The tourist site Elonda, located in the northern suburbs of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, has been hosting since this morning of Monday, September 13, 2021, the work of the training workshop for executives of the Ministry of Health and Population (MSP ) and harmonization of educational content as a prelude to the training of stakeholders in 93 health areas of the 2020-2021 Operational Strategy, jointly adopted and implemented by the Ministry of Health and Population and the Office of World Health Organization (WHO) in Congo.
The work of this workshop follows on from the recommendations of the joint planning workshop for priority activities for the second semester of the 2020-2021 operational strategy, held in Ouesso in the Sangha department from July 12 to 16. This work was officially opened by Dr Ludovic Gnekoumou, Technical Advisor representing the Minister in charge of health and population, in the presence, among others, of Prof. Germain Monabeka, Director General of Health Care and Services (DGSSSa), by Dr Hamadou Nouhou, Program Coordinator at the WHO office in Congo, delegate of the Resident Representative, Dr Lucien Manga.
The workshop aims to strengthen the pedagogical skills of managers at the central level, with a view to building a pool of trainers and supervisors of actors at the operational level in the areas of local governance and the provision of care. Specifically, it will make it possible to: i) develop the learning objectives of decentralized training; ii) identify and list the training materials by module; iii) adapt the training modules to be given by area in the form of a trainer’s manual; iv) determine or estimate the duration of training by theme and by module; v) develop the pedagogical approach to be adopted during decentralized training.
To this end, Dr Nouhou, in his remarks for the occasion, specified: “this training will allow trainers to acquire the tools necessary to train the actors of 93 health areas on the 4 priority areas which are: the minimum package of activities, drug management, epidemiological surveillance and health information system and community participation in order to increase health care and services ”.
For his part, Dr Gnekoumou recalled the Congo’s adherence to the implementation of the “Triple billion” objectives defined within the framework of the thirteenth General Work Program of the WHO, and which places particular emphasis on strengthening the optimal functioning of the integrated district health system. He also recalled the orientation of the Minister in charge of health and population, on the need to fill the void in normative documents relating to the development of health areas as part of improving the quality of providing care, strengthening community participation and managing resources including drugs.
He concluded his remarks by indicating the expectation by the Cabinet of the Minister of two deliverables: “the internalization and harmonization of the educational approaches of the trainers of the actors who will be deployed in the next few days at the operational level, as well as the production of documents. teaching in the targeted areas (establishment or strengthening of community participation bodies, management of health information, including epidemiological surveillance, financial management including management of drugs and PMA) ”./-
Source: World Health Organization. Africa