| 15-24
February, 2008
PPD
and ICMH Bangladesh organized the
International Fellowship Training
Course on Reproductive Health and
Safe Motherhood
at ICMH Premises in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dhaka,
Bangladesh —
Capacity
building is viewed as fundamentally
instrumental for efficient, result
and impact oriented implementation
of population and development programs
in order to attain ICPD Goals and
MDGs towards sustainable development
of the developing countries. PPD attaches
paramount importance in continued
capacity building of professionals
of member states engaged in implementation
of population and development programs.
Participants
of the International Fellowship Training
Course
South-South
Fellowship has been proved to be one
of the most effective and cost-efficient
modality for capacity building of
the individuals and institutions of
the member states. Since its inception
in 1998, the South-South Fellowship
program of PPD strengthened capacity
of over 400 professionals and 30 institutions
in the PPD member states. Different
member country institutions are offering
fellowship in their replicable expertise
to the professionals of other member
states. In this program the sharing,
transfer and exchange of knowledge,
experience, expertise and technology
is reciprocal. Both the professionals
of the host institution and the participants
benefit from each other in the process
of providing and receiving the training
programs.
Partners
in Population and Development (PPD)
and Institute of Child and Mother
Health of Bangladesh conducted a 10-day
International Fellowship Training
Course on Reproductive Health and
Safe Motherhood from 15 – 24
February 2008 at ICMH Compound in
Dhaka, Bangladesh. 12 international
participants from China, Indonesia,
Jordan, Pakistan, Tunisia, Thailand,
Uganda and Zimbabwe
The
sessions were conducted in three modules
such as Reproductive Health, Safe
Motherhood and Adolescents Sexual
and RH by a pool of multinational
resource persons constituted with
the most senior faculties of ICMH
and other national institutes as well
as internationally acclaimed public
health specialists based in the country.
Module
1 on Reproductive Health covered essential
topics such as population growth trends
and fertility transition at global,
regional and national level and their
policy impacts; reproductive health
concepts, definition and components;
strategies for mainstreaming of gender
perspective in RH and FP programs;
STD/RTI and HIV/AIDS prevalence trends,
policy issues and implication of HIV/AIDS
integration into RH program.
Module
2 on Safe Motherhood focused on a
wide range of issues such as concept
and content of safe motherhood initiatives;
global and regional perspectives of
safe motherhood with multi-country
experience; country experience on
safe motherhood program through community-based
approaches; skilled birth attendant
program in different countries; quality
of care in safe motherhood services
and access to safe delivery care;
emergency obstetric care (EOC) concept,
content and level; Management of unsafe
abortion and complications; role of
rural midwife, community and family
for safe motherhood program; available
tools for safe motherhood (mother-baby
package, home-based maternal record
system, risk assessment, maternal
death audit etc); reflection on ANC
service package; approach in qualitative
and quantitative coverage; reflections
on PNC and safe delivery services;
challenges and opportunities in maternity
care services; service delivery at
community level;
Module
3 on Adolescents Sexual and RH covered
topics such as global perceptions
about adolescents Sexual and RH; adolescents’
sexual behaviour in view of STD and
HIV/AIDS and reproductive health;
sexual health education for adolescents
through educational institutes, youth
programs, parents, friends and other
peer groups.
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