Kenya, Nairobi

The Center for African Family Studies (CAFS) is a regional collaborating centre of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its worldwide effort to improve the quality and scope of reproductive health. Launched in 1996, “Operationalising Cairo and Beijing: A Training Initiative in Gender and Reproductive Health” is a collaboration of the WHO Secretariat, Women’s Health Project of the University of Witwatersrand and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The Initiative offers a three-week core curriculum in gender and rights in reproductive health and HIV and AIDS for senior programme managers, planners, and policy-makers. The course aims to use a format of core modules and regional case-material. The content has been adapted to highlight regional priorities and current controversies in diverse countries in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and Beijing Plans of Action in the context of HIV & AIDS.

The course aims to focus on the following:

• The gender concept and reproductive health
• Gender analysis
• Gender policy approaches
• Social determinants of health
• Gender mainstreaming in RH and HIV & AIDS programmes
• Health systems analysis
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Gender and HIV & AIDS

The course aims to give participants the skills to be able to:

• Conduct gender analysis in reproductive health and HIV & AIDS
• Advocate for gender-responsive policies and programmes
• Apply gender analysis to their own health systems, examining determinants of health, health policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• Use gender sensitive research for policy and programme development.

The course is suitable for both senior and middle-level managers, planners and policy-makers. They will be individuals directly responsible for influencing or making policies to implement the MDGs and the Cairo and Beijing Programmes of Action. The course is beneficial for participants from both public and NGO sectors.

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Course fees are US$2,200.

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