Technical Support

Proposal Development and Review

Scientific methods and ethics proposals review – Kenya

Member of the scientific steering committee to critically review scientific proposals.
KEMRI/Wellcome Trust, Kenya.

TB, malaria and grocery stores proposal – Malawi

Operational research proposal developed to conduct a pilot community health education project. The project aimed to improve home treatment of childhood malaria and referral of adults with chronic cough for an urban squatter settlement in Malawi. Participatory approaches applied to include village health committees, public health workers, district management teams and national level officials in all aspects of the proposal development.

DFID Knowledge Programme Malawi & LSTM, UK.

Reproductive health and primary health care proposal- Tanzania

Operational research proposal developed to determine the barriers and achievements to implementing the Cairo ICPD recommendation to integrate reproductive health services into primary health care services in Tanzania.

DFID Innovations Grant, Tanzania.

Testing a public/private health collaboration model proposal – Uganda & Zambia

Operational research project proposal developed to test a model of collaboration around HIV/AIDS and STI between the traditional and biomedical sectors in Uganda and Zambia.

European Union, Uganda and Zambia.

Community health clubs project proposal – South Africa

Community health project proposal to introduce community health clubs in a northern province of South Africa.

National Lottery of South Africa.

Partnership building in health district proposal-Malawi

Strategic proposal to create a forum to build a partnership between the public, private and voluntary health sectors in the district of Lilongwe, Malawi. The partnership aimed to develop a community health education project.

DFID TB Knowledge Programme, Malawi & UK & Norwegian Heart and Lung Association, Norway.

Technical support - Planning, Programming and Implementation

Planning a training for storekeeper and health workers – Malawi

Assisting the District Health Management Team, Lilongwe to plan the training of storekeepers, community based public and voluntary health workers TB and malaria intervention. This included the development and review of the intervention package, piloting of IEC materials and the assessment/evaluation of the activities for 3 urban squatter areas in Lilongwe, Malawi.

DFID TB Knowledge Programme, Malawi.

Planning a comprehensive public health and HIV intervention – South Africa

Implementation planned for a comprehensive public health and HIV intervention for a target population of 40 000 across 5 informal settlements and 6 hostels in inner city Johannesburg.

RHRU, Soweto, South Africa.

Planning a training of storekeepers and public health workers – Kenya

To plan for community sensitisation activities, needs assessments for training of trainers, storekeepers training workshops, monitoring and evaluation. Conducted in a rural district of coastal Kenya, alongside a team from the MOH and district health office. Included detailed work plans and budgeting support.

Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust, Kilifi, Kenya.

Planning of an intervention to train traditional healers – Zambia

Implementation planned for a project aiming to find effective ways of detecting and referring clients with symptoms suggesting sexually transmitted infections and/or HIV/AIDS while collaborating with and understanding their biomedical colleagues in Uganda and Zambia.
Institute of Public Health Uganda, Institute of Social and Economic research Zambia, Traditional Healer Association of Zambia, LSHTM and Karolinska Institutet.

Planning the training, support and implementation of volunteers – Kenya

Planning a cost sharing bed net programme with the District Health Management Team, administrative chiefs and community health groups. This included planning for distribution and storage, accounting, delegation of responsibilities and monitoring.

Population Services International (PSI), Kenya.

Planning an intervention for street children – Tanzania

Planning an intervention to address the emotional well-being of street children within the Streetwise project. Children were aged between 6 and 16 in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Poverty Alleviation Initiatives Developers Trust, Tanzania

Programming for a community based TB/Malaria intervention – Malawi

Technical assistance was given to a project steering group. Individual roles and commitments were defined. Technical assistance was also given to establish systems for community sensitisation, training, implementation and monitoring support.

DFID TB Knowledge programme, Malawi.

Programming for an institutional framework for community project – Kenya

A public/private malaria educational project was set up in the public health system. Systems were integrated within the district MOH and at national level to assist scaling up of a successful pilot project to a sustainable training programme.

KEMRI/Wellcome Trust, Kilifi, Kenya.

Programming for a institutional mobile populations programme – South Africa

Introducing an institutional mobile populations programme linking with various partners and tackling various cross cutting issues relevant to policy making.

RHRU, South Africa

Implementation of a public/private community education project – Kenya

To implement a community based health education project to improve the advisory skills of storekeepers when treating febrile children in rural district in Kenyan Coast. Included sensitisation (drama), training, monitoring and support of 300 storekeepers, technical support to trainers and planners (including budgetary) and critical review.

AMREF, Kenya & KEMRI/Wellcome Trust, Kilifi, Kenya.

Implementation of an income generating project – Malawi

To assist the District with the implementation of an income generating project with 3 village health committees inurban Lilongwe, Malawi. This included participatory strategy development, and group business plans.

Lilongwe District Health Management team & DFID TB Knowledge programme, Malawi.

Implementation of a bed net programme – Kenya

To implement a project distributing bed nets in a district PSI/MOH programme on the Kenyan Coast.

Kilifi District MOH & Population Services International, Kenya

Implementation of malaria/TB public/private project – Malawi

To implement a community health education project to improve skills of storekeepers to advise early diagnosis of TB and treatment of febrile children in an urban squatter area of Lilongwe, Malawi.

DFID TB Knowledge Programme, Lilongwe, Malawi and LSTM, UK.

Implementation of a nutrition out reach programme – India

To implement of a nutrition community health outreach programme to displaced hill tribes in South India. This include mobile hospitals and income generating acitivities.

Niligiri Adavasi Tribe Programme, South India.

Implementation of a public/private health partnership – Malawi

To implement a health partnership between community-based organisations with the public, private and voluntary sector in Lilongwe district to assist ownership of a new national TB health promotion strategy in Malawi.