| 21-22
May, 2009
PPD
Partners Institutions Meeting
Nairobi, Kenya —
The
first regional meeting of PPD Partners
Institutions (PIs) for Anglophone
Africa held at Centre for African
Family Studies (CAFS), Nairobi, Kenya
from 21 May to 22 May 2009. Participants
from PIs along with representatives
from different international organizations
attended in the two days long meeting.
The meeting was inaugurated by Dr.
Boniface O’muga K’Oyugi
MBS, PPD Board Member and Chief Executive
Officer, National Coordinating Agency
for Population and Development (NCAPD)
in Kenya. Mr. Harry Jooseery, the
Executive Director of PPD addressed
this first regional meeting of PIs.
The objective of the regional meeting
is to reinforce the integration of
PPD Generic Modules (GM) into the
existing training programs of PIs.
Specifically the aims are:
-
Strengthen the Anglophone Africa
PIs Network;
- Improve
existing training programs in respect
with PPD GM;
-
Raise awareness and organize advocacy
among policy makers and other officials
for adaptation and implementation
of the GM;
-
Initiate collaboration and networking
for resource mobilization to support
short-term courses based on GM.
Anglophone
Africa PPD PIs Network composes of
the CAFS in Kenya; Cairo Demographic
Center(CDC) , Egypt; Population Studies
and Research Institute(PSRI), University
of Nairobi, Kenya; and Institute of
Statistics and Applied Economics(ISAE)
from Makerere University in Uganda.
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