The PBF Journey continues – Shimba Hills Kenya
It has been a very exciting 2014 for SINA Health and its partners such as in particular the Kenyan, Cameroon and Lesotho governments, the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, Cordaid, BEST-SD from Benin, BASP96 from Burkina Faso, the Littoral Regional Fund from Cameroon, HDP Rwanda and EGPAF Mozambique. There were during 2014 10 PBF courses with in total 284 participants including 25 participants that will attend the 42nd PBF course starting the 1st of December 2014 in Mombasa.
We would like to thank all participants for those memorable and stimulating discussions and moments in Mombasa Kenya Bay, Shimba Hills, Bobo Burkina Faso, Brazzaville, Cotonou and Ouida Benin, Kampala, etc. There were 54 participants with distinctions (20.8% of the total).
New PBF courses in 2015 are planned for:
- January 20-31, 2015 in Freetown for participants from Sierra Leone with Cordaid,
- Early March 2015 in Douala for the Cameroun government and the World Bank
- March 23 – April 4 in Cotonou Benin.
- Another English spoken course is planned for April – most likely in Mombasa.
PBF course in Bobo – Burkina Faso
One can also download the reports of the 40th PBF course in Cotonou (Rapport Cours PBF Cotonou V241014) and the 41st PBF course in Douala (Rapport du cours PBF Douala V261114).
These Cotonou and Douala reports contain fascinating information about PBF in Benin (doing well with scaling up and making the design more PBF pure) and Mali (starting up an improved pilot) as well as about Education in CAR (with good results) and the health program in Cameroon (scaling up from 4 to 7 regions) and the health program in the Central African Republic (successful implementation of PBF during the crisis).
The 1000th SINA Health course participant Nnenna IHEBUZOR
The Douala report also contains a protocol on which role PBF can play in Ebola prevention as well as how to strengthen the health systems during emergencies such as wars and natural disasters. The report also contains a questionnaire for a PBF quality review at primary schools and pre-schools.
The SINA Health team and its partners BEST –SD, BASP96, HDP Rwanda and the Regional Fund of Littoral Region wish the PBF family a very fruitful and successful 2015.
