment of continuous learning about strategies to address HIV/AIDS will help move this effort of breaking silences along, and contribute to a healthier environment for support to countries’ HIV/AIDS strategies.
Participants from Barbados, China, Moldova, and Tanzania were joined by speakers from Thailand, Uganda, and the United States to discuss country-level experiences on this important issue.
At the country sites, speakers and audience members included representatives from youth, NGOs and other civil society organizations, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), high-level policy makers, UN agencies, foundations, the private sector, and others. Participants shared best practices in relation to HIV/AIDS strategies — discussing where the obstacles to addressing HIV may lie, and what has worked to overcome such roadblocks. Participants and speakers included: The Rt Hon Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados; Rev Canon Gideon Byamugisha of Uganda; Dr Alex Coutinho, Chief Executive Officer of TASO, the AIDS support organization and a leading NGO in Uganda; senior government officials from Barbados, China, Moldova, and Tanzania, as well as members of UN agencies and others. World Bank speakers included Ms Frannie Leautier, Vice President of WBI, Mr Callisto Madavo, Regional Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa; and Ms Debrework Zewdie, Advisor to the Bank’s Global HIV/AIDS Program.
The videoconference had two overall outputs at country level. The stakeholders participating in the VC identified key issues to be addressed on the national level in order to strengthen the country’s enabling environment for action on HIV/AIDS. They also shared strategies and best practices for overcoming stigma and discrimination at the national, sub-national and local levels. Follow-up activities are under discussion and are likely to include, inter alia, communications activities and/or subsequent meetings or activities to maintain contact among stakeholders or a follow-up videoconference at the regional or sub-regional level.
XII. New E-Learning Course on “Health Outcomes and the Poor” – 3 March – 11 April 2003.
From 24 February- 18 April 2003 WBI will launch a new course on "Health Outcomes and the Poor". This course is designed to assist PRSP authors to improve the analysis and the policies in the health sector; and to help reviewers to advise authors on how to improve the quality of health inputs into PRSPs. The overall course objective is to improve the health of the poor and vulnerable through analytical work that leads to pro-poor policies, actions and expenditures. Specifically during the course participants will learn to:
1. Explain and analyze the relationship between health and poverty;
2. Analyze and describe the role of households and communities (especially the poor) in producing good health outcomes from a poverty perspective;
3. Identify the ways in which health systems (delivery and financing) fail the poor;
4. Determine how factors typically considered outside the health sector can be critical for the health of the poor;
5. Formulate the critical relationship between life-cycle issues and health outcomes;
6. Develop or recommend pro-poor policies and actions.
The course load will be 8 hours per week, and a connection to the World Wide Web is required to take this course. The introductory course fee is $500. For more information visit the course website: http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/healthandaids/ or contact Ms Jo Hindriks at jhindriks @worldbank.org 1-202-473 6425 (tel), 1-202-676 0961 (fax)
XIII. Survey Results
In the summer of 2002, we surveyed participants of previous training courses. The purpose was to determine what technology capabilities, particularly regarding the Internet, the participants had. We also wanted to know what topics participants would want to receiving in-dept training in, and what kind of support would be helpful after taking our courses. Finally, we wanted to determine whether participants would be interested in taking in-depth courses online.
The preliminary results of the survey found that more than 90 percent of respondents can easily access a computer and the internet. The respondents greatly want further support from us. They want to receive updated information, in-depth training and follow-up courses, especially in the area of health reform, health economics, gender and HIV/AIDS, and Adolescent Health. The respondents want not only to interact with our program after the courses, but also to exchange information with other participants as well. Because they can easily access a computer and the internet, all of respondents said that they can receive our support through email, website, attached files, and distance learning. They also expressed interest in receiving online training courses on their topics of interest.
We shall be looking at the survey results in more detail to discuss how we can move forwards in meeting these needs.
XIV. Useful Websites
a. The Reproductive Health Working Group (RHWG) is a network of researchers from social and health sciences working on reproductive health. The group, which was established in 1988, adopts a multidisciplinary approach in designing, implementing, and analyzing research in the Arab countries and Turkey. Through its in-depth and comparative regional focus, the group is committed to the conceptualization and operationalization of reproductive health. Through holding meetings, by publishing books and scientific papers, and by publishing Monographs in Reproductive Health and the Policy Series in Reproductive Health, the group aims to disseminate its work to researchers, students, policy makers, program managers, health advocates and women's groups, within government and non-governmental organizations.
b. The Population Leadership Program at the University of Washington seeks to identify and notify qualified applicants for this unique program. They are currently accepting applications for the 2003-2004 program year.
The Population Leadership Program brings to the University of Washington accomplished professionals and leaders from developing countries who make population or reproductive health issues central to their careers. Twelve Fellows per year are selected in a highly competitive process. We seek applicants who have demonstrated through their accomplishments the capacity to rise to higher levels of leadership in their countries. Applicants may come from a wide range of areas and responsibilities, including those with governmental responsibility for making policy or managing programs, NGO implementation or advocacy work, political leaders committed to population and reproductive health issues, or regional or local officials moving up to broader responsibilities.
Fellows will receive round-trip airfare to the United States, tuition and fees for courses at the University of Washington, health insurance and a monthly stipend. The program includes academic coursework, professional development activities, and post-fellowship support. More information and a downloadable application can be found at their website at http://courses.washington.edu/plpsem/ Feel free to contact them if you have any questions or need additional information. Contact: elainec@worldbank.org
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