Leading Organizations to Achieve Health related Millennium Development Goals
DATES: November 3-21, 2008 (3 weeks)
VENUE: ESAMI Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania
FEES: US$1800 (tuition and materials)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 10, 2008 (3 weeks before commencement of the workshop)
RATIONALE
The Challenge of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Declaration is to promote a comprehensive approach and a coordinated strategy for tackling many problems simultaneously across a broad front. The Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a refection of concerns in the developing world on poor health systems and outcomes.
The Heath Related MDGs are:
- Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger with the target to cut in half the proportion of people suffering from hunger with progress measured in the reduction of underweight under-five children
- Goal 4: Reduce child mortality by ¾
- Goal 5: Reduce maternal Mortality rate by ¾
- Goal 6: To have halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases.
It is acknowledged that:
Interventions to assist people in the developing world achieve health millennium development goals are in progress. However, it requires more strategic health management and leadership initiatives to create substantial change. But again, there is a huge gap between what is know about public health problems and what is actually done to solve them (Wagstaf & Claeson, 2004)
Meeting this challenge will require:
- Having in place inspired health managers and administrators with leadership skills.
- Developing necessary human capacities at all levels necessary to effectively transform global health, through leadership and management interventions.
- Both public and private sector managers and clinical and public health practitioners to learn how to effectively mobilize teams to achieve measurable results.
- Health managers and administrators to learn how to lead others in effective public health interventions.
- Mindset shift at all levels towards leading organizations to face priority health challenges and achieve desired results.
- Acquisition and application of practical skills of scanning the health environment, mobilizing, aligning, and inspiring groups in the health fraternity in the developing world.
- Management and leadership initiatives to create change to enable stakeholders close this gap.
OBJECTIVE:
The main objective of this course is to offer participants a solid introduction to leadership practices necessary to meet the challenges of the MDGs and strategic organizational goals in health. It will create in participants an understanding of the context of the MDGs, the challenges related to the MDGs in the developing world, and the leadership and management needs in these countries. The course should eventually enable participants’ organizations and countries at large mainstream Health MDGs into National Health goals.
CONTENT:
- Overview of achievements of health related MDGs in selected countries
- Leading and managing practices for achieving MDGs in Health
- Health management and leadership policy and practice for achieving MDGs in health
- Introduction to team development for health related work
- Introduction to the leadership challenge model
- Root cause analysis tools
- Application of the challenge model in health related interventions
- Planning: from vision to action with health orientation
- Aligning and mobilizing for change to achieve better health
- Monitoring and evaluation of services towards achieving health MDGs
- Health leadership project assignment
TARGET GROUP:
Public and private sector health managers Clinical and pubic health practitioners
HOW TO APPLY:
Prospective participants should apply and be nominated using the form below or at the end of the brochure attached. Duly completed forms endorsed by an appropriate authority of the nominating organization should be forwarded to esamihq@esamihq.ac.tz or mbd@esamihq.ac.tz or one of the addresses in the brochure at least three weeks before commencement of the program
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