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Health and AIDS Newsletter, October 2001
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  Adapting to Change Learning Program
OCTOBER 2001In This Issue: - Letter from Arlette Campbell White
- Staff Announcements
- New Regional Partnership in LAC and first Network of Partners Meeting, Mexico City, 14-16 November 2001
- Feedback on our Distance Learning Course, New Agendas for Poverty Reduction Strategies: Integrating Gender and Health
New Offerings of New Agendas for Poverty Reduction Strategies: Integrating Gender and Health in French and English - Feedback on our newsletter
- The Third Adapting to Change Global Core Course, 10-27 September 2001
- Adapting to Change Workshop for UNFPA Staff, Turin, Italy, 3-7 December 2001
- S’adapter au Changement: Population, Santé de la Reproduction, Réforme du Secteur de la Santé, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, 21 janvier –le première février 2002
- Feedback on the Impact of Our Training
- New Readings and Announcements
- “Strategies to reduce maternal mortality worldwide”
- PLANetWIRE
- Dealing with Advocacy – A Practical Guide
- How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe
I. Letter from Arlette Campbell White
Dear Friends,
I would like to welcome you to this edition of the Adapting to Change Electronic Newsletter. As I write this letter to you, the usual pleasure I feel in telling you about the achievements of our program in the last two months is clouded by the tragic events of 11 September. As well as shocking us in the wider sense, as anyone must be who abhors senseless acts of terrorism against innocent people, it affected us very personally as we had just started the second day of our three-week global Core Course. The 65 participants and our Adapting to Change team rose to the occasion magnificently and are to be congratulated in the way that they all responded to the crisis. More on the course further in the newsletter. Let us remember that if this conflict escalates, as seems inevitable, it is our key target group of the poorest of the poor, and in particular, women and children who are most vulnerable and likely to suffer. I hope we can make even stronger efforts to support each others’ work in the months to come. We have several exiting activities to share with you. First, we are happy to announce the initiation of a new regional partnership in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Currently, we have a strong regional partnership in Francophone West Africa, and the second regional French-language Core Course will be in January 2002. We are also collaborating with UNFPA to deliver a one week version of our global Core Course to UNFPA staff this December. Other activities include the expansion of the popular and highly praised distance learning course on gender, health and poverty in Africa, in French and in English. Under New Readings we are happy to share an excellent paper on “Strategies to Reduce Maternal Mortality” by Jerker Liljestrand. We hope this issue of our newsletter finds you well, and we welcome your input and feedback. Best regards,
Arlette Campbell White and the Adapting to Change Program Team
II. Staff Announcements
Arlette will be co-managing an important new training program on HIV/AIDS. The Leadership Program on AIDS is aimed at leaders or potential leaders in AIDS; persons who are well placed to influence societal behavior; those who are committed to better health outcomes in their countries; and those who are placed in positions or on career tracks toward positions in which they will improve the quality and effectiveness of AIDS policies and programs. The Program’s overarching goal is to contribute to decreasing HIV transmission and to mitigating the adverse consequences of AIDS. WBI's Leadership Program on AIDS will enable leaders to be more effective change agents by equipping them with the knowledge and analytical tools as well as the communications and advocacy skills to address critical AIDS issues in their countries and to continue their learning through on-going networking and exchanges of experience using WBI's global distance learning capacity. The program’s primary focus will initially be on Africa and South Asia, with efforts in the Caribbean, East Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and the remaining regions as demand dictates. The program will be carried out in full partnership with country clients, UNAIDS, bilateral and multilateral donors, researchers and practitioners, business leaders and the NGO community. She will still continue to manage the Adapting to Change Program. For more information contact Arlette Campbell White (Email: awhite1@worldbank.org, Tel: 202 473 3301, Fax: 202 522 0638). We will shortly have a website that will be accessible from The Adapting to Change website at http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/healthandaids. Keep an eye out for it! We are very sorry to announce two departures. Carrie Zwicker will be leaving us on 5 October to move onto a career in community-based work. Carrie was instrumental in helping to launch the Francophone Africa Program and will be sorely missed by her colleagues here and in the region. Eugene Boostrom has retired after many years in the Bank. Tom Merrick will take over Eugene’s work on the LAC Regionalization. It will be very strange without Eugene and we wish him all the best for his retirement. On a happy note, we’re please to tell you that our “Gender, Health and Poverty” program will be managed by Hadia Samaha Karam.
III. New Regional Partnership in LAC and first Network of Partners Meeting, Mexico City, 14-16 November 2001
The Adapting to Change Program is collaborating with PAHO, UNFPA and several other bilateral and NGO partners to develop a new network of partners in the Latin America and Caribbean region. A three-day partnership meeting is planned for 14-16 November in Mexico City. The workshop will discuss the special learning needs of regional audiences and decide how the learning program can be adapted to serve these needs. It will also agree on partners' roles and responsibilities for preparation and delivery of a regional course during 2002. For more information contact Tom Merrick (Email: tmerrick@worldbank.org, Tel: 202 473 6762, Fax: 202 522 0638).
