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Egypt
is a founder member of PPD and joined
the alliance in 1994.
Egypt was the site of the 1994 ground
breaking ICPD and its Programme of
Action.
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PPD
in collaboration with Ministry of
Health, Egypt organized an International
Workshop on Real Life Experience Sharing
on Consulting for Reproductive Health
during 02-03 July 2007 in Cario.
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Cairo
Demographic Center (CDC) offered 5
one-year fellowships to PPD for 2007
academic session on “General
Diploma in Demography”.
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The
Cairo Technical Office (CTO) also
hosted the PPD’s “Programme
Preview Workshop” during 17-20
September 2002, presenting the success
stories in the implementation of reproductive
health programmes in 16 countries
worldwide, Tunisia, Morocco, Mexico,
Colombia, China, Bangladesh, India,
Thailand, Vietnam, Panama, Ecuador,
Honduras, Dominican Republic, Venezuela,
Peru and Egypt.
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Egypt
played a crucial part in establishing
the Arab Network for South-South cooperation
in population and reproductive health
in 2001 with members from Jordan,
Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Sudan,
and Yemen in addition to PPD member
countries, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt.
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Egypt
boasts a number of highly recognised
interregional training institutions
in population and related fields such
as the Regional Centre for Training
in Family Planning and Reproductive
Health (RCT), the International Islamic
Centre for Population Studies and
Research and the Cairo Demographic
Centre (CDC). The CDC pursues a full-time
programme of training, research and
technical assistance and offers a
10-month certificate course as part
of the Global Programme of Training
in Population and Sustainable Development
sponsored by UNFPA from 1993 to 2000.
The Centre ran a series of training
courses under the PPD GLP: Quality
of Care in Reproductive Health (3-18
June 2001), Strategic Leadership and
Management in Reproductive Health
in Developing Countries (14-29 October
2001) and Communications and Advocacy
in Developing Countries (7-22 April
2002).
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Egypt
established the Cairo Technical Office
in 2000 to provide technical assistance
to the MENA region and neighbouring
collaborating countries. The CTO implemented
14 international training courses
for 145 participants from 18 developing
countries in the region on:
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Policy Analysis training: -- CTO
organised 7 training courses for
72 participants from 17 Anglophone
African and Arab countries, Uganda,
Zimbabwe, Sudan, Mali, Lebanon,
Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Bangladesh,
Morocco, Gambia, Palestine, Kenya,
Tunisia, Yemen, Ghana, and Syria.
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Essentials of Health Care Quality
Management training: One training
course for 19 participants from
7 Anglophone African and Arab
countries, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Sudan,
Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan.
- Pharmaceuticals
logistics training: 5 training
courses for 66 participants from
11 Anglophone African and Arab
countries, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Sudan,
Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt,
Jordan, Oman, Tunisia, Morocco,
and Syria
- RH
Programme supervision: 1 training
course for 11 participants from
8 Anglophone African and Arab
countries, Uganda, Jordan, Sudan,
Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco,
and Palestine
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An
evaluation workshop was organised
to obtain feedback on the transfer
of knowledge and skills acquired during
CTO training and its impact on RH
quality services. It was attended
by CTO graduates, Ford Foundation,
State of Arab League, Cairo Demographic
Centre and other national institutions.
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