7th Regional Course on Social Mobilization for Health and Development

The School of Public Health, University of Ghana, is pleased to announce an intensive 6-week residential certificate course in social mobilization for health and development from June 6 – July 16, 2005. The course is structured under modules, units and sessions. Each module and each unit has its specific objectives.
The course takes into account the desire of several countries in the region to have such training carried out in the African socio-cultural context. It is anticipated that the course will serve the needs of Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa in behavioural change communication for health promotion and development.

Target Group
This course is the first of its kind in Anglophone Regional Africa and is open to Development Workers, Officials in Public Health, International Health Students desiring to find job placement in Multi-national Development Agencies (MDAs) and other related health professionals such as:

Doctors Pharmacists
Engineers Midwives
Nurses Journalists
Economists Sociologists
Agriculturalists Administrators
Environmentalists Social Workers
Planners Teachers/Educationist
Bankers Vertinary Officers
Community Development Officers

Application
The course is residential and takes place every year in University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, between June and July. Deadline for submitting applications is 13th May, 2005. Application and sponsorship forms can obtained in writing or emailing to the course secretariat at the address provided at the end of this announcement.

Goal
The course aims at improving the capacity of national personnel in Anglophone Regional Africa, to respond to social mobilization needs of national development programmes.

Primary Objectives
At the end of the training, the participants will have acquired the theory and practical knowledge to enable them plan, organize , monitor and evaluate the “Communication/Social Mobilisation” components of Health and Development Projects and Programmes they are responsible for.

Secondary Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
· Propose a suitable strategy for solving a behaviour-related problem within a community;
· Identify the problems involved and the resources required for implementing change in a community;
· Draw up a systematic Social Mobilisation action plan;
· Determine the crucial points to monitor when implementing a process of change in a community and
· Evaluate the impact of activities aimed at implementing change in a community.

For More Information, Contact:
Julius Fobil
The Course Secretary
School of Public Health
College of Health Sciences
University of Ghana
P.O. Box LG 13
Legon, Ghana
TEL/FAX: (233) (21) 514604
E-mail: [email protected] [2]