IV. Feedback on our Distance Learning Course ‘New Agendas for Poverty Reduction Strategies: Integrating Gender and Health’
“The training offered through distance learning on Gender, Health and Poverty was wonderful. I learnt a great deal and thus got deeper insight.” -Ms. Wubitu Abere Woldesemayat, World Vision Ethiopia
V. New Offerings of ‘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 Learning Program announces the second offering 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"). 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 for four consecutive weeks up to and including 6 November 2001. In addition, the course will be offered in English through Distance Learning Centers in Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda beginning 7 November on Tuesdays and Thursdays for four consecutive weeks up to and including 4 December 2001. 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 those working on their countries’ Poverty Reduction Strategy Process (PRSP) teams, to enhance their understanding of these issues and how to integrate them into their work. 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. For more information or to register for the Francophone course, please contact Ms. Marguerite Monnet (Email: mmonnet@worldbank.org, Tel: 202 458 4286, Fax 202 676 0961). For the Anglophone course, please contact Ms. Hadia Samaha Karam (Email: hsamaha@worldbank.org, Tel: 202 473 6441, Fax: 202 676 0961).
VI. Feedback on our newsletter
The following extract is from an e-mail we recently received from Daniela Colombo, AIDOS President. We are very pleased when we get this sort of feedback as it helps us to know whether or not we're providing a useful service for our colleagues. “First of all let me thank you for the excellent electronic newsletter that is giving us a wealth of useful information. AIDOS (The Italian Association for Women in Development) is a small development NGO with headquarters in Rome. One of our main fields of activity is gender and reproductive and sexual health and we have been working in various developing countries on setting up health counseling centers for women with an integrated/holistic approach. We are the lead agency for a gender and RH program under the EC/UNFPA Asia Initiative on RH and have recently produced a training manual, in collaboration with the Women's Health Project of the Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg, South Africa), bearing the title "Reproductive Health for All: Taking Account of Power Dynamics between Men and Women", which is being translated and adopted in six Asian countries. We have been active also in the sector of FGM giving training to national organizations for conducting training/advocacy campaigns. In July we held a TOT course at the ILO Training Center in Turin and are finalizing a multimedia training package in French: "Mutilations génitales Féminines: une question de rélations entre hommes et femmes, droits humains et santé.” Aidos_Italy@Compuserve.Com
VII. The Third Adapting to Change Global Core Course, 10-27 September 2001
The Third Annual Adapting to Change Global Core Course on Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform went remarkably well, though all involved were stunned and saddened by the 11 September tragedy in Washington and New York. The course took place 10-27 September. Some of our resource persons were unable to come due to the difficulties in transportation, and we had to handle quite a few sessions without the originally planned presenters. However, drawing on in-house talents, teamwork and good prior communications with presenters, and blessed with the participants’ active involvement, most sessions were held as planned. Thanks to the willingness of participants to be flexible, sessions missed on 11 September were worked back into the already busy schedules of the remainder of the week, so that we were back on schedule at the start of the second week. Sixty-five participants attended from 29 countries, representing ministries of health, universities, and nongovernmental organizations, etc. Donors and partner institutions were also represented, including UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, USAID, CIDA, and the World Bank. All these participants brought their skills, experiences and wisdom together throughout the course through their impressively active participation, which contributed a lot to the success of the Third Adapting to Change Global Core Course.
VIII. Adapting to Change Workshop for UNFPA Staff, 3-7 December 2001 in Turin, Italy
We will offer a Workshop on Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform for UNFPA representatives, deputy representatives, Country Support Team (CST) staff and national program officers in Turin, Italy 3-7 December 2001. The intention is to provide a one-week version of the Core Course specifically tailored to UNFPA needs, in particular encompassing gender and reproductive rights, poverty, economics, tools for delivering reproductive health, and health sector reform issues with an expanded section on sector-wide approaches. For more information please contact Arlette Campbell White at awhite1@worldbank.orgor Neela Jayaratnam at jayaratnam@unfpa.org. You can also get information, including the concept paper and agenda, from the link on our website.
IX. S’adapter au Changement: Population, Santé de la Reproduction, Réforme du Secteur de la Santé, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, 21 January - 1 February 2002
The second Francophone Africa Adapting to Change Core Course on Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform will take place 21 January - 1 February in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. This course will be conducted in French. It is organized in collaboration with the Francophone Network of African Partners in Population and Reproductive Health. The course objectives are to improve population and reproductive health outcomes in Francophone Africa by: - providing participants with an understanding of the changing national and international policy and program environment for their work in population and reproductive health;
- sharing knowledge and tools that help participants effectively deliver reproductive health services in their countries; and
- informing participants working in health systems about how the delivery of reproductive health is influenced, and can be supported by, health sector reforms.
