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July, 2007
Workshop
on Real Life Experience Sharing on
Consulting for Reproductive Health
in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt —
Twenty
four professionals in the field of
population and reproductive health
from fifteen developing countries
namely Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Indonesia,
Jordan, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Pakistan,
Philippine, South Africa, Tanzania,
Thailand, Tunisia and Zimbabwe attended
the International Workshop on Real
Life Experience Sharing on Consulting
for Reproductive Health during 02-03
July 2007 in Cairo, Egypt. International
experts from USA also joined to facilitate
the sessions.
The
Opening Ceremony, which was attended
by around forty representatives from
the international agencies and senior
officials from the Ministry of Health,
Cairo, was performed by Mr. Harry
S Jooseery, Executive Director of
PPD. Among others, Dr. Safa El-Baz,
Assistant Minister of Health and Population
National Population Council, Government
of the Arab Republic of Egypt and
Prof. Dr. Nabiha Gueddana, Member,
PPD Board, and Director General National
Office of Head and Population (ONFP)
Tunisia, also spoke at the Opening
Ceremony.
Participants
of the workshop
The
workshop, supported by the Government
of the Netherlands, focused on sharing
of consulting experience, lessons
learnt and on the establishment a
network system to maintain a unified
and high standard quality service
communication among the consultants.
The
workshop ushered fruitful discussions
and new thoughts on ‘Scale and
Equity: A Bold Approach in Reproductive
Health’, a paper presented by
Dr. Martha M. Campbell, Co-Director,
Center for Entrepreneurship in International
Health and Development (CEIHD) and
lecturer, School of Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley,
USA.
Dr.
Martha M. Campbell delivering her
presentation to the participants
The
workshop also offered an opportunity
for a face to face interaction with
the participants with the renowned
international expert, Prof Dr. Malcolm
Potts, Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair,
School of Public Health, University
of California, Berkeley, USA. The
workshop was concluded by several
recommendations on sustainability
and the modus operandi on the best
utilization of the rich resource of
PPD data base.
Prof.
Dr. Malcom Potts answering question
of the participants
during the Expert Interview session
Participants
visited the Cairo Demographic Center
(CDC) on the last day of the workshop.
Mr. Abdelghany Mohamed Abdelghany
Ibrahim, the Director of CDC welcomed
the participants. Mr. Harry expressed
his appreciation to CDC for their
support and assistance to PPD. He
commended the CDC Award of Fellowship
to PPD Member states.
Participants
in front of the Cairo Demographic
Centre (CDC)
PPD
is in the process of updating its
consultants’ Database and in
the development of brochure and interactive
CD from PPD Consultant Database which
will be available shortly.
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