CAFS Courses

KM102: Knowledge Management for Health and Development Organizations (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)    (21/11/2011-25/11/2011)

An organization’s knowledge is one of its most important assets. One of the biggest challenges within an organization is how to manage, document, use, and share the knowledge that employees have. Institutional knowledge is frequently used ineffectively, misplaced, or lost. As a result, organizations lose time and productivity, and use…

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LM202: Leadership and Management of Reproductive Health, and HIV & AIDS Programmes    (24/10/2011-04/11/2011)

The increasingly fast moving and competitive environment we face in the 21st century demands greater leadership and management from people in order to make organizations prosper. Various factors inside and outside the organization affect performance and contribute to an organisation’s results. Throughout Africa, dynamic leaders and managers of RH and…

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OL202: Organizational Development and Learning    (17/10/2011-21/10/2011)

For public and private sector agencies to improve their programmes and services, strategies and systems for learning and internalizing best practices and lessons learnt must be in place. Agencies in the non-profit sector are extremely “knowledge intensive” and rely heavily not only on the knowledge of their employees but the…

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AD202: Developing Advocacy Strategies for Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV & AIDS    (01/08/2011-05/08/2011)

Advocacy has become a requisite tool for reproductive health and HIV & AIDS programme managers and service providers throughout the continent. As competition for scarce resources increases, advocacy skills become important tools in influencing the decision-making process regarding resource allocation.

This course provides hands-on experience in designing, developing…

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ME202: Advances in Impact Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation of Reproductive Healh and HIV&AIDS;    (18/07/2011-22/07/2011)

Reproductive Health (RH) and HIV & AIDS programmes must show impact to ensure that the programs and services are effectively making a difference. Managers of these programs must be held accountable, show impact, and carefully select areas of investments in order to maximize the impact of scarce resources. Thus, impact…

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ME101: Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation of Reproductive Health and HIV & AIDS Programmes    (11/07/2011-15/07/2011)

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) seeks to determine if health and development programs are on track and if they are making a difference. For an M&E system to succeed, programmatic staff and service providers must understand what M&E is, how a proper M&E system functions, how to use the various tools,…

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IN202: Integration of Reproductive Health/Family Planning (RH/FP) and HIV/AIDS (Nairobi, Kenya)    (06/02/2012-17/02/2012)

The programme of action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) called on all countries to provide a full range of sexual and reproductive health in an integrated manner within the context of the primary health care system. In order to support the health care system to…

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IN202: Integration of Reproductive Health/Family Planning (RH/FP) and HIV&AIDS; (Abuja, Nigeria)    (20/06/2011-01/07/2011)

The programme of action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) called on all countries to provide a full range of sexual and reproductive health in an integrated manner within the context of the primary health care system. In order to support the health care system to…

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BCC202: Advances in Behavior Change Communication    (06/06/2011-10/06/2011)

Promoting positive behaviour change is a complex process requiring a thorough understanding of what motivates people to adopt or resist new behaviours. Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) approaches recognise that presenting facts alone does not guarantee behaviour change.  Individuals are greatly influenced not only by their own knowledge about issues but…

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