The Francophone Network is led by a Coordinating Committee and Secretariat with the aim of building regional and institutional capacity in the areas of population, reproductive health and health sector reform. The Coordinating Committee is chaired by Professor Issakha Diallo of the Institut de Santé et Développement (ISED) at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal. The Secretariat is led by the Centre d'Etudes de la Famille Africaine (CEFA), Togo and the Centre Africain d'Etudes Supérieures en Gestion (CESAG), Sénégal. The course is designed for French-speaking West and Central African public and private sector professionals involved in the financing, planning, implementation, and evaluation of reproductive health services in WB client countries; staff from the WB, donor agencies, international organizations, and NGOs who are working with countries to implement the reproductive health approach called for in the ICPD Programme of Action; trainers from regionally-based training and research institutions working in population and reproductive health who conduct training in this area, and wish to strengthen their capacity to do so; and academics and researchers working in the areas of reproductive health, public administration, or the social sectors. If you would like information on this course or to be considered as an applicant please contact Mamadou Dicko (mdicko@cefa.café.tg) or Issakha Diallo (idiallo@ised.sn). Please see our website for the agenda and training materials (in French) at http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/healthandaids
X. Feedback on the Impact of Our Training
The following excerpt is from an e-mail we recently received from Gaston Sorgho, formerly a Health Specialist at a World Bank Regional Office and currently on leave of absence to complete his Ph.D. at Harvard University. During his time at the Ivory Coast Bank Office, Gaston worked with many of our client country participants, and has himself trained on many of our courses. Dear Arlette, It was with great pleasure that I was associated as a task-team leader and trainer for the Adapting to Change Program’s training courses on "Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform" and "Gender, Health and Poverty". In my point of view, these courses are filling a gap in the actions of the Bank in the field. Indeed, the Bank in its operations promotes reforms and policy changes in the health sector, but up to now, it was often difficult for the clients (officials of the borrowing countries) to perceive and understand exactly what the Bank was discussing with them. Consequently, the dialogue was difficult and the results were disappointing to some extent. This happened because there was a gap existing between the vision and knowledge of the Bank and that of many among its clients. The impact of these courses on the field is concrete in Côte d'Ivoire: (i) The World Bank Office in Abidjan organized, together with the Centre Africain de Management et Perfectionnement des Cadres (a regional training institute within Cocody University in Abidjan), a training session for the 15 high level officials entitled to play key roles at the Ministry of Health in the recent Government. The participants included university professors and experts in medical specialties who are short of understanding/knowledge in Public Health. (ii) Many officials from United Nations Agencies as well as other cooperating agencies who took part to the training acquired a better understanding of the connotation of the Bank’s dialogue in the countries. In the case of Côte d’Ivoire, one main impact of this training is that at present, I have a better dialogue and cohesion in the field with UNDP and WHO due to the fact that the staff have undertaken these two training courses. (iii) The regionalization of the "Population, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform" course in sub-Saharan Africa has gathered together many institutions that formerly ignored one another although they shared the same interests. These institutions that belong to the Francophone Network are integrating the course content into their own training programs. Additionally, the network is growing, as many other institutions in the region have rushed to request their registration in the Francophone Africa Network. Congratulations to WBI and to your teams for those two courses. Gaston Sorgho, World Bank Resident Mission, Ivory Coast
XI. New Readings and Announcements
“Strategies to reduce maternal mortality worldwide”
by Jerker Liljestrand, MD, PhD, Principal Health Specialist, The World Bank.
This article evaluates the recent developments in maternal mortality reduction (MMR), starting with the intriguing topic of measurement issues, thereafter analyzing health system strategies - broader and more specific-, and ending by discussing maternal health care in its societal context, including issues of violence and rights. New developments in malaria, nutrition, violence and HIV/AIDS in relation to maternal health are highlighted, as well as measurement issues. MMR reduction is also being promoted today by using a human rights approach. You can access the report from our electronic library on our website here or request a copy of the article in Word by sending an e-mail to Eszollosi@worldbank.org PLANetWIRE www.PLANetWIRE.org is a newsroom for journalists who want the latest information about international family planning, population, reproductive health and the environment. PLANetWIRE provides reporters with facts, figures and information from organizations and government agencies examining international population and reproductive health trends and their implications, and other resources, to provide background on these issues. A bi-weekly media analysis is available by e-mail from www.PLANetWIRE. E-mail your subscription request to popmedia@ccmc.org. To see the most recent media analysis from September, go to:http://www.planetwire.org/details/1883Dealing with Advocacy – A Practical Guide The Information and Communication Network (ComNet) has just published the third publication of its capacity building guide series, Dealing with Advocacy – A Practical Guide, written by Joke van Kampen. It contains detailed chapters on the need for NGOs to deal with advocacy, how to develop an advocacy strategy, the advantages of forming coalitions and how to incorporate advocacy into your everyday work. Capacity Building Series: All three guides - Dealing with Media, Advanced Dealing with Media and Dealing with Advocacy - are an integral component of the ComNet's strategy to strengthen the capacity of organizations in South East Asian countries to carry out awareness creation at a local level. All three guides are available at http://www.asia-initiative.org/ If you would like a printed copy of any of the Guides or more information about ComNet send an e-mail to rhi_info@asia-initiative.org
XII. How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe
Please circulate this message to other interested people and encourage them to register for their own copy. This newsletter, as well as previous issues, is also available on the here. Thank you for your interest in the Adapting to Change Program. This newsletter is published bi-monthly. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please send them to lraney@worldbank.org
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