Catalog of Learning Activities

WBI Program: Health Systems
Activity Title: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform
Activity ID: HNP10-01-279
   

Contact Info

Task Manager: Gaston Sorgho
Email: gsorgho@worldbank.org
Task Admin: Nene Mane
Email: nmane@worldbank.org

Date and Cost

Start Date: March 15 2010
End Date: March 26 2010
Cost: Fees Apply

Description

This course will provide state-of-the-art knowledge and skills to participants for designing and delivering more efficient, equitable, and financially sustainable reproductive health interventions in the context of health sector reforms and evolving international policies. It is targeted towards staff from governments, international organizations, NGOs, training institutions, and academics involved in health.

Objective

By the end of this course, participants will be able to: ♦ Identify technical, economic and political issues that countries face in achieving MDGs related to reproductive health and gender; ♦ Recognize the influence of health sector reform on reproductive health services and program design and delivery; ♦ Identify and prioritize reproductive health needs within their own country or client country in the context of health sector reforms; ♦ Apply tools for planning, costing, financing, and efficiently mobilizing public and private resources for health in their own country or client country; and ♦ Design an action plan for improved reproductive health services in their own country or client country.

Topic(s)

Health Nutrition and Population

Participants

Audience: staff from governments, international organizations, NGOs, training institutions, and academics involved in health

Target Country(s): World Wide

Partners: African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Pan American Health Organization, Population Council, Rotary International, United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations Development Program, United Nations Population Fund, World Bank, World Health Organization;

Site Information

Delivery Modes: Face to Face (40 Hours)

Locations:Bangkok, Thailand
 Languages: English